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Mileage-based pay cannot be abandoned, a panel of fleet executives agreed Tuesday, but the system must be adjusted to compensate truck drivers for the time they spend and the work they do when the wheels aren’t turning.

Now that Congress has averted – or at least rescheduled – a couple of crises of their own doing, they can focus on routine things like running the country. And I can get back to an entertaining pastime called “follow the money,†and anybody can play along.

Trucks need to pay more to use the nation’s highways – that’s the essence of a recent hearing on funding the nation’s freight system.

The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s annual enforcement blitz, Operation Safe Driver, will mobilize across North America Oct. 20-26. This year’s effort will be similar to last year’s event, when  

GM’s Chevrolet division has begun delivering the 2014 Corvette Stingray Coupe to dealers in the US from its Bowling Green assembly plant in Kentucky. The carmaker is using vehicle haulier Jack Cooper Transport to deliver the vehicles,

The federal government shutdown in the US, which is moving into to its second week as Republicans and Democrats in the House of Representatives remain in dispute over president Obama’s healthcare reform, is currently having a

Ford will begin export shipments of vehicles from the US to China through the port of Portland in Oregon in the next few weeks. It is the first time that Ford has used the port for exports to China, although it established shipments to South Korea from there last year.

Logistics and transport provider Kuehne + Nagle has signed a three year contract with Toyota to manage its spare parts warehouse in Ukraine. The company will support

OEMs and tier one suppliers are increasingly prefering to shorten their supply chains, but in decisions on near-shoring or re-shoring, pragmatism will prevail