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Diesel Hits $1.491, Highest Since Feb. 12
The price of diesel fuel gained another 2.1 cents per gallon last week, taking it to $1.491, which is the highest average price seen since Feb. 12, according to a survey conducted by the Energy Information Administration.
May 14, 2001Trucking Technology Report - May 14
Metrocall Cancels Bid for Merger; Report Shows Global Technology Gaps; Trucker McLane Rolls Out Wireless Vehicle System; and more...
May 14, 2001Opinion: Inadequate Monitors for Mexican Operators
I believe that Mr. James R. Giermanski鈥檚 opinion 鈥淭he Mexicans are coming! The Mexicans are coming! . . . Not really!鈥 is na茂ve, so far as California is concerned.
May 14, 2001Editorial: More Help From the Fed
The signs of a faltering national economy are all around us, as more and more companies report plummeting earnings, the jobless rate rises and investment spending falls.
May 14, 2001Reports Find Business Inventories, Industrial Output Fall
Economic indicators were mixed over the past two months, according to government reports, as both inventories and industrial production fell, and demand for goods remained sluggish.
May 14, 2001Bush to Seek Energy Conservation, Mineta Says
President Bush will respond to public concerns by expanding the conservation portion of his energy strategy to be released later this week, Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta said.
May 14, 2001Executive Briefing - May 14
Fed Expected to Cut Interest Rates Tuesday; Cummins, International End Talks; Agere Systems Cutting Jobs; Emons鈥 Net Income Rises 143%; and more...
May 14, 2001LTL Chiefs Plan Fall Rate Increases
NEW YORK 鈥 A group of less-than-truckload executives said today that in spite of the poor economy and the expected resistance of shippers, they expect to ask for and receive freight rate increases in the fall.
May 11, 2001Trucking Technology Report - May 11
DoCoMo Halts Sales of Latest Sony Cell Phone; For Sale: GoCargo.com Assets; JIT Inventory Systems Hold Appeal; and more...
May 11, 2001Trucking Companies Extending Purchasing Cycles
NEW YORK 鈥 Some of the largest names in trucking said this morning they will scrap their systems of purchasing Class 8 tractors in three-year cycles in favor in four- or five-year purchase regimes.
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