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The average price of diesel fuel has increased nearly 7 cents per gallon since Tuesday's terrorist attacks in the United States, according to T-Chek Systems.

The series of terrorist attacks on Tuesday morning in the United States grounded freight airliners throughout the country, forcing trucks into action to carry freight normally shipped on airplanes.

William J. Canary, interim president and chief executive officer of the American Trucking Associations issued a statement in response to Tuesday's terrorist attacks in the United States. In addition, ATA noted that emergency rules under Federal Motor Carriers Safety Regulations had been triggered, including provisions on drivers' service hours.

The following is a listing of route closings in the New York area as of 5 p.m. EDT from Transcom, a coalition of highway, transit and public safety agencies in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

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Click here to write your own Letter to the Editor. he Aug. 27 Transport Topics carried the news that the ATA National Truck Driving Championships Sontheimer Award was being renamed as the Professional Excellence Award because the NTDC Committee decided after the 2000 contest that “too few people could recall who Sontheimer was.”

Mexican President Vicente Fox has rightfully demanded that the United States open its border to qualified truckers from his country, as required by the terms of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Former President Jimmy Carter’s chief economic adviser, Alfred Kahn, once got in so much trouble by uttering the dread word “recession” in public that he promised from then on to say “banana” instead of recession.

The Environmental Protection Agency denied three petitions by industry groups asking the federal agency to re-examine Clinton-era rules requiring cleaner diesel trucks and buses, the Associated Press reported.