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Several new regulations expected from the U.S. Department of Transportation will be delayed and others, including a long-awaited regulation encouraging the use of electronic onboard recorders, could fall even further behind schedule because of a recent court ruling scrapping part of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s driver-hours rule, DOT said.

The California Air Resources Board, in a September staff report, proposed to require Class 8 trucks to be outfitted with fuel-efficiency technologies such as cab fairings, skirts, low-rolling-resistance tires and automatic tire-inflation systems by 2010.

The federal appeals court that struck down parts of the current driver hours-of-service rule has agreed to delay implementation of its decision for 90 days to give regulators time to address the problems the judges found.

UPS Inc. and the Teamsters union agreed Sept. 30 on a new five-year tentative contract that, among its provisions, would allow the parcel carrier to pay $6.1 billion to leave the union’s Central States Health & Welfare and Pension Funds.

American Trucking Associations members will focus on the business side of the industry at this year’s Management Conference & Exhibition in Orlando, Fla., ATA President Bill Graves said.

Truckload carrier Knight Transportation said its president, Tim Kohl, is leaving the company and his position is being eliminated, Bloomberg reported.

The economy’s service sector growth slowed slightly in September from the previous month, the Institute for Supply Management said Wednesday.

PITTSBURGH — A Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration official said there are between 30 and 40 companies producing onboard recording devices that fail to meet FMCSA standards.

Tolling Interstate 80 under an act passed by both houses of the Pennsylvania General Assembly and signed by Gov. Ed Rendell will have an enormous effect on the economy of Pennsylvania and the trucking industry as a whole.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has joined American Trucking Associations’ attempt to postpone implementation of a federal court ruling against key portions of the current hours-of-service regulations.