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Major players in the trucking industry are trying to forge a consensus over what financial incentives they will ask Congress to provide to encourage the use of cleaner-burning diesel engines as the effective date of new federal pollution rules draws nearer, officials said.

A California government review panel last week recommended replacing the California Air Resources Board with a single director in a division of air quality inside the California Environmental Protection Agency.

UAW to Vote on Caterpillar’s Contract on Aug. 15 • Wholesale Inventories Rise 1.1% in June • Economists Lower 3Q Growth Estimates • Fed Expected to Raise Interest Rates on Tuesday • And more...

California Pushes for Truck-Stopping Device • XM Satellite's Net Loss Widens • Iteris Earns $1 Million in Fiscal 1.

Employers added only 32,000 workers to payrolls in July, the Labor Department said Friday, as it also revised lower the job gains for the two previous months.

Diesel engine maker Caterpillar Inc. said Thursday evening it gave the United Auto Workers its "last, best and final" contract offer and the union held off a scheduled strike.

Truck drivers using the Maine Turnpike will begin paying much more next year to travel on one of the state’s major thoroughfares.

The Department of Transportation said Friday its Transportation Services Index rose 0.1% in May to a record 124.3, while the freight TSI also hit another new high..

EGL Reports Higher 2Q Profits • Old Dominion Offers Guidance on 3Q • Rail Intermodal Traffic Remains Strong • NHTSA Seeks Comment on Report

With the peak shipping season for intermodal containers set to begin this month, railroads are making seasonal rate hikes, but the increases may stay in place after the peak, shipping executives said last week.