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Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. he frustration truckers feel over surging fuel costs began to spill over in recent days, with protests first on the West Coast and then in the East.

Environmental Protection Agency head Mike Leavitt on Tuesday signed new regulations that would cut air pollution from tractors, bulldozers and other off-road diesel vehicles by over 90%, news services reported..

Goodyear Claims Chemical Companies Fixed Prices • Trailer Bridge Sees 2004 Volumes Increasing • Report: UPS Seeks U.S. Help on Adding China Routes • Number of Interstate Trucks Registered in Illinois Decreases • Central Freight Reports 1Q Loss • And more...

Gasoline prices rose by more than 10 cents per gallon in the past two weeks, the biggest jump since last August, the Lundberg survey of stations nationwide said.

Both truckers and officials with the Port of Oakland said they expected the strike by independent truckers to end on Monday after the sides reached a deal over the weekend, news services reported.

STUTTGART, Germany — DaimlerChrysler, the world’s largest truck maker, still intends to use selective catalytic reduction for its Freightliner LLC vehicles to meet stricter U.S. emissions rules in 2010, a top executive said here last week.

Although states and industry officials have called for the federal government to help ease problems of motor fuel supplies and high prices around the country, spokesmen for two key federal programs said last week there had been no changes in policy.

Truckers Seeking Out Wireless Internet Technology • XM's Net Loss Widens in 1Q • Stonepath Reports Net Loss Despite Revenue Growth • Minorplanet to Remain Conditionally Listed on Nasdaq

Union Pacific Sued Over Using Managers to Run Trains • DOT's Transportation Index Rises in February • UPS Raises Buyback Plan to $1 Billion • NHTSA: International, GM Recall Some Trucks • And more...

The Labor Department said Friday that U.S. companies added a total of 288,000 workers to payrolls in April, including 21,000 manufacturing positions, the most in that sector since July 2000.