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Members of The Maintenance Council of American Trucking Associations heard about a way to reduce emissions from diesel exhaust – with fuel to which water has been added.

The Truckload Carriers Association’s “Just in Time to Wait” panel has devised a strategy for promoting its agreement with the National Industrial Transportation League to try to cut driver waiting time at loading docks.

The definition of insanity, says Thomas L. Finkbiner, the new chairman of the Intermodal Transportation Institute at the University of Denver, is when people do the same thing over and over and expect a different result.

The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, which regulates the safety of new trucking equipment, is collecting information on the potential capabilities and costs of “black box” computers on trucks to aid in reconstructing accidents, as is done in aviation.

Lingering problems with opening the U.S.-Mexico border to international trucking will remain on hold until after this week’s U.S. presidential election, according to a senior official in the Mexico transportation and communications ministry.

The California Highway Patrol this week boosted its hours for checking truck traffic at a key inland weigh station north of San Diego, helping enforce cross-border trucking rules that apply to Mexican truckers operating here under the North American Free Trade Agreement. The facility is once again checking trucks 24 hours each day.

Trying to come up with ways to unblock some of the massive congestion for trucks trying to move across the U.S.-Mexico border near San Diego, the California Trucking Association is officially calling on the U.S. Customs Service to stay open longer hours.

The current downturn in demand for new Class 8 trucks has not hit bottom yet and things cannot get better until they get worse, a trendline analysis by the market consulting firm of A.G. Edwards indicates.

Duane W. Acklie is unlike any other chairman that American Trucking Associations has had, having been involved in everything from banking, land development and trucking deregulation.

W.C. McQuaide Inc., a 37-year-old Pennsylvania motor carrier will parks its rigs for good just a few days before Thanksgiving, largely due to high diesel prices.