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No date has been set for the initial meeting of a House-Senate conference that is to decide whether to stop funding for the proposed hours-of-service rules from the Department of Transportation.

Mexico’s largest trucking association, Canacar, has seized the moment to present its complaints on North American Free Trade Agreement trucking issues to the country’s incoming president, Vicente Fox Quesada.

Trucks can keep cruising the Arizona deserts at the same speed as four-wheelers thanks to a state Department of Transportation study.

Although the wave of change for women in the 1970s was slow to hit trucking, one Florida woman rolled in early and is still riding high as director of a driver training program.

In the news this morning: OPEC chief tells member nations to prepare to pump more oil; USFreightways reports second-quarter increase; Air Canada pilots to reveal possible strike plans Monday; and more.

This afternoon's headlines: Appeals court upholds STB's rail-merger moratorium; Air Canada, pilots break off talks; Airborne Express looks to trucking to boost business; and more.

Today's technology headlines: How to answer those "How's My Driving" stickers; Feds look into danger of driving while phoning; EarthLink says it won't install FBI's controversial Internet tapping device; and more.

The Senate voted Friday to eliminate estate and gift taxes over a 10-year period to help preserve family-owned trucking operations, but the bill faces a veto by President Clinton who said it benefits wealthy Americans.

The price of diesel fuel crept downward 0.4 cents a gallon this week amid arguments over inventories, oil production quotas and reserve plans, but analysts aren't holding out much hope for a significant drop in fuel prices anytime soon.

The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission relaxed the rules that determine which hazardous materials may be trucked through the four mountain tunnels on its toll road.