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Despite the lack of a new, long-promised federal stopping-distance rule for heavy-duty trucks, brake companies are making — and original equipment manufacturers are offering — a growing array of electronic systems designed to help truckers stop faster and maintain more control.

Truck and engine manufacturer Navistar Inc. has challenged the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority to certify heavy-duty diesel engines using selective catalytic reduction to meet the agency’s 2010 emission standards, saying EPA skipped an important regulatory step.

President Obama will nominate Anne Ferro, president of the Maryland Motor Truck Association, to head the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, the White House announced last week.

I find it very odd that when Washington needs something from the people, they talk about family, but when the people need something from the government, they talk about business. This kind of duality of conflicting agendas contradicts reason and confuses everyone. Even if it is unintentional, it smacks of doublespeak.

First-quarter U.S. worker productivity improved at an annual rate of 1.6% in the first quarter, twice the level originally reported, the Labor Department said Thursday.

The U.S. economy’s service sector improved last month with its highest reading in seven months but still showed contraction, the Institute for Supply Management said Wednesday.

Manufacturing in the U.S. improved last month but still showed contraction overall, the Institute for Supply Management said Monday.

A rule requiring U.S. residents to show a passport or other high-tech document to re-enter the country from Canada or Mexico took effect Monday, the Associated Press reported.

Truckers who pull refrigerated trailers into and around California have less than two months to prep for a rule that requires the small diesel engines that power older reefers to meet a state emission standard.