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American Trucking Associations named its driver and safety manager of the year at the associations’ Safety and Loss Prevention Management Council fall conference Sept. 22 and announced the winners of its 2004 National Truck Safety Contest the same day.

Trucks May Be Allowed to Use High-Speed Ferry to Cross Border • Ridge Says U.S.-Mexico Border Won't be Militarized • ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøland Security to Turn N.M. Into Anti-Terror Location

Consumer Confidence Index Falls in September • FedEx Shareholders Approve Increase in Shares for Stock Options • Bush Asks Congress for More Aid as Florida Recovers From Jeanne • FKI Logistex Wins Contract From Postal Service • And more...

HANOVER, Germany — Demand for new heavy-duty trucks in North America has grown to 300,000 units for this year, but supply shortages and production constraints will limit sales by truck makers to no more than 250,000, according to Rainer Schmueckle, chief executive officer of Freightliner LLC.

The average retail price of diesel fuel in the United States rose 10 cents per gallon to $2.012, the first time the national average has risen above $2, the Department of Energy reported Monday.

The price of crude oil in New York exceeded a record $50 a barrel on Tuesday as Nigerian rebels threatened oil output and U.S. Gulf of Mexico supplies remained almost a third below normal, Bloomberg reported.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. ANOVER, Germany - At the world’s biggest truck show — the International Motor Show for Commercial Vehicles, held every other year at the massive fairgrounds of this city — 1,361 vendors from 39 countries displayed their wares in 11 exhibition halls, utilizing 2.4 million square feet of floor space.

New ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Sales Rise 9.4% in August • Delays Increasing at L.A., Long Beach Ports • Stonepath Group to Restate Earnings

The price of crude oil neared $50 a barrel in New York, and hit a new record in New York and in London on Monday amid concern rebel attacks in Nigeria would reduce production as U.S. refiners continue to struggle to replenish supplies disrupted by Hurricane Ivan, Bloomberg reported..

HANOVER, Germany — Freightliner LLC has begun a program to voluntarily upgrade 30,000 of the earliest engines that its Detroit Diesel Corp. subsidiary produced beginning with the 2003 model year to comply with new emissions rules in the United States.