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American Trucking Associations said it supports Ontario’s plan to mandate speed limiters set at 105 kilometers — or about 65.2 mph — on all trucks but urged the province to alter its regulation to avoid conflicts with potential U.S. rules.

California’s attorney general filed lawsuits against two small trucking companies Friday on grounds they allegedly deprived drivers of benefits and may have cheated the state out of payroll taxes, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday.

Washington state has pulled the plug on wireless Internet access highway rest areas across the state, the Associated Press reported.

As the two primary U.S. political parties concluded their presidential nominating conventions and formally began the fall campaign, trucking executives said each candidate offered pluses and minuses for the industry.

The color for 2009 medium- and light-duty trucks is green, as in environmentally friendly. There are no major changes to designs for the 2009 model year; like heavy-duty trucks, the next major changes will occur with the 2010 model year as manufacturers adapt to the next round of diesel emission standards.

The average price of retail diesel in the United States dipped 2.4 cents a gallon last week to $4.121, the seventh straight decline, even as Hurricane Gustav reached the Gulf Coast, the Department of Energy reported.

The federal government will provide $4 million in emergency relief funds to Louisiana and Mississippi to help repair roads and bridges damaged by floods caused by Hurricane Gustav, U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters said Friday.

U.S. consumer confidence this month rose by the most in four years in September, according to the Reuters/University of Michigan’s preliminary monthly consumer sentiment index, released Friday.

The New Jersey Turnpike Authority asked Gov. Jon Corzine (D) to approve a series of toll increases on two of the state’s major toll roads to pay for infrastructure improvements, the Associated Press reported.