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All but one of the nation’s four major railroads have provided detailed plans as requested by the U.S. Surface Transportation Board on how they intend to meet the peak freight-shipping season now setting in, STB Chairman Roger Nober told Transport Topics.

The national average retail price for diesel fuel rose 2.6 cents to a record $1.78 per gallon, the U.S. Department of Energy said Monday.

Hurricane Alex Hits N.C. Coast • ArvinMeritor Retirees Under 65 to Pay More for Health Care • Kenan Advantage Files for IPO • Profits Rise at Frozen Food Express • And more...

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. he U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., has issued a 3-0 decision that the hours-of-service rules are no good for driver health and the motoring public’s safety. Good for the judges.

The Institute for Supply Management said Monday its manufacturing index for July rose to 62 from 61.1 the month before..

In response to the government’s terror warning announced on Sunday, commercial trucks have been banned from entering New York City via the Holland Tunnel and Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, news services reported.

American Trucking Associations has joined 11 other trade associations requesting a meeting with Environmental Protection Agency officials to try to head off possible tightening of air quality standards for fine particulate matter in the agency’s planned review of a 1997 regulation.

Bob Maddocks, president of Software vendor Maddocks Systems, told Transport Topics he expected his company’s acquisition by Digital Dispatch Systems to go through as planned by Sept. 17.

Construction Spending Declines From Record in June • Tropical Storm Expected to Hit N.C. on Tuesday • Iraq's Oil Exports Drop in July • ATA Says Truck Tonnage Jumps 11% • And more...

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