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Three mobile communications companies Tuesday announced a new service that will deliver turn-by-turn spoken information to truck drivers via mobile phones.

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Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. img src="http://www.ttnews.com/images/printeditiontag_new.gif" width=120 align=right>Trucking officials said they expected legislators soon would introduce in Congress a measure providing financial incentives to fleets that purchase the next generation of cleaner-burning diesel engines in 2007.

Truckload carrier Schneider National said Monday it was working with Atlas Ergonomics to provide in-cab health and safety improvements for more than 12,000 truck drivers.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. olvo Technology, a unit of the Volvo Group, has created a new company jointly owned with Statoil that will develop fuel cells for truck idling.

Ongoing capacity constraints among carriers and the prospect of permanently higher shipping costs are forcing logistics managers to re-examine the way freight is moved.

The average price for all grades of gasoline fell 1.65 cents a gallon over the past three weeks to $2.16 a gallon, according to the Lundberg survey of filling stations nationwide.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. olonial Pipeline’s decision to delay delivery of ultra-low-sulfur diesel fuel to New York until sometime in 2007 has some trucking and pipeline industry officials worried that the Northeast could experience an initial shortage of the fuel.

Shipping rates for major commodities such as coal, iron ore and grain have fallen almost 25% in the past six weeks, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

Federal regulators Monday cleared UPS Inc.’s purchase of less-than-truckload carrier Overnite Corp. of antitrust concerns, paving the way for the acquisition to be completed, Bloomberg reported.