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As reports of fluctuations in the price of oil swirl throughout the news media, one thing remains certain: It is costing a lot more to fill up with diesel fuel this year — and it is likely to cost even more in the near future.

The Los Angeles area has the nation’s most brutal traffic, according to two studies of urban road congestion.

When a trucker is hauling a triple through a steep mountain pass, the last thing he needs is to be surprised by an ice storm. That’s why the Utah Motor Transportation Association’s winter weather command center prides itself on keeping truckers up-to-date on road conditions across the state and beyond.

The New Jersey Turnpike Authority wants to raise tolls 26% over the next three years on truckers paying cash at tollbooths. Discounted fares would be available to truckers taking advantage of E-ZPass, the state’s electronic toll collection system.

By Dec. 1, all trucking company employees who use forklifts must be trained in the vehicles’ use under an Occupational Safety and Health Administration rule.

C.H. Robinson Worldwide, the nation’s largest freight broker and a major non-asset-based transportation service provider, is buying one of its biggest competitors, American Backhaulers of Chicago.

North American Van Lines and Allied Van Lines completed a $450 million merger to create the world’s largest household goods mover.

Trucking had much to be thankful for as the nation celebrated the Thanksgiving holiday — a solid economy generating plenty of business, greater public awareness of the importance of good highways, and now the realization of a long-held dream: Trucking will get its own government agency in Washington.

Everyone in our industry who operates a forklift — powered industrial truck, in government parlance — should be extensively trained and evaluated before December 1, under a federal regulation that kicked in earlier this year.