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In this afternoon's headlines: Resurging fuel prices an outrage, says Teamsters' Hoffa; Truckers on the road can expect some cuts in phone costs; As economy taps its brakes, will interest rates soon stop rising?; Frozen food express amends financing pact; Investment firm to buy truck stop operator TravelCenters; Delia Moon Meier: A natural for the truck stop business; and The business of moving oversized loads.

The Environmental Protection Agency and American Trucking Associations will face off in the U.S. Supreme Court on how air pollution standards are set.

With fleet insurance rates on the rise, conventional wisdom might be to aggressively shop your insurance program for the cheapest rate. Such a strategy at this time may well prove disastrous for unlucky trucking firms.

Trucking insiders have given an emphatic thumbs-up to the appointment of Clyde J. Hart Jr. as acting deputy administrator at the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

A sharp rise in insurance rates is forcing truck companies to accept more risk as well as incur higher operating costs. The problem could reach crisis levels before long, some observers say, and may even push some truckers out of business.

Rep. Lee Terry wants to stop the proposed hours-of-service rules dead in their tracks.

In-truck computers to monitor driver hours were endorsed by some of the largest trucking companies in the country when the Arkansas Trucking Association voted last week to support the proposed federal mandate for “black boxes” on trucks.

Three major trailer leasing companies are spending millions to put conspicuity tape on the trailers and containers used by their customers before a June 1, 2001, federal deadline.

As if a chicken’s life weren’t tough enough — cooped up, pecking at seeds, people taking your eggs — now poultry in Canada has to go out and work for a living.

Last winter’s stark scene of high fuel prices and truck protests outside Capitol Hill have left some members of Congress hoping that history doesn’t repeat itself this coming season.