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Existing home sales fell 0.5% in August, declining for the first time since 1995, the National Association of Realtors said Monday.

Gasoline prices fell 24 cents in the past two weeks to $2.42 a gallon, according to the latest Lundberg Survey of filling stations released Sunday.

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AUSTIN, Texas — Technician Tyson Sontag, who works for the private fleet of McKee Foods in Gentry, Ark., outperformed 81 other competitors to win the SuperTech2006 national skills competition for truck technicians held here during the fall meeting of the Technology & Maintenance Council.

American Trucking Associations on Monday said it supported the Virginia Department of Transportation’s decision not to build truck-only toll lanes along Interstate 81.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. A top official with the Truckload Carriers Association called a recent article outlining the billions of dollars U.S. consumers are allegedly being overcharged for fuel dispensed at high temperatures “jaw dropping,” and said it warranted further study by the trucking industry.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) vetoed on Friday a bill that would have imposed a shipping fee on containers passing through the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, the Los Angeles Times reported.

The northbound truck lane of the Pacific Highway’s U.S.-Canada border crossing in Washington state will close for about a year, beginning Oct. 2, the Bellingham Herald newspaper reported Friday.

FedEx will purchase and upgrade about 90 Boeing 757-200s to replace its fleet of Boeing 757s, Bloomberg reported Monday.

The Environmental Protection Agency last Thursday awarded a $2.1 million diesel pollution grant to the state of New Jersey, $1 million of which will be used to electrify truck parking spaces.