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A proposal that would require fuel surcharges to benefit independent truckers will get a June 8 hearing on Capitol Hill.

In this mornings headlines: Hearings begin on the controversial hours-of-service rule change; Low extends offer for KLLM; Ports strain to keep up with Asian imports; Trucking company owner sentenced in arson plot; G.I. Trucking implements large fleet expansion; and Nissan truck-building unit reports past-year loss.

The National Transportation Safety Board says part of the truck parking problem is that when all the usual spaces are filled, drivers do not know where to go after a day on the road.

William “Jack” Liles III is on the threshold of losing KLLM Transport Services to Robert E. Low of Prime Inc., as Liles’s financing to buy the company has fallen through.

The Information Technology and Logistics Council, unable to decide among three less-than-ideal options about its future, chose to go back to the drawing board.

It has been a good year for Doug Lauer.

James Welch becomes president and chief operating officer of Yellow Corp. starting June 1.

Truckers may cruise Interstate 25 without stopping at a scalehouse now that the highway has become the first major trucking corridor in the nation to be completely wired for electronic weigh station bypass, according to state authorities.

American Freightways Corp. announced plans May 22 to expand into Arizona, its 10th new state since April 1999.

The national average price of diesel fuel, as reported by the Energy Information Administration on May 22, rose 1.7 cents from the week before to $1.432, marking the second consecutive weekly increase, after two weeks of decline that saw the price drop to $1.402 on May 8.