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WASHINGTON — A Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration official said the agency may devote more resources to checking drivers and fewer toward inspecting trucks if an ongoing study concludes drivers are the main cause of truck crashes.

The basic concerns of supply chain management may not have changed all that much since terrorists attacked the United States approximately one year ago.

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The national average price of diesel fuel rose 3.7 cents a gallon last week to $1.37, the U.S. Department of Energy reported Monday.

Truck manufacturer Navistar International Corp. plans to cut as many as 2,000 jobs at its plants in Springfield, Ohio, and Indianapolis, a company spokesman told Transport Topics Friday.

The amount of cargo carried by U.S. trucks fell 8.7% in June from the previous month, the American Trucking Associations said.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Truckers on Canada's West Coast were closely watching labor negotiations between U.S. longshoremen and the Pacific Maritime Association as port container traffic here increased.

The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance criticized as unsafe a recent Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration internal policy decision under which agency field staff would ignore violations or accidents by truckers on intrastate trips in determining safety ratings.

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