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The Environmental Protection Agency has released its model idling law, recommending that heavy-duty truck idling be limited to 30 minutes when loading and unloading and five minutes in most other circumstances.

The national average price of diesel fuel declined for the first time in eight weeks, dropping 3.2 cents to $2.888 a gallon, the Energy Department reported Monday.

Chinese exports to Southern California’s ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach will grow 10.2% in 2006 from last year’s record $102 billion, according to a report by the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp., the Associated Press reported.

Truckload carrier Heartland Express said Thursday it promoted Michael Gerdin to become its president.

Even after 14 years in the trucking industry, I cannot understand why our industry devours itself as referenced in a letter in your April 24 issue on the controversy surrounding the use of longer, heavier trucks.

A key House committee panel criticized the Department of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøland Security before ap-proving a $32.1 billion spending plan for the agency, the Associated Press reported.

Crude oil fell to below $69 a barrel Friday after Iran called a meeting with United Nations officials positive, Bloomberg reported.

The pace of manufacturing growth in the Philadelphia area rose in May, even as costs rose, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia said Thursday.

The index of U.S. leading economic indicators declined 0.1% in April, the Conference Board reported Thursday.

The Transportation Security Administration late Wednesday announced new air cargo security requirements aimed at protecting the more than 50,000 tons of cargo transported aboard passenger and cargo aircraft each day.