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Sirius Converts Debt, Preferred Stock to Common Stock • Oshkosh Unveils New Command System • Heartland Drivers to Use Transflo Express •

PMA Still Has Not Produced Proof of Slowdown • Oil Prices Drops as War Talk Cools • Arkansas Best Boosts 3Q Earnings • Navistar to End Contract Extension With UAW • And more...

The average price of a gallon of diesel fuel rose 0.8 cent a gallon last week, moving the price of trucking's primary fuel to $1.469, the Department of Energy reported Monday.

The prices U.S. consumers paid for goods rose during September as energy, health car and automobile costs all pushed higher, the government said Friday.

Just three months after agreeing to a new two-year contract with its employees at its heavy-duty truck plant in Chatham, Ontario, International Truck and Engine Corp. said it will close the facility sometime in the summer of 2003.

NPTC, NCSTS Join ATA in Support of Unified Carrier Registration • USF to Sell Forwarding Companies • Intermodal Recovering After Dock Shutdown • S&P Boosts Outlook for J.B. Hunt • And more...

Sales of heavy-duty trucks soared 39.7% in September from a year earlier, as fleets continued to buy trucks with engines made before tougher federal emissions standards took effect Oct. 1.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Oct. 11 asked for comments on event-data recorders to help with motor-vehicle crash investigations.

Production at the nation's factories, mines and utilities dropped for two consecutive months for the first time this year, continuing August's 0.3% decline with a 0.1% drop in September, the Federal Reserve reported Thursday.

The number of new homes being built in the United States jumped 13.3% in September to an annual rate of 1.843 million – the highest in 16 years, the Commerce Department said.