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Sol Berman, who died in February, found a profit margin half a century ago in the then-primitive notion of leasing trucks to operators and developed or refined concepts that are in now general use by full-service vehicle leasing businesses.

In conjunction with DHL Worldwide Express, the U.S. Postal Service is now offering merchandise delivery to 213 nations through its new Global Express Guaranteed Service.

The future of truck driving simulation has arrived, landing at the Carnegie Mellon Driver Training and Safety Institute facility in Lemont Furnace, Pa.

How does a person who has never operated a big rig handle an 18-wheeler?

Shorter hauls and different freight — two of the dynamics that differentiate the medium- from heavy-duty truck operations — are also key reasons the medium-duty vehicles — Classes 5-7 — have not had the severe drop in sales the heavy truck manufacturers have seen this year.

Truckers continued to disrupt traffic with fuel protests in several nations last week, while the European Union and the International Energy Agency continued to search for ways to deal with high fuel costs.

Although the government announcement of its plan to tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve has dropped oil prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange and elsewhere from 10-year highs, concern about distillate supplies in the coming winter persists.

Oil executive David Trice walked into the conference room at the Millennium Hotel off New York’s Times Square earlier this month, looked out at investors waiting to grill him about his company’s prospects, and grinned.

By all accounts, Congress’ decision to prevent the Department of Transportation from issuing a final hours-of-service rule represents a major victory for the American Trucking Associations.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration may consider collapsing the categories of driving operations, but it seems unlikely to abandon a plan to require on-board recorders to track driving hours.