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The author of a proposal to prevent the Department of Transportation from issuing a final hours-of-service regulation this year today asked trucking executives to lobby Congress in support of the measure.

The Truckload Carriers Association's board of directors on Tuesday approved a plan that would establish a new financial relationship between the conference and American Trucking Associations.

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The Senate threw a major roadblock in the Department of Transportation’s drive to institute new hours-of-service rules for truckers.

American Trucking Associations last week presented The Maintenance Council with a dues proposal designed to keep the council’s membership intact.

The leadership of the Truckload Carriers Association is expected to overwhelmingly sign off on a plan June 20 that calls for the group and its members to pay American Trucking Associations a monthly fee instead of requiring its members to join the federation.

Two years ago, J. Vincent Ciroli Jr. was developing Internet sites for banks and helping his wife promote her real estate business online.

The Department of Transportation says it has no data to support its call for using electronic data recorders to monitor whether long-haul and regional drivers are complying with federal hours-of-service regulations.

New Jersey is putting muscle behind the ban that prohibits interstate truckers from using local roads to cross the state.

More than 500 Florida truckers may lose their commercial driver licenses due to bribery linked to the CDL scandal in Illinois.