Schools try to outguess capricious storm.
Byline: Anne Williams The Register-Guard Local school schedules were moving targets Tuesday morning as a capricious system of rain, freezing rain and snow created harrowing conditions on some area roadways. In the Eugene district, officials initially announced schools would open on time, with buses running...

Construction to limit access on I-5/Belt Line interchange.
Byline: Diane Dietz The Register-Guard Eugene-Springfield residents going to Salem, Portland or Seattle this month may have to go south before they go north. For 13 days - as yet unspecified - the Interstate 5/Belt Line Road interchange will offer no northbound freeway entrances at...

House, president agree to dollar figure on highway funding.
A six-year highway and transit funding bill that would guarantee $283.9 billion through 2009 was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives. The bipartisan legislation, H.R. 3--The Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy For Users (TEA LU)--was introduced by Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska), Chairman, Transportation and Infrastructure Committee;...

New Rules of the Road.
The tug-of-war between the trucking industry, safety advocates, and federal regulators continues, as the Department of Transportation struggles to come up with workable hours-of-service revisions to promote highway safety and reduce traffic accidents. Here we go again. Yet another attempt is being made to update the hours-of-service...

Road kill.
"We're lawbreakers. We've got to be," Ron Vanderburg says defiantly as he stands by his raucusly idling Peterbilt in the vast Union 76 truck stop in Ontario, California. After 41 years driving a big rig, he knows how the game works. "The [trucking company] dispatchers don't give a damn...

Road to perdition: are smog-belching "truck tollways" a congestion solution?
Fifteen years from now, 28,000 trucks day, many of them hauling double r triple trailers, may be speeding up and down special truck lanes on Virginia's Interstate 81, belching tons of carbon monoxide into the Shenandoah Valley each year. Proponents of "toll truckways," such as the influential libertarian Reason...

My dad is a firefighter.
Hi, my name is Hannah. Meet my dad, Paul. He is a firefighter in Connecticut. We spent a day together at his firehouse. A Day With a Firefighter My dad taught me that there are many important parts of a firefighter's job. Look at some...

Drivers: The Critical Component of Fleet Safety.
The majority of severe fleet claims are the result of driver actions under normal driving conditions. An effective fleet risk management program should address these issues, as well as those related to recruiting and retaining the best drivers. Truck liability losses continue to rise. Million dollar loss...

Getting on the bus. (Pediatric Briefs).
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has launched Moving Kids Safely a national effort to increase the use of safe bus companies for transporting school children to sporting events, field trips, and other extracurricular activities. Field offices of the FMCSA will partner with pupil transportation service organizations, parent-teacher groups,...

Congress passes eight-month TEA-21 extension.
After lawmakers were unable to reach agreement on a funding level for a six-year TEA-21 reauthorization bill, Congress passed an eight-month extension, and President Bush signed it into law. Bush has threatened to veto any reauthorization proposal of more that $256 billion. Under the extension, reports the...