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An improving economy, along with the pending federal changes in driver work hours, are creating new competition for drivers for a growing number of trucking firms, forcing some to raise compensation for the first time in years, according to trucking company officials and industry analysts.

New rules on handling hazardous materials do not go far enough in setting needed uniform guidelines, but they do help in other areas, trucking industry officials said last week.

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The Department of Energy said Monday the average retail price of diesel fuel in the United States declined 0.5 cent to $1.476 per gallon.

Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-Colo.) has introduced an industry-backed bill designed to make sure that only roadworthy truck chassis are released by shipyards and railyards for truckers to haul in intermodal operations.

Reflecting carriers’ optimism about the business outlook for trucking, several truck and engine makers recently pointed to a stabilizing market for their products, more orders, higher build rates and gains in new customers as reasons they believed business should improve through the end of the year and into 2004.

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NEW YORK — Motor carriers said they soon would increase freight rates and more stringently enforce collection of detention fees to offset the expected costs of lost productivity and higher driver wages resulting from new federal work rules.

Mileage on heavy-duty diesel engines designed to meet the October 2002 emissions requirements is accumulating to the point that maintenance issues have become a major topic for discussion at the first-ever meeting in Canada of the Technology & Maintenance Council, organizers said.