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This letter is about the recent Opinion piece by Kathryn Clements on driver health.

German truck maker MAN AG secured European Union approval to buy Swedish competitor Scania AB and create Europe’s largest maker of commercial vehicles, Bloomberg reported Wednesday.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. olls on the Ohio Turnpike will increase starting Jan. 1, though not to levels as high as those in 2004, American Trucking Associations said.

Crude oil prices rose to their highest level in three months Wednesday following a bigger-than-expected drop in inventories, Bloomberg reported.

The driver turnover rate among large truckload carriers jumped to 121% in the third quarter from 110% in the second, American Trucking Associations said Tuesday.

Volvo AB’s 2006 worldwide truck sales through November rose 3% as trucking companies replaced aging fleets, though U.S. increases were more modest, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.

The producer price index jumped 2% in November, the most since 1974, the Labor Department said Tuesday.

The proposed acquisition of Swedish truck maker Scania AB by Germany MAN AG’s of would be more like a “merger of equals” than a takeover, MAN Chief Executive Officer Hakan Samuelsson said in an interview published in the Wall Street Journal Tuesday.

The national average price of diesel fuel fell 1.5 cents to $2.606 a gallon, the Department of Energy said Monday.

U.S. new housing starts rebounded in November from the lowest level in six years, but building permits fell to a nine-year low, the Commerce Department said Tuesday.