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The U.S. Department of Transportation has nullified guidelines on hazardous materials hauling that were adopted in Cleveland, but which were not enforced during negotiations with American Trucking Associations.

House Panel Backs Bush on Mexican Trucks; Truck Driver Arrested in Fiery Atlanta Crash; Greenspan Says Inflation Not Accelerating; Hyundai, Daimler Will Join on Engine Project; and more...

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I couldn’t agree more with some of the issues your reporter presented in the May 28th issue regarding driver shortage (“Cirillo Lays Blame for Driver Shortage at Industry’s Door,” p. 3).

Driver pay, after rising steadily in recent years in response to growing demand for truckload freight hauling and a shrinking pool of qualified applicants, may have reached a plateau and could be trending downward, according to a new national survey.

Is the party over for trucking stocks? After seeing prices appreciate as much as 64% over the past year, trucking equity analyst James J. Valentine of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter downgraded his four truckload stock picks from “outperform” to “neutral” on May 7 and said he doesn’t expect trucking stocks to rebound until mid-2002.

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DaimlerChrysler Considers Freightliner Improvements; Drop in Demand Forces Atlas Air to Cut Jobs; Texas DOT Warns of Delays on I-35; Qualcomm Forms Wireless Consortium; and more...

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What do hours of service, waiting time, driver recruitment and safety have to do with each other? Everything. Trucking is an industry where some of the most important employees are not protected by the Fair Labor Standards Act — and that relates to pay.