The California Air Resources Board today announced that Cummins paid $500,000 for failing to properly retest its engines already in use. Cummins violations include: * Not testing at least four engines in selected engine families;… Read More »Cummins Pays $500,000 in Penalties to California, EPA

 Updated: 7/8/2011 2:30:00 PM House Republicans proposed a six-year, $230 billion highway-funding transportation package that is sharply lower than the level sought by the Obama administration, news services reported. Unveiled Thursday by Rep. John Mica… Read More »House Republicans Propose Deep Cuts to Federal Highway Funding

By Oliver B. Patton, Washington Editor The starting point for reauthorization of the federal highway law in the House is a six-year vision – not a bill yet – of a dramatically smaller program that… Read More »House Panel Unveils Highway Proposal

 Updated: 7/7/2011 8:00:00 AM By Boyd StephensonManager, Security and Cross-Border Operations American Trucking Associations This Opinion piece appears in the July 4 print edition of Transport Topics. Click here to subscribe today. When the Federal… Read More »Opinion: Please, DOT, Flip the Switch for PSP

Echo Global Logistics has acquired substantially all of the assets of Advantage Transport, a truckload transportation brokerage firm based in Phoenix. Echo has retained the entire Advantage Transport workforce in connection with this acquisition. Advantage… Read More »Echo Global Logistics Acquires Advantage Transport

 Updated: 7/6/2011 10:00:00 AM Volkswagen AG moved closer to its goal of becoming Europe’s largest truck maker in moving toward gaining a majority in German truck maker MAN SE, Bloomberg reported. Volkswagen will own 56%… Read More »Volkswagen Moves Toward Majority Stake in German Truck Maker MAN

U.S. Department of Transportation Office of Public Affairs 1200 New Jersey Ave., S.E. Washington, DC 20590www.dot.gov/affairs/index.html DOT 79-11 Wednesday, July 6, 2011 U.S. DOT Public Affairs Tel.: (202) 366-4570 United States and Mexico Announce Safe,… Read More »United States and Mexico Announce Safe, Secure Cross-Border Trucking Program

The price of on-highway diesel dropped significantly again last week, although not quite as steeply as the previous week. Nationally, prices came down 3.8 cents to $3.85 per gallon. California diesel continued to sink fast… Read More »Diesel Continues Decline; Oil Rises in Spite of Emergency Supplies

 Updated: 7/1/2011 10:10:00 AM Consumer confidence fell in June, according to the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index released Friday. The final index for the month fell to 71.5 from 74.3 in May, the… Read More »Consumer Confidence Drops in June

“Trailer Talk” blog by Tom Berg, Senior Editor In three weeks’ time, new, shorter federal stopping distance limits go into effect for three-axle tractors, most of them over-the-road power units that pull semitrailers. The new… Read More »Trailers do their share to meet stopping-distance requirements, now and soon to come

 Updated: 7/1/2011 10:20:00 AM Construction spending declined 0.6% in May, the sixth straight monthly decrease, the Commerce Department said Friday. The increase followed another 0.6% drop in April that was previously estimated as a 0.4%… Read More »Construction Spending Dips 0.6% in May

 Updated: 7/1/2011 10:30:00 AM U.S. manufacturing activity rose in June, showing continued expansion for the 23rd consecutive month, the Institute for Supply Management said Friday. ISM’s monthly factory index rose to a reading of 55.3,… Read More »ISM Manufacturing Index Rises in June