Safety

American Trucking Associations has asked the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to prevent changes Boston recently made to its hazardous materials routing designations and permitting process.

Teamsters union members employed at car hauler Performance Transportation Services went on strike against the company Monday to enforce the union’s bargaining table demands, the union said.

Global Positioning System location-finding and navigation services are generating increasing revenue as the satellite-based technology is embedded in a wider range of mobile devices, according to a report from the European firm ABI Research.

Connecticut’s truck inspections fell 20% to about 18,600 in 2007, compared with a year earlier, the Hartford Courant reported.

The regional government of the Portland, Ore., area is backing a new Interstate 5 bridge over the Columbia River, the Associated Press reported.

The U.S. average diesel price took a break last week from its dizzying climb, dipping 1.6 cents a gallon to $4.707, the Department of Energy reported.

Canadian transportation firm Mullen Group Income Fund said Thursday it would buy the transport unit of Essential Energy Services Trust for C$135 million.

American Trucking Associations said Wednesday that it supports the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission for taking steps toward increasing transparency of the energy futures markets.

An index of the U.S. economy’s service sector slipped in May from a month earlier but continued to show expansion, the Institute for Supply Management said Wednesday.