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Today's technology headlines: National Transportation Exchange releases new software; EMS Technologies, Seimac deal aimed at improving driver communications in Nova Scotia; Texaco to help form online exchange to charter ships; and more.

House and Senate votes have stopped funding for the proposed ergonomics standards starting Oct. 1, but the workplace safety issue covering an estimated 27.3 million workers is far from being dead in the water.

Despite being vastly outnumbered by critics, some organizations like what they see in the Department of Transportation’s proposed changes in the hours-of-service regulations.

All drivers in Indiana are directed to give road workers a wide berth or face fines of up to $10,000 established by a new law.

In the news this morning: Oil prices drop amid low inventory warning; American Freightways earnings top analyst estimates; Canada wrestles with its own hours-of-service issue; and more.

This afternoon's headlines: Diesel cost notches downward in latest week; Consolidated Freightways opens new terminal in Mexico; GATX Corp. to sell storage, distribution subsidiary.

Shippers weighed in on behalf of trucking July 6 at the start of the final public hearing on the controversial hours-of-service proposal and lambasted the Department of Transportation’s work.

Three years ago, Richard E. Durst, president of Arctic Express in Hilliard, Ohio, sat down and calculated the cost of exchanging pallets with shippers. Seeing 1% of his revenues was being eaten up by pallets, he killed off his exchanges.

The International Trucking Show is not a shrinking violet, according to its organizer. The attendance for this year and last year was the same – 14,000 – and exhibit space sold out both years.

Today's Technology Headlines: PNV.com connects with truckers; transporters move to deliver on e-commerce; Aether Systems expands to serve truck fleets; and more.