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The Latest Headlines:
- Michelin Becomes a ‘Share the Road’ Sponsor
- Bush Names DOT Attorney to Head NHTSA
- Japan Halts U.S. Beef Imports Over Mad Cow Concerns
- Conn. Judge Rules Company’s Assets Can Be Sold
- Bush Names DOT Attorney to Head NHTSA
Michelin Becomes a ‘Share the Road’ Sponsor
Michelin Americas Truck Tires has joined Mack Trucks and Chevron Delo as a major sponsor of American Trucking Association’s Share the Road highway safety program, ATA said.Since 2000, with initial funding from Mack Trucks and additional funding last year from Chevron Delo, the Share the Road program has been delivering trucking safety messages to major cities and media markets across the country.
Demonstrations include highway “ride-alongs” for news media to provide close look at driving habits from a truck driver's point of view. Transport Topics
Bush Names DOT Attorney to Head NHTSA
President Bush nas nominated Nicole Nason to be the administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the White House said Wednesday.An attorney, Nason, 35, is an assistant secretary for governmental affairs at DOT. She was previously with the Customs Service and was communications director and counsel for CIA Director Porter Goss when he was a Republican congressman from Florida, the Washington Post reported Thursday.
A White House spokeswoman said Nason is declining interviews and will lay out her plans during Senate confirmation testimony, the Post reported.
he previous administrator, Jeffrey Runge, a medical doctor, left the NHTSA post for a position with Department of Homeland Security last July. (Click here for previous coverage.) Transport Topics
Japan Halts U.S. Beef Imports Over Mad Cow Concerns
Japan halted U.S. beef imports Friday after inspectors found banned cattle parts in a shipment, disrupting trade that resumed in December following a two-year halt because of concerns over mad-cow disease, Bloomberg reported.Meanwhile, the U.S. Department of Agriculture ruled out re-imposing a ban on Canadian beef imports Monday after a new case of mad cow disease was detected in Canada.
Japan had imposed some limits on U.S. beef imports, including that the meat come from cattle no older than 20 months and parts of cattle blamed for spreading mad-cow disease are removed, the Associated Press reported.
Trucking companies that haul beef could see smaller profits from curtailed beef imports. U.S. beef exports were worth $3.9 billion in 2003; Japan alone was worth $1.4 billion, AP said.
The USDA said last week that Singapore had officially ended a ban on U.S. beef, following Japan, Hong Kong and South Korea, all of which reopened their markets in the past six weeks, AP reported. Transport Topics
Conn. Judge Rules Company’s Assets Can Be Sold
A Connecticut judge has ruled that the assets of a Bloomfield, Conn., trucking company can be sold to compensate victims of a crash last July in Avon, Conn., that killed four and injured 19, the Associated Press reported..A dump truck owned by American Crushing & Recycling went out of control July 29 down a mountain, triggering a 20-vehicle crash, AP said.
The company’s trucks and other equipment are scheduled to be auctioned in March, although a date has not been set, AP reported.
Company owner David Wilcox of Windsor had argued that about half the items listed by a court-appointed receiver, such as tools and welding machinery, belong to him and his son, not the company. But Judge Vanessa Bryant ruled all the items can be sold. Transport Topics
