• I can't hear the train a-comin': Feds want whistleless railroad warnings
• Highway reform bills under consideration in Missouri
• Bill would require audits of Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission
• Your very own highway - if the price is right
• Schwarzenegger action makes California budget an official crisis
• Negotiations to resume today in California grocery strike
• Virginia lawmaker eyes fuel tax hike for road dollars
• Study calls for improvements to U.S. 9 in New Jersey
• Use of trucks growing in rural grain hauling
• TX border scanner nets $8.2 million in cocaine
• ‘Ol' Blue’ Web site is the latest to offer HOS help

SPECIAL ALERT: Threat level up a notch

SPECIAL REPORT: Truck inspections up as alert level remains orange

• Talks to end grocery strike break down after one day; no agreement in sight
• Quake hits central coast of California
• Diesel prices up
• Colorado governor proposes uninsured drivers bill
• Stricter seat-belt enforcement eyed in Utah

• DOT asks discretionary enforcement for 60 days after Jan. 4 HOS change
• FMCSA releases security guide for hazmat haulers
• Another truck may have been target of Ohio shooter
• Former Gov. Ryan says he’s innocent
• First U.S. case of mad cow disease detected in Northwest
• Carrier may owe IRS millions; Hunt says it will fight decision
• Per-diem meal allowance increased to $41 per day for U.S. drivers
• Pickets pull away from two grocery chains’ distribution centers in California
• Local votes to determine fate of new highway
• Happy Holidays from OOIDA
• Truck driver jailed for HOS violation
• Indiana lawmaker targets traffic-light changers
• Kentucky lawmaker pursues stricter seat-belt enforcement