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WASHINGTON — The most effective security measures are often simple precautions that anyone can learn — and high-tech systems do not provide complete solutions to cargo theft problems, industry executives said last week.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. argo theft has been a perennial problem for the trucking industry, resulting in losses of at least $12 billion a year, according to industry experts. And the word coming out of a Washington, D.C., conference last week held little relief for carriers.

Logan Airport to Test Cargo Screening • FDA Modifies Food Import Rules • Airport Screeners Look for Pillow Bombs • FedEx Forms Police Force to Battle Terrorism, Crime • And more...

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The Maryland Transportation Authority took the first step toward raising tolls on several key trucking routes in that state at its Sept. 29 board meeting.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. roper heavy-vehicle collision investigations should go far beyond looking at the individual driver. The trucking company and its policies are an integral part in the process of putting a safe vehicle and driver out on the road.

Bob Pitcher, formerly the director of American Trucking Associations’ state law department, has returned to the association as vice president for state laws, restoring an ATA function that had been lost in recent years, federation officials said.

Eaton Earnings Up; Expect Strong Truck Market in 4Q • J.B. Hunt Profits Soar in 3Q • Prices of Crude Oil Continues to Rise • Schneider Opens Two New Brokerage Offices • And more...

Fleet executives who reported in February that their initial heavy-duty diesel engines with new emissions controls were performing largely as advertised and without any technical surprises repeated those cautiously optimistic endorsements as the one-year anniversary of the Environmental Protection Agency’s tougher emissions standard approached.

A new report funded by backers of the proposed Detroit River Tunnel Project showed that an unplanned shutdown of the Ambassador Bridge — the busiest U.S.-Canada crossing — would cost $65 million a day.