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Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. espite the fact that average retail diesel prices recently rose above $2 a gallon, trucking fleets have so far expressed little new concern about fuel costs, amid muted reaction from their freight shippers..

The average national retail price of gasoline rose 8 cents per gallon over the past two weeks, fueled by the record price of crude oil, according to the Lundberg survey of stations nationwide.

LAS VEGAS — Information — gathering, disseminating, analyzing and applying it — is the next driving wheel of truck making, leading truck manufacturers said Oct. 6 in their panel discussion during American Truck Associations’ Management Conference & Exhibition here.

EPA Awards Grant to Iowa School District • Terion Unveils FleetView for Refrigerated Trailers • Report: Toll Collect Pays $150 Million for Delay.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Surveying an assembly of 350 customers or business partners, the founder of McLeod Software Inc. said the turnout at his company’s annual Users’ Conference would have been even greater if truckers weren’t so busy.

UAW Approves Three-Year Contract With Mack • Highway Bill Remains Stalled in Congress • Universal Express Purchases Majority Stake in Alpine Air • Delays Hampering Canadian Ports, CP Reports

Crude oil in New York closed at its fourth record high this week, closing at $53.31 on the New York Mercantile Exchange, Bloomberg News reported.

Employers added 96,000 workers to payrolls in August, but the manufacturing sector reduced payrolls by 18,000 jobs after increasing over the previous two months, the Labor Department said Friday.

LAS VEGAS — Trucking company executives gathered here at the Management Conference & Exhibition of American Trucking Associations in a time of plenty to wrestle with issues that could threaten that prosperity.

LAS VEGAS — North America's largest truck makers told fleet owners that introduction of the next generation of cleaner-burning diesel engines may not disrupt the market as much as had been feared.