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Due to slow sales, truck maker Paccar reported first-quarter earnings of $44.3 million or 58 cents per share, well below last year’s $154.9 million or $1.98 per share. Net sales for the quarter were down 34% to $1.5 billion.

U.S. gasoline prices leaped by nearly 13 cents per gallon to $1.67 in the past two weeks, according to the Lundberg Survey of 8,000 gasoline stations, news services reported.

W.A. “Bill” Ward, president of Ward International Trucks in Mobile, Ala., was named Dealer of the Year by the American Truck Dealers division of the National Automobile Dealers Association.

Study Finds 80,000 Trucks Crossed Border in 1999; QCL Buys First of Several Ga. Fueling Centers; 3M to Cut 5,000 Jobs; Delta Pilots Reach Agreement With Management; and more...

BALTIMORE -- In his keynote address on Saturday, American Truck Dealers Chairman Stanley DeVore of Casper Truck Center pleaded with truck manufacturers to "stop changing the rules of the game."

The U.S. average pump price for diesel fuel rose 0.6 cent in the past week, to 144.3 cents per gallon as of April 23, the Energy Department reported Monday.

Texas Instruments Developing Quick Data Chip; Cell Signal Ban Spreads Outside Canada; N.J. Cancels New Area Code; and New Handheld Features May Burden Users.

In positive indication of the economy’s direction, truck drivers are beginning to see an uptick in their business, the New York Times reported Sunday.

NAPLES, Fla. - Five disciplined, powerful, high-ranking trucking executives were given an assignment and all of them avoided it. There was just too much selling to do.