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FCC Chairman to Resign • EPA Offers $1 Million in Grants for Emission-Cutting Projects • AirIQ Names New Chief Operating Officer • Canadian Group Cuts Truck Idling Through Education

In order to attract more small carriers at a time when freight-hauling capacity is in high demand, truckload carrier Landstar System has launched a new Internet bulletin board to offer its loads to a wider audience of truckers.

Ontario Trucking Association Backs Windsor Border Improvements • TransForce to Aquire Canadian Trucking Company • Lundberg: Gasoline Prices Rising • Interior Agency Backs Alaskan Oil Drilling • And more...

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration reproposed its driver hours-of-service rules, making no changes to the regulations a federal court had overturned, but adding several pages of references to how the rules would enhance driver health.

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. is considering restructuring options including plant closings, moving work overseas and laying off workers, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

New greases are offering fleets more operational choices — including extended service intervals — that promise to keep trucks on the road for longer periods at a time, lubricant and equipment manufacturers said.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. hen I read “Predictable Surprises — The Disasters You Should Have Seen Coming and How to Prevent Them,” current supply-chain issues came racing to mind. The book, written by two Harvard Business School professors, states that leaders need to confront predictable surprises before they actually occur.

Navistar Delays Meeting Until March • Preliminary Consumer Sentiment Index Falls in January • Werner Reports Record Operating Revenues • Rail Volume Falls; AAR Cites Bad Western Weather • And more...

The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia said Thursday its manufacturing index fell to 13.2 in January, the lowest since July 2003, from 25.4 in December.

A large investment firm has fired the first flare signaling trucking’s strong financial run could be in jeopardy, and warned that overcapacity is beginning to appear in the less-than-truckload sector.