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Click here to write a Letter to the Editor.Speed kills. While that’s not exactly a news flash, it does seem that most of us try to forget that simple truism in the hurly-burly rush of our daily lives. And that includes truck drivers.

SAN ANTONIO — A Mexican trucking industry official complained here that U.S. rules for Mexican carriers delivering in the United States are discriminatory, and transportation barriers between the two countries will remain unless the U.S. provisions are implemented in a more equitable way.

WASHINGTON — The head of Yellow Corp., one of the nation’s largest less-than-truckload carriers, wants speed limits for trucks capped at 65 miles per hour across the nation, and he said Yellow will divert part of its advertising budget to trumpet the cause of highway safety.

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The Texas Motor Transportation Association bought a $1-million truck-driving simulator to improve safety for truckers and car drivers.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is having to completely recalculate the numbers of people it alleges are harmed by fine-particulate air-pollution emissions due to a flaw in computer programs it used to produce its estimates.

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The price of diesel fuel fell by 1.4 cents per gallon to a national average of $1.286 last week, the U.S. Department of Energy reported Monday.

Transport Topics needs your help in identifying drivers who have accumulated 4 million or more accident-free miles for a special report.