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Truck manufacturers said they are prepared to boost production to meet increasing demand in 2011, although some experts warned shortages of key components could develop as suppliers struggle to keep up with what could be one of the strongest sales markets in years.

U.S. retail diesel has sold at a premium over gasoline throughout 2010, and petroleum market watchers said global competition for the trucking industry’s main fuel likely means that will not change any time soon.

Google’s recent move to forsake Net Neutrality — the premise that all content on the Web should be distributed evenhandedly — threatens to have serious consequences for trucking companies’ websites, especially if other Internet titans follow suit.

Oil traded near a two-year high close to $90 early Monday as a report showed continued high demand in China, Bloomberg reported.

Ensuring the safe delivery of every load should be a top priority in the trucking industry. Yet, even with the most sophisticated technologies and best risk-management techniques, bad things can happen to good people — or good carriers.

There is no driver shortage for organizations that understand productivity, process capability and continuous improvement. How the organization thinks determines the extent of driver retention and whether a driver shortage is real or just an outcome of poor management.

There are worrisome signs that commodities speculators are returning to the nation’s fuel markets, pushing prices higher than the normal forces of supply and demand would warrant.

The president of the National Tank Truck Carriers has asked the National Transportation Safety Board to reopen its investigation into a fatal 1997 tank truck accident in Yonkers, N.Y., that he said has become the “poster child” of the agency’s campaign to require purge retrofits for cargo tank wetlines.

U.S. biomass-based diesel producers have the capacity to meet an 800 million-gallon federal mandate in 2011, despite a marked decline in biodiesel production over the past year and a failure by Congress so far to reinstate a $1 per gallon biodiesel tax credit, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and industry experts.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has issued new rules that will require brokers working with household goods movers to provide more information to consumers.