• NTSB details highway work zone safety measures
• Massachusetts governor unveils road, bridge plan
• Illinois legislator wants to give trucks more leeway on state’s roads
• Minnesota bill would require drivers to buckle up
• Bad weather? Bill says hit those headlights
• House approves four-month highway bill extension
• Senators propose bond program for highway bill
• Bozo hospitalized
• DOT: No additional Amtrak funding
• Report says home video may have filmed Ohio sniper
• Virginia House approves bill to toll cars on I-81
• Celadon to manage trucking operation in Kuwait
• Trucking show producer Gary Sherrard dies
• Traffic-light device bill advances in Kansas
• If you can’t drive a semi, don’t expect to successfully steal one
• A trucking Valentine poem

• Diesel prices resume upward trend
• South Dakota House approves repeal of trucker’s tax
• Bill would let heavier rigs travel farther off interstates in Illinois
• Proposals would increase fuel tax, transfer road funds in Utah
• Bill would let longer, modern rigs travel county roads in Illinois
• Distracted driving bill dead
• Stoplight bill moves forward in California
• TxDOT hits highway to promote transportation corridor
• Trucking bills dead after missing deadline in California
• Illinois lawmaker targets mobile phone users who cause accidents
• Half-ton of pot seized in Buffalo (the city, not the animal)

• FBI examines Little Rock company’s employee records in ricin investigation
• OIG: FMCSA’s data system out of whack
• Group calls for freight policy in view of expected growth in trucking
• California port idling fines could be extended to waiting, too
• Plan to widen two highways hits a high-plains holdup
• West Virginia Turnpike adding more electronic signs
• Bandag buys majority interest in Speedco

SPECIAL REPORT : Senate OKs highway bill by veto-proof margin

• Bush veto of transportation bill unlikely, report says
• Ridge in Mexico urges stepped up border patrols
• Former deputy admits falsifying CDL tests
• Two western states consider boosting rural interstate speeds
• Colorado House clears left lane bill
• Police think killer may be a truck driver
• Court: Uninsured motorists can't sue
• Georgia House OKs stoplights bill
• Bill would outlaw cell phones for teen drivers
• Mineta: House transportation bill ‘veto bait’
• DHS seeking detection gizmos from private sector
• Fix one bottleneck – another pops up, study says
• Budget analyst says California should increase fuel tax
• Grocery strike averted on East Coast; West Coast action continues
• New truck stop gets OK from city