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In the news this morning: OOIDA pushes for mandatory fuel surcharge for owner-operators; Houston truckers to boycott container yards; and SYSCO picks N. Calif. site for distribution center.

Ten-year highs for crude oil propelled diesel fuel prices to the highest on record, surpassing levels established in 1990 during Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait.

Ken Johnson, whose term as chairman of The Maintenance Council ended last week, vowed to “preserve the mission” of TMC in the face of concerns that integration with American Trucking Associations could have a negative effect on the close-knit council.

United Parcel Service, the nation’s largest trucking company and the largest railroad freight customer, urged the Surface Transportation Board to impose a two-year moratorium on further rail mergers.

As the driver pinch gets tighter and tighter, the search for workers to fill the seats of America’s trucks keeps getting wider.

Members of the Truckload Carriers Association will decide the future of their group’s relationship with American Trucking Associations on March 22.

Buoyed by the Defense Department’s success in changing the way it pays its freight bills, the General Services Administration is moving to encourage all federal agencies to adopt electronic payment and other commercial business practices.

Volvo refused to offer further concessions to European Union officials who have indicated they will bar the Swedish truck maker from taking over its rival Scania.

A federal appellate court in Boston reversed an award of $525,000 that NBC television news was ordered to pay a Maine trucking company owner, his wife and one of his drivers.

More than 6,000 comments have been logged by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration as public hearings are set to begin on the agency’s controversial ergonomics proposal.