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LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday partially overturned a Port of Los Angeles anti-smog program that replaced thousands of aging trucks with cleaner-burning models and forced trucking companies to sign agreements to meet other regulations. The court struck down two sections of the complicated 2008 ordinance that required short-haul trucking firms using the nation’s largest port complex …

More Schools Are Ramping Up Their Programs, Adding Majors and M.B.A. Concentrations as Employer Demand Grows The supply chain includes production, transport, distribution and other logistics, as well as the engineering and financial considerations involved in each of those elements. In the past few years, many companies have experienced growing pains as they’ve added far-flung …

To a child in love with trucks, the parade that rolled through a Landover parking lot Tuesday might have been better than the march of the elephants. Dump trucks, tractor-trailers, moving vans, tank trucks, car carriers, tow trucks, delivery vans, a tow truck pulling a truck, a flatbed truck loaded with a shiny red farm …

Trucking company alleges racketeering BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – New federal corruption charges have been filed alleging racketeering charges against Browns owner Jimmy Haslam’s Pilot Flying J company. Shoreline Transportation of Alabama filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Birmingham, Alabama. John Michael Bowling is an attorney representing Shoreline owner Don Gremillion and said his client …

Van Westrop said that while he can compete with Pilot, which operates as Pilot Flying J, on food and other goods, Pilot, the largest buyer of diesel fuel in the country, is simply too big for him to be able to compete with on diesel. He said the street price or the price at his pumps often …

During the NFL owners meeting in Boston earlier this week, Browns owner Jimmy Haslam took the opportunity to apologize to his 31 colleagues in light of the recent federal investigation into his truck-stop company, Pilot Flying J. Haslam offered a mea culpa for any damage he may have done to the NFL brand. The impromptu apology wasn’t …

The Environmental Protection Agency published a 377-page proposed rule in the Federal Register on Tuesday aimed at cutting tailpipe emissions from automobiles. The new tailpipe standards — called Tier 3 — would require refiners to reduce the sulfur content of gasoline by more than 60 percent and the amount of nitrogen oxides by 80 percent. …

From his seat 10 feet above Interstate 45, trucker Gary Babbitt takes a lofty view of the business he loves. Big rigs haul virtually everything in the U.S. to consumer markets, he says, from milk to medicine to Mercedes-Benzes. “Trucks and truck drivers are the pulse of this country,” said Babbitt, 61, a 40-year veteran …

KNOXVILLE — Another class-action lawsuit has been filed against Pilot Flying J in the continuing fallout from a federal investigation into claims of fuel-rebate fraud. The lawsuit filed by Osborn Transportation of Gadsden, AL, marks the sixth such case since federal agents raided Pilot’s corporate headquarters in Knoxville last month. Federal search warrants lay out claims of …