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The price of diesel rose 1.5 cents through the week leading up to the Fourth of July holiday, hitting $1.102 a gallon. The national average reported July 5 marked the fourth consecutive week of increases and took fuel to a 17-month high, nearing the $1.109 average posted Jan. 19, 1998.

Members of the Teamsters union voted by a 4-1 margin to ratify a four-year contract with unionized carhaulers, ending a negotiation process that began in February.

Trimac Transportation prepared to expand its operations between the United States and Mexico by acquiring an 80% interest in Amer-Liquid Transport of Brownsville, Texas, and signing a deal to do business with the bulk transporter’s former owner.

Why are today’s trucking stocks priced so low? One analyst says they are paying for the failed expectations of the mid-90s, perhaps undeservedly. But he indicated that conditions may be right for them to soar again.

American Trucking Associations operates just like every other business in the industry: It provides services in return for payments it receives from its customers. Unlike its commercial brethren, ATA isn’t looking to record profits to return to its owners and stockholders. But it does seek to provide services and to break even financially.

I recently went on a run with my husband in an 18-wheeler, and it came to my attention that some people look down on truck drivers. They don’t realize what the truck driver has to go through. I’d like to take this opportunity to explain it to you.

It is almost Shakespearean: Norfolk Southern and CSX, set to divide Conrail, ignored the warnings of three rattled spirits labeled UP, SP and CNW, and, for their hubris, were brought low. Out. Out. Damned computer glitch!

Refrigerated carriers gather July 14 to 16 for the annual meeting of the Truckload Carriers Association’s Refrigerated Division in Colorado to discuss how to improve the workplace for truckers..

A bill to raise the state's gas tax was approved Tuesday by an Oregon Senate committee, but the full Senate may shoot down the bill, which includes a provision to end the state's weight-mile tax.