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Vice President Al Gore on Thursday morning called on President Clinton to tap the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve, to push down high fuel prices before winter hits, news agencies are reporting.

Canada’s National Safety Code for trucking is being implemented inconsistently at the provincial level, according to a federal study.

The executive vice president of the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association says American Trucking Associations is hurting his group’s efforts to get a national fuel surcharge law by remaining neutral on the plan.

Anyone who has an opinion about federal recordkeeping requirements for motor carriers has until Nov. 6 to tell the government about it.

In the news this morning: Oil prices fall on Gore's call to tap reserve; DaimlerChrysler truck profit up, but only slightly; European ministers can't agree on fuel taxes; and more.

U.S. Energy Secretary Bill Richardson said Thursday a decision by President Clinton on whether to tap into the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve was “imminent,” Reuters reports.

Today's technology headlines: Metricom expands its high-speed wireless services; new e-commerce Tool levels Internet playing field for smaller carriers; Aether buys Motient's transport communications unit; and more.

This afternoon's headlines: Rising fuel prices may hammer European truck sales; Summers says Gore's plan to tap SPR could be appropriate; Oklahoma not OK as fire spreads; and more news to come.

Diesel fuel prices rose two cents a gallon to a new record again last week against a backdrop of rising economic concern that could finally overcome White House resistance to tapping the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

The wave of fuel price protests by truckers and their allies that swept across Europe in recent days staggered the economy of several countries, threatened others and posed a direct challenge to government leaders and their tax policies.