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With transportation revenues seemingly drying up in Virginia, the Commonwealth Transportation Board voted this week to slash $893.5 million from the six-year transportation plan. More: continued here

The Women In Trucking Association’s board of directors unanimously approved Jeff Hammonds, vice president of Wal-Mart Transportation in Bentonville, AR, as its newest board member. Hammonds fills the board seat vacated by Lana Batts, who resigned earlier this year to focus her efforts at Transport Capital Partners. More: continued here

A delegation of state and federal lawmakers from Pennsylvania is urging the Federal Highway Administration to reject a plan to convert Interstate 80 into a toll road. The delegation was led by U.S. Rep. Glenn Thompson, a Republican, who was joined by U.S. Reps. Paul Kanjorski and Kathy Dahlkemper, both Democrats. More: continued here

Magal S3 ; today announced that it has sold the European subsidiary which it acquired in September 2007. More: continued here

The U.S. House passed three measures this week related to highway funding. The Senate was expected to move quickly on one of the measures, which will extend current highway spending levels through the end of February. More: continued here

Truckers working at the Port of Los Angeles may have longer to comply with the port’s new emissions rule – provided they are ordering a new truck by New Year’s Eve. More: continued here

OOIDA members and other truckers have done it again. This year – in spite of the economy – a new record was set for contributions to the Truckers for Troops Telethon. This year’s preliminary total is $56,711. That’s $2,000 more than last year and $14,000 more than in 2007, the first year of the telethon. [...]

A late push for worldwide climate change consensus doesn’t change the fact that cap-and-trade proposals in the U.S. would be directly tied to higher diesel prices, one OOIDA official said Friday. More: continued here Powered by SmartRSS