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Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. he Senate Energy Committee will probe high gasoline prices at a Sept. 8 hearing, the committee said in a statement.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. he U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the nation’s emergency stockpile of crude oil, has been filled to the 700 million-barrel level ordered by President George W. Bush after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Bloomberg reported.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor.Publicly traded trucking companies generally enjoyed a profitable second quarter, but Wall Street analysts have not been able to come to a consensus on where the industry was headed for 2006.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. alks resumed Friday at Northwest Airlines, the nation’s fourth-largest airline, after the company’s mechanics union rejected the airline’s latest contract offer Thursday, the Associated Press reported.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. ire makers Bridgestone Corp., Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and Michelin Cie each reported strong second-quarter earnings. The companies said higher tire prices and the strength of the North American commercial market helped them offset increased raw materials costs that earlier this month showed no sign of slowing down.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. ASHINGTON — Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration chief Annette Sandberg unveiled a new, slightly revised driver hours-of-service rule Friday.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. anufacturing growth in the Philadelphia area increased in August, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia reported Thursday.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. PS Inc. said it plans to order eight new Boeing 747-400 freighters, citing strong international volume growth. The Atlanta-based company, which operates the nation’s largest truck fleet and the world’s ninth-largest airline, said in a statement that the airplanes would increase capacity on its most important routes connecting Asia, Europe and North America.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. he Conference Board said Thursday its index of leading economic indicators rose 0.1% in July after surging a month earlier, the first back-to-back gain this year.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. Among the money set aside for the construction of bridges and highways as part of the just-enacted, six-year federal highway funding act was $25 million for a pilot project to increase the number of truck parking facilities along the nation’s highways.