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LAS VEGAS — The Truckload Carriers Association took a step toward rapprochement with American Trucking Associations Sunday afternoon when the group’s board of directors voted unanimously to create a joint task force to draft an affiliation agreement.

The Technology and Maintenance Council has begun to broaden its standards setting and training to take into account the increasingly complex role of maintenance managers in the trucking industry, according to the council’s next chairman, Duke Drinkard.

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The price of diesel fuel jumped 1.9 cents per gallon last week to $1.173, its second consecutive increase following two weeks of modest declines, the Department of Energy reported Monday.

In one of the strongest signs yet that the recession is ending, the Institute for Supply Management said Friday that its manufacturing index reflected expansion in February, for the first time in 19 months.

In life we have goals and missions because there is never enough time to accomplish everything that we would like to. Some might think that a goal and a mission are very much the same thing, but I would argue differently.

While signs of economic recovery have been emerging like crocuses in this unusually early spring, helping to raise spirits about business conditions, truckers need to keep a healthy sense of caution about how much risk remains.

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WASHINGTON — Petroleum refiners suing to stop a rule requiring a sharply reduced level of sulfur in diesel fuel warned the U.S. Court of Appeals here Feb. 26 that fuel shortages would result if the Environmental Protection Agency goes ahead with its plan.

WASHINGTON — Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administrator Joseph M. Clapp announced during remarks to transportation journalists and lobbyists the names of five people who lost their lives in truck-related crashes.