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Trucking managers will focus on personnel, safety and security issues at the Southern Regional Conference of American Trucking Associations' Safety & Loss Prevention Management Council April 28-29 in Atlanta, sponsors said.

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A report Tuesday by the Institute for Supply Management said that manufacturing activity in the United States suffered a contraction in March, adding to evidence that the economy softened during the month.

USFreightways Corp. said Tuesday that Sam Skinner, the Chicago-based company's chairman and chief executive officer, announced he will retire.

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The national average price of diesel fuel fell another 6 cents a gallon to $1.602, the Department of Energy reported Monday.

The Department of Transportation said it has asked 61 cargo and passenger airlines to refund money the government paid them as compensation for lost revenue after the 9/11 terrorist attacks because those carriers overestimated their losses.

Members of the Teamsters union voted to ratify a new five-year contract with several leading less-than-truckload carriers, the labor groups said late Friday.

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While the almost 11-cent decline in diesel prices over the past two weeks was most welcome to trucking, the situation is nowhere near normal, and the potential damage from sky-high fuel prices is hardly over.