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The price of diesel fuel remained virtually static last week, according to a report released Monday by the Department of Energy.

Trucking won several major regulatory victories in 2001, beginning with the rollback of a mandatory worker protection program that would have cost the industry billions of dollars annually to implement.

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The U.S. unemployment rate increased to 5.8% in December and payrolls declined by 124,000, the Labor Department said Friday.

A powerful storm that has been blamed for 10 deaths, thousands of traffic accidents and widespread disruption of business operations, including trucking, has begun to taper off in the South, news services reported.

The amount of money spent in the U.S. for construction projects rose 0.8% in November, marking the second straight month of increase, a government report said Thursday.

A new Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration policy, effective immediately, should make it easier for trucking companies to expunge nonpreventable accidents from their safety records and perhaps improve their safety ratings, according to regulators.

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Trucking matters like road congestion that were of primary concern as 2001 began were largely put aside by the issue of security immediately after the September terrorist attacks.

In the process of cleaning up its commercial driver licensing system, Florida is implementing changes that include computerized testing, according to Sandra Lambert, the state’s director of the division of drivers’ licenses.