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Oil slipped below $97 a barrel in early trading Monday, continuing to hold in the mid-$90s per-barrel range it’s been in for the past month, Bloomberg reported.

The Manufacturers of Emission Controls Association said its members sold 24,640 diesel engine retrofit devices in 2010.

The Manufacturers of Emission Controls Association said even though its members installed more than 24,000 diesel retrofit devices last year, more government incentives are needed to upgrade the older diesel engines in operation.

Volvo AB said July 11 it is updating its Condor line of medium-duty trucks for sale in Japan by its UD Trucks division, effective July 12.

The Internal Revenue Service is advising truckers and other owners of heavy highway vehicles that their next federal highway use tax return, normally due Aug. 31, will instead be due Nov. 30.

WASHINGTON — Legislation introduced in the Senate would provide tax credits of up to $24,000 to defray the cost of purchasing hybrid and electric heavy- and medium-duty trucks.

American Trucking Associations’ latest study of driver trends shows a continued aging of the driver corps, lower pay for independent contractors and a wide variation in wage-increase policies.

Michael Card, second vice chairman of American Trucking Associations, urged insurance underwriters in London last week to re-enter the U.S. trucking market.

U.S. regulators and U.S. truckers who do business in Mexico said they are skeptical that Mexican carriers will participate in the cross-border trucking program in large numbers when the pilot project gets into full swing in the next 60 days.