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As federal regulators ready mandates to curtail greenhouse-gas emissions and improve heavy-duty trucks’ fuel mileage, Environmental Protection Agency and trucking company officials said that research gleaned from EPA’s 8-year-old SmartWay program can help shape those rules.

Rand McNally announced on June 26 that its mobile communications devices are now integrated with two applications from TMW Systems Inc., a provider of software to transportation and logistics companies.

IdleAir, which provides anti-idling equipment at truck stops, said it will open four new locations and in Pennsylvania and Texas and will be adding 100 new spots in 13 existing locations.

Oil rose over $85 a barrel in early trading Monday, after taking its biggest drop in two weeks on Friday, Bloomberg reported.

The current tax period for Heavy Vehicle Use Tax is from July 1, 2012 - June 30, 2013. The deadline to file your Form 2290 return is August 31, 2012 for all vehicles used during the month of July.  Vehicles that are first used in any other month during this period, an IRS Form 2290 is required on the last day of the month following the first use date (example: If a vehicle is first used in April, the IRS Form 2290 will be due by May 31).

National Fleet Services will maintain your fleet and all of your IRS 2290 filings.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration on Friday, June 29, ordered Tennessee-based truck company Three Angels Farms and its owners, Edwin Ayache and Dorian Ayache, to cease all transportation services immediately based on serious safety violations that posed an imminent hazard to public safety.

Your MCS-150 information shall be updated every two years, based on the schedule 49 CFR 390.19.  It is a good idea to review and update your information any time you have changes to your insurance or business operations.  It should also be known that the CSA calculations use the number of unites operated and the reported mileage data from the MCS-150 in the calculations for unsafe driving and crash basics.

President Obama signed the federal highway bill into law at the White House Friday afternoon, which will fund transportation programs through September 2014, C-Span reported.

Navistar International Corp. said Friday it will offer a new engine technology to meet federal and state emission rules by using a new, urea-based system for aftertreatment.

The U.S. unemployment rate held at 8.2% in June and trucking improved by 2,000 jobs, the Labor Department said Friday.