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Overall economic activity in the United States expanded at a moderate but uneven pace throughout the United States since late April, the Federal Reserve said in a periodical report released Wednesday.

The amount of freight shipped by trucks rose in April, signalling an improvement in the outlook for the trucking sector, a report by the American Trucking Associations said Tuesday.

The House passed port security legislation June 4 that would require the government to develop an identification and screening system for containerized cargo and require truckers operating in secure port areas to undergo background checks and carry identification cards.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor.Shortly after Sept. 11, when I last had the privilege of communicating with you in this column, I stressed the need for the roadside safety officer to meet new challenges in addition to making sure we have safe trucks and buses through our roadside inspection program.

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Click here to write a Letter to the Editor.Speed kills. While that’s not exactly a news flash, it does seem that most of us try to forget that simple truism in the hurly-burly rush of our daily lives. And that includes truck drivers.

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SAN ANTONIO — A Mexican trucking industry official complained here that U.S. rules for Mexican carriers delivering in the United States are discriminatory, and transportation barriers between the two countries will remain unless the U.S. provisions are implemented in a more equitable way.

The price of diesel fuel fell by 1.4 cents per gallon to a national average of $1.286 last week, the U.S. Department of Energy reported Monday.