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American Trucking Associations recently released a report citing numerous studies showing that passenger vehicle (car) drivers are principally responsible for between 70% and 75% of fatal car-truck crashes.

Now all we have to do is wait. American Trucking Associations made its best argument before the U.S. Supreme Court last week about why the Port of Los Angeles is violating a federal preemption law by trying to regulate motor carriers that serve the port.

U.S. heavy-duty truck sales fell 24.3% in March to 13,101 vehicles, the seventh straight year-over-year decline, WardsAuto.com reported. Truck makers and dealers blamed the slump on ongoing economic uncertainty and regulatory concerns.

President Obama has proposed dramatic cuts in the federal funding that helps truckers buy equipment to reduce diesel emissions, but called for significant increases for research into new vehicle technologies.

A federal administrative law judge cleared the way for a trucker to resume driving for a Boise, Idaho, refrigerated carrier, nearly three years after he was dismissed around the same time he asked that repairs be made on his truck.

Three truckload carriers reported improved first-quarter earnings, but with significant help from sources other than traditional trucking operations.

Package delivery has become an information business, with technology creating greater visibility into the supply chain, allowing fleets to become more efficient, decrease ground transit times and provide near real-time tracking for shippers and receivers, according to interviews with several service providers.

MONTREAL — Truck shows used to be primarily for fleets to view and buy new equipment. But these days, many carriers are becoming exhibitors and the commodity they’re in the market for is drivers.

WASHINGTON — The Port of Los Angeles is violating a federal preemption law by imposing “binding standards of conduct” on carriers that want to access the nation’s largest port, an attorney representing American Trucking Associations told the U.S. Supreme Court last week.

The U.S. government has certified Navistar’s MaxxForce 13 engine as being compliant with 2010 emissions regulations, enabling the company to begin shipping approved heavy-duty vehicles by the end of April.