• Threat level lowered from high to elevated
• Vermont bill restricts idling
• Colorado bill clears left lane
• Virginia sets first safety enforcement zone
• Trucks trapped as city locked in winter’s icy hold
• Agencies offer $100,000 reward in ricin letter investigation
• Three household goods moving companies ordered to pay $828,633
• Alabama road lobby seeks higher fuel taxes
• Martin Marietta rolls out first trailer

• FHWA head: Gas tax becoming obsolete – tolls an option
• Diesel prices zoom – reach $1.713 in frigid New England
• Trucking company charges shippers $66,000 for dock delays
• Wisconsin governor signs drugged-driving bill
• Trooper discipline bill nears Pennsylvania governor’s desk

• Tennessee eyes truck lane restrictions
• CFI increases driver pay citing HOS rules
• Cummins offers field tests for EGR engines
• Schneider plans 400 jobs in Georgia
• Cell phone ban heads to New Jersey governor
• Rhode Island bill targets traffic-light cheats

• Court: Information-gathering roadblocks are constitutional
• NTSB investigates death of four in I-95 tanker truck accident
• Yellow-Roadway to open more terminals
• Swift acquires full ownership of Mexican trucking firm
• NAST kicks off season with Feb. 27-29 truck beauty contest in Florida
• Bill targeting drunken driving heads to New Jersey governor

SPECIAL REPORT: Owner-operators will get their day in court, says Utah judge

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• Carriers tweak language to find common ground with shippers
• Proposed toll increase could drive truckers off Pennsylvania’s turnpike
• Tanker company’s safety record a key issue in MD crash probe
• NTSB updates I-95 tanker investigation
• North Dakota has first in-road scales up and running
• Three semis involved in accident after herd of black cattle crosses highway at night
• Retired trucker wants keepsake back; despite prosecutors’ order, police refuse
• Combination of factors expected to spur rising fuel prices
• Pennsylvania Turnpike tolls could rise to $150 for biggest trucks
• Another shooting takes place along Columbus, OH, interstate
• Construction execs arrested – $100 million in bid rigging alleged
• Scientists: No evidence now that cell phones cause cancer
• Court: Information-gathering roadblocks are constitutional
• NTSB investigates death of four in I-95 tanker truck accident
• Yellow-Roadway to open more terminals
• Swift acquires full ownership of Mexican trucking firm
• NAST kicks off season with Feb. 27-29 truck beauty contest in Florida
• Bill targeting drunken driving heads to New Jersey governor