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A federal commission is likely to recommend criminal background checks for people involved in moving freight through the nation’s ports.

The latest round of rail mergers has the Department of Transportation weighing a stronger “public-private partnership” with freight railroads, according to one official at the Federal Railroad Administration.

To truckers, the staccato notes of an engine brake in full throat — “braaaackkkk!” — resonate like music of the road, but to a growing number of people living near truck routes, the melody is anything but harmonious.

People in the market for light- or medium-duty commercial trucks turned out to see what the industry had to offer during the National Truck Equipment Association’s annual trade show.

The American Moving and Storage Association is officially out of American Trucking Associations.

Tensions remain high between household goods haulers and the military as the Department of Defense prepares to launch a new program revamping the way service personnel move.

Congressional support for releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve grew this week as lawmakers flocked to support an American Trucking Associations-backed resolution urging the Clinton administration to take the action to help stabilize fuel prices.

The $5.9-billion merger of Swedish truck makers Volvo and Scania may be dead, Bloomberg News reported last week.

The Department of Transportation should triple the number of truck inspectors at the border with Mexico to ensure that unsafe vehicles don’t enter the United States, the agency’s inspector general said.

Moving companies are wary of the new hours-of-service proposal, fearing that it may force their drivers - who do more loading and unloading than the average trucker - to leave furniture on a customer’s lawn.