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House Approves $550 Billion Tax-Cut Bill • Ex-Freightliner CEO Hebe Purchases Seagrave • Michigan Senate Votes Down Potential Diesel Tax Hike • OPEC Invites Non-Members to June Meeting • And more...

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Although the number of Americans filing initial applications for unemployment benefits declined by 28,000 last week, it remained above the key 400,000 level for the 12th week in a row, the longest stretch since 1992.

Compliance with the new hours-of-service rules will increase trucking companies’ net cost by $611 million a year and require them to hire an additional 84,300 drivers, hitting small fleets the hardest, according to an analysis done for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

Railroad holding company Kansas City Southern said it would spend $200 million in cash and stock to create a unified rail network that could haul freight from Mexico City to St. Louis.

Conn. Senate Votes to Postpone Ban on MTBE • Most IRP Sanctions Against Oklahoma Lifted • Number of Speeding Tickets Surge in California • Patriot Sells Property to Subsidiary • And more...

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Sales at U.S. wholesalers increased twice as much as inventories in March, while the inventory-to-sales ratio, a measure of how long goods remain unsold, fell to a record-low of 1.21 months.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor.Rising fuel prices this spring rocked the trucking industry. It’s not enough that the economy is slow and security costs have increased, record-high diesel made for a real misery hat trick.