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International Truck and Engine Corp. took action April 7 that would allow the company to sue the Environmental Protection Agency if it does not adopt a new sulfur standard for diesel fuel.

There’s an adage in government that if you issue a rule and no one’s happy, you’ve done a good job. The Department of Transportation’s proposal that long-haul trucks be equipped with recorders that track driver hours will test that theory.

The federal regulations that govern how much time a professional driver can spend behind the wheel have been around for more than 60 years, but not without changes. Because change is rarely achieved without controversy, today’s regulators find themselves ensnared in a familiar dilemma: how to tailor the rules to suit the wide variety of trucking circumstances.

Somewhere in Canada’s governmental bureaucracy, lawyers are massaging the anxiously awaited hours-of-service reforms for trucking in that country.

As Department of Transportation officials publicly announced their proposal for reforming hours of service, the National Transportation Safety Board was meeting in a Washington suburb to address the vexing question of how to treat accident-investigation data.

Before the end of the year, truckers should be able to zip through tollbooths on Illinois’ tollways with a smile and a wave, but not a stop.

A $100 million-a-year contract won by J.B. Hunt Transport Services to take over shipments leaving Wal-Mart’s crossdock facilities has some carriers concerned they will be cut out by the Lowell, Ark., truckload and logistics giant.

There’s an old adage that goes: “Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.”

In this world of change, it is important for organizations to look at the horizon, to re-evaluate, to seek guidance, to consider ways of doing things differently. Today, change is taking place at the Military Traffic Management Command. And frankly, it is overdue.

Reports of his demise, Mark Twain quipped, are greatly exaggerated.