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The price of diesel fuel at the nation’s pumps dropped nine-tenths of a cent last week to stand at $1.159 cents per gallon on Monday, the Department of Energy reported.

Today’s heavy-duty truck is sleeker, runs cleaner, gets better fuel economy, and a computer rather than mechanical linkages control its engine. ow will trucks change during the next several years, and what research is driving those changes?

Wholesale prices, which form the producer price index, fell 0.7% in December, the third straight monthly decline, the Labor Department said Friday..

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Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said Friday that the U.S. economy is making strides toward recovery, but that there are still risks ahead, news services reported.

Two more reports released on Thursday appeared to offer more evidence that the U.S. economy may be turning the corner, as wholesale inventories declined again in November, while initial jobless claims fell by 58,000 last week.

What causes crashes involving trucks? A state-level study released three years ago by the University of Michigan found 70% of 5,500 fatal car-truck accidents examined by the university’s Transportation Research Institute were the fault of the automobile driver, not the truck driver.

Several research programs under way are designed to show the benefits of using technology and behavior modification to prevent accidents caused by drivers falling asleep at the wheel.

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