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A new Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration course will emphasize hands-on training with automatic onboard recording devices to help safety officials speed the pace of inspections, according to the course’s lead instructor.

While federal officials visit and advise trucking companies that haul hazardous material, some truck drivers are taking their own steps to ensure the safety of their rigs, and themselves.

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New orders for durable goods fell 0.3% in August, according to a Department of Commerce report released Thursday, their third straight month of decline.

FBI agents on Wednesday assisted in the arrests of 10 Middle Eastern men for fraudulently obtaining licenses to transport hazardous materials, while the Energy Department said it has lifted the moratorium on the shipment of low-level nuclear waste.

Joseph Clapp was confirmed late Wednesday, by a voice vote of the U.S. Senate, as the first administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. Br clear = all>

The U.S. economy was sliding into recession, fuel prices were at all-time highs and trucking companies were scrambling to fill excess freight-hauling capacity.

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