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The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance said 23.9% of the 52,345 vehicles that underwent comprehensive inspections during Roadcheck last month were placed out of service, the lowest percentage in the program’s 21-year history.

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High fuel prices are dampening demand for diesel and gasoline, and more Americans will stay home this Fourth of July holiday than last year, a truck stop trade group said Thursday.

The U.S. economy’s service sector contracted in June as prices reached a record high and employment reached a record low, the Institute for Supply Management said Thursday.

U.S. manufacturing levels expanded in June for the first time in five months, the Institute for Supply Management said Tuesday.

An executive with Pilot Travel Centers said the number of diesel fuel thefts has soared this year.

Hey, no problem — go ahead and limit the speed. That’s what you would expect from a socialist country. The truckers will simply move south — to a free country.

Large-scale manufacturing of 550-horsepower, 13-liter diesel truck engines that can run for a million miles is such a complicated endeavor that, since 1990, EPA has given engine makers some short-term wiggle room on hitting emissions targets through its averaging, banking and trading program.

Florida’s Environmental Regulation Commission has approved a rule barring heavy-duty trucks from idling longer than five minutes.