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Fuel鈥檚 Crystal Ball
If you have any doubts about the future direction of fuel prices, pay attention to what鈥檚 happening today.
May 11, 2009Port Plan Progress
The most onerous and misguided portions of the plan by the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to reshape the trucking industry there have been enjoined by a federal court, at least for now.
May 4, 2009Ending Accounting Gimmicks
Legislation introduced by two prominent members of the Senate Finance Committee could go a long way toward taking the air out of some politicians鈥 stampede to raise short-term revenue by leasing out or selling public highways and other public assets.
April 27, 2009The Growing Mexican Morass
The fiasco over the Mexican border situation just keeps growing, as interested parties turn to their lawyers for relief and others try to turn up the political heat to get things moving.
April 13, 2009Reopening the Border
We鈥檙e pleased to see that President Obama鈥檚 administration is at work crafting a plan to reopen the United States to trucks from Mexico, as agreed to years ago when the North American Free Trade Agreement was ratified.
April 6, 2009Hours Rule Meets 鈥楪roundhog Day鈥
In a scenario eerily reminiscent of the Bill Murray movie 鈥淕roundhog Day,鈥 a coalition of interest groups has again launched a formal legal challenge to the government鈥檚 hours-of-service rules for commercial drivers.
March 16, 2009A Heartening Flurry of Activity
What the federal stimulus package does for road transportation and job creation may be more piecemeal than grand, but whether it鈥檚 filling potholes or replacing a crumbling bridge, it鈥檚 heartening to contemplate the flurry of construction activity that is about to sweep across the land.
March 9, 2009Trucking鈥檚 Growing Job Losses
Trucking suffered the greatest loss of jobs in history during January, excluding the month of the national drivers鈥 strike in 1994.
February 19, 2009