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DaimlerChrysler, which said Monday its U.S. truck making subsidiary Freightliner has dragged its profits down, is looking to Asia for a truck-manufacturing partner.

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The average price of diesel fuel across the United States fell 2.8 cents per gallon last week, almost double the decline from the previous week, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported on Monday.

American Trucking Associations was a much different place when Walter B. McCormick Jr. arrived in October of 1997. The membership was clamoring for substantive change, charging that dues were too high and unfairly assessed, and insisting that the fiscal operations had to be tightened up.

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American Trucking Associations is challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s authority under the Clean Air Act of 1970, filing comments along with 25 other trade associations opposing a petition from environmental groups asking the agency to issue regulations controlling greenhouse gas emissions from mobile sources such as trucks.

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Trucking companies that go through mergers or acquisitions after June 30 may not account for their expansion as a pooling of interests. Instead, financial personnel must configure their records according to purchase rules.

For many professional drivers, the modern tractor-trailer is a home away from home. The sleeper cab may feature all the creature comforts of a small house, including a TV and maybe even a shower.

With trailer sales falling off as much as 36% this year, one would expect trailer manufacturers to be suffering. So far, though, the casualties appear to have been relatively light.