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The Department of Transportation’s effort to change its longstanding drug and alcohol testing policy is not going down smoothly with drivers or their bosses.

John W. Rollins Sr., entrepreneur and philanthropist, died April 4 at age 83 while sleeping at his office in Wilmington, Del.

Truckers overwhelmed by high fuel costs are falling behind in payments on their vehicles, and finance companies are seeing more drivers return their vehicles to the lenders because operators think they can no longer make money by driving the truck.

HighwayMaster of Richardson, Texas, – a provider of vehicle tracking and communication products – has changed its name to @Track Communications.

Ths afternoon's headlines: Crash survivors blast Canadian government for delays in Highway 401 improvements; Fatalities dip as speeds inch up on Iowa highways; and Spring snowfall shuts down stretch of Interstate 90 in South Dakota.

Once again, all of trucking is feeling the pain of a fuel price crisis, reminiscent of similar cost runups in the late 1970s and 80s. And the independent truckers are getting squeezed, though its hard to say exactly how bad it is for them.

Transportation.com has tapped former Transportation secretary Samuel K. Skinner as its chairman of the board to help establish the fledgling Internet business on firm ground.

In the news this morning: Deutsche Post allies with Lufthansa Cargo; Potential shortage of equipment during peak shipping season worries rail users; and Delaware to use soybean diesel in state fleet.

Truckers fighting to abolish Oregon’s weight-distance tax have been forced to concede defeat because of sky-high gasoline prices and fierce opposition from the American Automobile Association.

What if there were a way to have an endless supply of clean diesel fuel — a supply that did not depend on the whims of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries or the EPA?