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Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. he last five years have been tough years for our industry. Many have failed, and just about everyone has struggled. I see the next few years as being even more challenging, but in a different way.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. espite the fact that average retail diesel prices recently rose above $2 a gallon, trucking fleets have so far expressed little new concern about fuel costs, amid muted reaction from their freight shippers..

Steve Williams, who became the 59th chairman of American Trucking Associations Oct. 7, said he believes there is a transportation crisis looming that will challenge trucking in several fundamental ways and that he wants to strengthen the trucking federation so it can lead the industry to confront the crisis.

UAW Approves Three-Year Contract With Mack • Highway Bill Remains Stalled in Congress • Universal Express Purchases Majority Stake in Alpine Air • Delays Hampering Canadian Ports, CP Reports

The average national retail price of gasoline rose 8 cents per gallon over the past two weeks, fueled by the record price of crude oil, according to the Lundberg survey of stations nationwide.

LAS VEGAS — Information — gathering, disseminating, analyzing and applying it — is the next driving wheel of truck making, leading truck manufacturers said Oct. 6 in their panel discussion during American Truck Associations’ Management Conference & Exhibition here.

EPA Awards Grant to Iowa School District • Terion Unveils FleetView for Refrigerated Trailers • Report: Toll Collect Pays $150 Million for Delay.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Surveying an assembly of 350 customers or business partners, the founder of McLeod Software Inc. said the turnout at his company’s annual Users’ Conference would have been even greater if truckers weren’t so busy.

Daimler Says Commercial Vehicles Earnings To Rise Despite Mitsubishi Costs • Rail Carloadings, Intermodal Shipments Rise in September • Crude Oil Rises, Heating Oil Hits Intraday Record