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Diesel fuel prices jumped to the highest level on record last week as buyers continue to react to low inventories and political turmoil threatens to disrupt supplies of imported oil from the Middle East.

President Clinton has warned Congress that he intends to veto its new Labor Department appropriations bill because it contains a prohibition on developing new ergonomics rules for the nation’s industries.

Despite the explosion in trade between the United States and Canada — from $211 billion in 1993 to $364 billion in 1999, most of which is carried on trucks — the North American Free Trade Agreement is not working as well as it could, says the chief executive officer of the Canadian Trucking Alliance, Canada’s equivalent of American Trucking Associations.

Drayage truckers continued their protests over delays at the Port of Savannah last week.

Public access to crash data generated by voice or video recorders on trucks will be restricted if President Clinton signs the National Transportation Safety Board reauthorization bill.

Sleep researchers say they have found a way for long-haul truck drivers to combat fatigue while still working with the current hours-of-service regulations.

Fresh from a victory in the hours-of-service issue, won in part by a united stand within the industry, for-hire interstate motor carriers and their representatives wrestled among themselves over how to approach efforts to sink the Single State Registration System.

In choosing to attend law school, Robert A. Hirsch fervently hoped he would not have to follow in the footsteps of his father, who made a living selling vacuum cleaners door to door.

A convoy of trucks — toy trucks — will be arriving at homes in the San Diego area after American Trucking Associations completes its annual Management Conference and Exhibition.