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PNV Inc., whose cable TV and phone hookups are popping up in parking lots, is now offering Internet kiosks inside truck stops.

The fall in orders for new trucks and the rise in cancellations — factors that have prompted production cutbacks among several Class 8 manufacturers this year — have yet to reach the sales side of the market, which was up slightly in January from the same period in 1999.

The Single State Registration System was supposed to be a rest stop on the road to elimination of state registration requirements.

The coalition fighting to retain the repeal of Oregon’s weight-distance tax sued the state’s chapter of the American Automobile Association, claiming AAA is airing false ads in trying to convince voters to keep the truck tax system.

ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø heating oil delivery carriers would be able to apply for seasonal exemptions from federal hours-of-service regulations beginning Nov. 1 under a pilot program proposed last week.

The restructuring of American Trucking Associations into a Washington lobbying powerhouse entered its final phase Feb. 8 as its executive committee unanimously approved a $49.8 million budget that increases the group’s focus on national advocacy and initiates a second round of dues cuts.

Frustrated truckers in the Northeast parked their rigs, organized protests at two state capitals and halted activity at one of the nation’s busiest seaports as the price of diesel fuel continued to soar throughout the region.

When bugs go splat into a windshield rather than follow the air flow up and over a tractor-trailer, it may be proof of a costly lack of aerodynamics and an even costlier loss of fuel efficiency, especially in this period of high diesel prices.

One of trucking’s best-known and most articulate advocates is heading down the road.