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For-hire and private fleets said last week they were preparing to celebrate National Truck Driver Appreciation Week with an array of activities to fete their drivers.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. hile most of the globe’s denizens hail the victors in the arenas of Athens this week, those who read this page are also mindful of heroes of another sort — those who ply their skills and abilities on the quieter stage of daily commerce.

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach will extent its hours later this year as it attempts to ease truck traffic.

The average retail price for diesel fuel in the United States rose 4.9 cents to $1.874 per gallon, the fourth straight week it has set a record high, the Department of Energy said Monday.

President Bush praised the "strong work ethic and professionalism" of America's truck drivers in a proclamation for National Truck Driver Appreciation Week.

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SCS Transportation Inc. said Monday its net income for the third quarter would be between 41 cents and 47 cents per share, lower than its previous guidance of 51 cents to 57 cents.

Officials in Louisiana, California and New York recently said the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency had not responded to their requests to use gasoline blends without the oxygenate known as ethanol, which is an EPA requirement in those states.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. t wasn’t too long ago that fleet owners were never exactly sure where their trailers were at a specific time. Of the 3 million to 5 million detachable trailers in the United States, as many as 10% go unaccounted for at a given moment.