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American truckers, and the big rigs they drive, are literally the lifeblood of this nation, transporting food, raw materials and finished goods from one end of the country to the other and back again, delivering what is needed where it is needed when it is needed on a daily basis. But those truckers just had a major roadblock placed in their way, courtesy of President Barack Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency, and the consequences for not only the trucking industry, but America as a whole, could be devastating. According to The Daily Caller, the EPA just announced on Tuesday that it...

The Central States Pension Fund has no new plan to avoid insolvency, fund director Thomas Nyhan said this week. Without government funding, the fund will run out of money in 10 years, he said. At that time, pension benefits for about 407,000 people could be reduced to "virtually nothing," he told workers and retirees in a letter sent Friday. In a last-ditch effort, the Central States Pension Plan sought government approval to partially reduce the pensions of 115,000 retirees and the future benefits for 155,000 current workers. The proposed cuts were steep, as much as 60% for some, but it...

Though President Obama is expected to visit Wednesday morning, Michele Vansickle said there doesn’t seem to be much activity at the ethanol plant in Macon, Mo.

Imagine tons of explosives being stolen in Mexico and then transported by truck into the United States. Could it happen? Over the weekend, it did. Almost.

Unless a judge intervenes, the only exit ramp ferrying traffic from the Southwest Freeway into Midtown and downtown will close this week for a three-year reconstruction, leaving drivers across the Houston region scrambling to find alternate routes. U.S. District Judge David Hittner is expected to rule as early as today on a request by area residents to force the Texas Department of Transportation to delay tearing down the inbound lanes of Spur 527. The West Alabama Quality of Life Coalition argues that the neighborhoods surrounding the spur and freeway will suffer "irreparable harm" from the flood of traffic looking to...

I am looking for some information/advice about modern technology in the trucking industry, and I was hoping to find some Freepers out there who might be able to help me. I am particularly interested in on-board vehicle navigation systems and the types of information that can be reported through them for individual vehicles. What I am looking for is not for my own use within this industry, but is more of a general idea about the availability of data that trucking companies would collect for themselves. Instead of posting my request here I’ll send the details to anyone who is...