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The Supreme Court on Monday ruled the Bush administration can skip an environmental study and open U.S. highways to Mexican trucks as soon as it wishes.

USF Corp. said it plans to re-emerge in the Northeast with a new “service product,” but it offered no timetable for the rollout following its surprise decision in late May to shut down USF Red Star, its unionized less-than-truckload operation that served the region.

Medium-duty truck buyers satisfied with a stock truck should still be able to find lower-priced, pre-2004, emissions-compliant trucks on dealer lots. But those who wait are likely to find only vehicles with the latest generation of low-emissions diesel engines.

Trucking industry, law enforcement and private safety groups applauded the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s decision to remove overall carrier score data from its SafeStat Web site, but some said last week that FMCSA needed to do more to overhaul its trucking safety efforts.

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Employers added 248,000 workers to payrolls in May, the Labor Department reported Friday, as manufacturing employment rose the most since August 1998 and hours worked at factories were the highest since October 2000..

New-driver regulations the Department of Transportation released last week will require all new heavy-truck drivers to go through another set of classes beyond what it takes to get a commercial driver license.

The Department of Transportation may adopt changes in drug-testing procedures that would include testing hair samples and on-the-spot mouth swabs for safety-related employment such as truck drivers, an agency spokesman said.

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