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SAN DIEGO — CSA 2010, the new federal safety monitoring and rating system for motor carriers, is likely to be the most important and potentially disruptive federal policy development for trucking to come out of Washington this year, fleet executives and industry watchers said last week.

The Securities and Exchange Commission for the first time has voted to issue guidelines to help public companies decide whether climate change laws and regulations will have a material effect on their businesses.

Fleet maintenance professionals in Tampa, Fla., are taking in a glimpse of future trucks while discussing tips for management in the present at the Technology & Maintenance Council annual meeting, through Feb. 12.

The Obama administration’s $8.5 billion plan to advance U.S. high-speed rail programs is being questioned by trucking interests and the freight railroads whose tracks would host most of the new services, officials in both industries said.

The U.S. retail diesel average dropped 5.2 cents to $2.781 a gallon last week, the third straight weekly drop, the Department of Energy reported.

A state judge in Los Angeles has issued a civil judgment against a California trucking company that misclassified its drivers as independent contractors, California Attorney General Edmund Brown Jr. said Thursday.

American Trucking Associations has joined forces with farmers, manufacturers and consumer groups calling on Congress to more strictly regulate excessive oil speculation.

U.S. workers’ productivity surged in the fourth quarter to an annual rate of 6.2%, capping the largest one-year gain since 2003, the Labor Department said Thursday.

We almost made it through 2009 without another national news exposé of the trucking industry, but then came November and December. This time, the focus was on truck driver training and motor carrier employment practices.