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Truck drivers will have a harder time cheating on drug tests under changes to the regulations imposed by the Department of Transportation.

A surplus in the fund for hazardous materials emergency preparedness may mean that the Department of Transportation will slash hazmat haulers registration fees, at least for a while.

Transport ministers may approve a plan that includes more restrictive hours-of-service regulations for overseas truckers and a weekend ban on trucks travelling international roads.

In a twist of fate that finds the road riding the truck instead of the truck riding the road, three flatbed trucks carried sections of old Route 66 from Oklahoma to the nation’s capital.

California adopted diesel engine regulations for 2005 and 2006, effectively closing an unregulated gap and creating an environmental “law of the land” for truck makers.

General Motors Corp. and CNF Inc. have created a joint venture company to serve as the automotive giant’s 4PL — a fourth-party logistics service provider.

Sadly, the secretary of energy in Washington, D.C., doesn’t have a call-in show. If he did, maybe a tough critic could set him straight, because the lack of a national energy strategy is killing us.

California, where the whole emissions thing started, is at it again. And not just for new trucks of the future, but for trucks and buses already on the road. They could eventually get — gasp! — particulate traps, the expensive, heavy and bulky devices first feared in the early 1990s, when exhaust emissions rules seemed impossible to meet.

The differences in the diesel retrofit programs that have been announced in Sacramento, Calif., and Washington, D.C., revolve around money. While the federal government is unable to say how many dollars will actually be available to clean up commercial fleets and municipal transportation, the California government has mandated millions of dollars to help trucking companies retrofit truck engines to meet air-quality standards.

Yossi Sheffi will step down as chief executive officer of Logistics.com and hand the reins over to John Lanigan, a former Schneider National executive.