Transportation Compliance News
Transport Topics government and regulatory coverage keeps managers of a highly-regulated industry aware of the policy decisions that can shape their businesses. Covering both the legislative and regulatory aspects of policy-making, at both the state and national levels, the news in this category includes looks at infrastructure, hours of service, emissions rules, funding measures, leadership appointments, and more. Readers can follow what鈥檚 happening in Congress, at the Department of Transportation and the Federal Motor Carrier Administration, and in state and local governments.
Business Inventories Gain 0.2% in January
U.S. business inventories rose 0.2% in January, but sales declined by the most in four months, the Commerce Department said Tuesday.
March 13, 2007Retail Sales Rise 0.1% in February
U.S. retail sales rose 0.1% in February, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday.
March 13, 2007New Hill Faces Emerge After November Shake-up
WASHINGTON 鈥 After more than a decade in the minority 鈥 and the past six years relegated to near-obscurity behind a powerful Republican majority and a Republican White House 鈥 Democrats swept into power in November, capturing both houses of Congress.
March 13, 2007Canada Cartage Reports Profitable First Public Year
Canada Cartage Diversified Income Fund said Monday that its revenue rose 18.2% to C$275.3 million in its first year of operation as a public company, but lost C$300,000 or 1 cent per unit in the fourth quarter.
March 12, 2007Interpool Reports Higher Profit for 2006
Interpool Inc., a maker of shipping containers and chassis for intermodal container transportation, reported its 2006 net income rose, in part due to the sale of its container operating lease fleet.
March 12, 2007Gasoline Average Jump 20 Cents, Lundberg Survey Says
Average U.S. retail gasoline prices jumped 20 cents in the past two weeks to $2.55 a gallon, according to the latest Lundberg Survey of filling stations released Sunday.
March 12, 2007Technology Briefs 鈥 March 6 - March 12
New Mexico Senate Approves Biodiesel Bill 鈥 Dickinson Launches Online Maintenance Tool 鈥 Massachusetts Extends Fast Lane Discounts 鈥 IANA, T-Chek Set Fuel-Card Deal
March 12, 2007Oregon Nonprofit Group Features 鈥楪reen鈥 Technology for Trucks
Cascade Sierra Solutions, a nonprofit group that promotes the sale of products to help truck drivers save fuel and reduce emissions, said it has opened the first of what could be as many as eight 鈥済reen truck technology鈥 showrooms along the Interstate 5 corridor in Oregon, Washington and California.
March 12, 2007EPA Proposes Emission Cuts for Train and Marine Engines
The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed for the first time sharp cuts in exhaust emissions from railroad locomotive and marine engines in a plan a spokesman said would 鈥渇ollow exactly the same pattern鈥 as environmental regulations for truck engines.
March 12, 2007DOT Issues Daylight-Saving Time Reminder
The Department of Transportation issued a reminder that starting in 2007, daylight-saving time will begin three weeks earlier, starting this weekend.
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