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

SPECIAL REPORT: Court upholds four-year statute of limitations on OOIDA claims against Ledar Transport; strikes down carrier counterclaims

• 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

• Peters urges ‘demand-based’ financing for highways
• AASHTO details ways to speed highway projects, reduce costs
• House Democrats score Homeland Security effort
• Newspapers feature OOIDA member
• Manager gets year in prison for bribery
• Kansas lawmaker wants to ban red-light changers
• Rally arrests mark 100th day of California grocery strike
• You’re kidding already – NY DOT has no sense of humor

• New Jersey governor signs cell phone bill
• Diesel prices rise again, hit $1.748 in New England
• Member honored as million-mile safe driver
• Commission says California in a transportation funding crisis
• Missouri targets traffic signal changers
• Distracted driving bill passes committee in California
• California lawmaker targets drivers using cell phones

• Pennsylvania Turnpike OKs toll increase; some would pay $150 to cross the state
• DOT: Fatal crash rate for large trucks down
• Panel: Truck sale voided because of fraud not subject to sales tax
• Young seeks federal funding for VA car/truck separation project
• CANACAR and Pharr officials reach tentative agreement on fines
• Grocery stores in other parts of U.S. to be picketed in support of California strike
• West Virginia bill targets slowpokes
• Lower drunken-driving limit now law in New Jersey
• Nebraska bill would tighten requirements for youths to get driving permits

• Werner notes initial effect of HOS rules
• FTC releases consumer fraud Top 10
• Judge dismisses truckers’suit over back sales tax in Arkansas
• Group challenges rollback of California vehicle license fee
• Hundreds apply for trucking jobs in Georgia
• California's public retirement system asks grocery chains to resolve strike
• Rubber ducky, you're not so fun
• Romney pushes for department merger
• Indiana bill would bar all cell phones in vehicles
• Arizona lawmaker pursues stricter seat-belt enforcement
• Two more fined for HOS violations in Ontelaunee case
• Utah lawmaker proposes stricter DUI laws
• Congress looking into National Institutes of Health studies
• Identity theft tops FTC consumer complaint list for 2003
• Another car hit by gunfire on Columbus, OH, area highways
• Big trucker gets a bigger truck
• Abelson selected as concept vehicle juror
• Virginia governor details transportation plan
• West Virginia Senate passes drunken-driving bill
• Alaska joins states targeting traffic-light devices