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Business
Diesel drops 4th week in row
The price declined 3.4 cents to $2.946 in the latest week and has dropped 18.1 cents over the past four weeks.
June 7, 2010
Business
Los Angeles port says emissions dropped
Diesel particulate matter emissions in 2009 dropped by 37 percent from 2008 and nitrogen oxide emissions fell 28 percent.
June 7, 2010
Business
Roadcheck begins Tuesday
Last year, the vehicle compliance rate of 80.4 percent was the highest since 1996, CVSA said. The driver compliance rate of 95.7 percent was the highest ever.
June 7, 2010
Roadcheck will cover North America.
Channel 19
Good ink on Missouri truck driving championships
Among drive-image-building efforts that are decades-long institutions are the yearly state truck-driving championships, which in 2010 will culminate in the final national competition Aug. 3-7 at the Greater Columbus Convention Center. The efficacy of the championships in the image arena was on full display in this story, published Sunday in the Springfield, Mo., News-Leader, about […]
June 7, 2010
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LaHood responds to ATA letter
The June 3 letter responded to an ATA letter in which the ATA said the DOT appeared to disproportionately support non-truck transport.
June 5, 2010
Business
Agency changes hours docs policy
The FMCSA will relieve carriers that use electronic mobile communications of maintaining other supporting documents to verify driver logs.
June 4, 2010
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Business
Trucking jobs added in May
With strong gains in April and May, the trucking industry virtually has erased previous job losses for the year.
June 4, 2010
Business
FTR: Truck orders off in May
Class 8 truck total net orders for all major North American OEMs were at 12,903 units, a 9.8 percent decline from April.
June 4, 2010
Channel 19
From fuel price ‘nightmares’ to trucking book
Writer Mary Richardson, whom Atlanta-based Creative Loafing describes as a former editor with the Truckers Connection publication, had what she describes as “nightmares” during relatively modest spikes in fuel prices during the year 2006, shortly after she started working there. She “was having these apocalyptic nightmares about fuel prices getting so high that trucks would stop,” she […]
June 4, 2010
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Business
FMCSA hearings planned
Hearings will be on on several areas including hours of service, electronic on-board recorders and household movers.
June 4, 2010
Business
California refrigerated unit appeal denied
An appeals court has denied the American Trucking Associations’ request for rehearing challenging CARB authority.
June 4, 2010
Business
I-435 work to slow traffic
Nighttime pavement recycling operations on I-435 in the Kansas City, Mo., area will reduce traffic to one lane.
June 3, 2010
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