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The consumer price index rose 0.2% in September, while the core rate, which excludes food and energy, rose 0.3%, the biggest increase since April, the Labor Department said Tuesday.

ATLANTA — The trucking industry must hire more drivers and pay them more as part of carriers’ efforts to deal with the ongoing capacity crunch, fleet and shipper representatives said here.

Profits Double at U.S. Xpress • Covenant's Net Income Rises 17% in 3Q • Heartland Reports Higher 3Q Profits, Revenues • American Airlines Cargo Raises Fuel Surcharge • And more...

The Missouri Department of Transportation is considered turning Interstate 70 into a toll road, news service reported.

GOTHENBERG, Sweden — Top officials of the world’s largest producer of heavy-duty diesel truck engines said that selective catalytic reduction is the sole technology the industry has found that can meet the tighter emission rules that will go into effect in the United States in 2010.

LAS VEGAS — North America’s leading truck maker, Freightliner LLC, will begin “in the next few weeks” road testing of engines built to meet 2007 federal emissions regulations, Chief Executive Officer Rainer Schmueckle said..

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. ith fuel prices up more than 65% since 1994, insurance and wage rates up, confusing hours-of-service regulation reform and our nation’s ever-increasing security concerns, trucking profit margins are still thin relative to many other industries — and the competition to succeed is fierce.

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LAS VEGAS — Joseph Chapman, operations manger of truckload carrier Triple S Trucking, said a $16,900 investment earlier this year in more fuel-efficient equipment would turn into more than $77,300 in savings by the end of 2005..

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