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Before Sept. 11, security in trucking meant protecting equipment and cargo from accident or criminal activity. Since that infamous date, security also has come to mean keeping potential terrorists or other bad guys from turning your truck into a bomb.

The USA Patriot Act requires the Department of Transportation to certify that drivers of hazardous cargo are not potential terrorists. Specific rules for screening these drivers likely will be issued in February and take effect in April.

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President Bush sent Congress his fiscal 2003 budget on Monday, heavy on defense and homeland security, but with his tax cuts meant to spark the U.S. economy still in place.

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The Teamsters union and United Parcel Service kicked off negotiations over a new contract Jan. 30 with both sides saying they want to avoid a repeat of a 15-day strike in 1997.

Contract negotiations between United Parcel Service and the Teamsters got off to an amiable start last week, as both sides exchanged non-economic proposals and established a schedule for formal talks.

The national average price of diesel fuel remained unchanged at $1.144 per gallon, the Department of Energy reported on Monday.

The Bush administration proposed a record $371 million for motor carrier safety in fiscal 2003 on Monday, even as grant funding for state safety programs fell by $16 million.

The nation’s passenger railroad has threatened to discontinue all long-distance service in October, unless Congress gives it $1.2 billion in the fiscal 2003 budget, news services reported.