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Some Trucks Allowed Over Hoover Dam but Ban on Big Rigs Stays in Effect

U.S. officials slightly eased recent security restrictions on trucks crossing the Hoover Dam, but the highway over the dam remains off limits to most trucks and all 18-wheelers.

May 9, 2002

When the Price Is Right

MEADOW LANDS, Pa. - Jerry Shannon, owner of a small New Hampshire trucking company, was determined to get one of the first two trucks on the block at the Taylor & Martin auction here April 18.

May 9, 2002

News Briefs - May 9

Highway Crashes Cost U.S. $230.6 Billion, NHTSA Says • Missouri, Kansas Debate Tax Hikes • Trucker Charged After Wild Ride at Border • FTC Looking at Gasoline Prices • And more...

May 9, 2002

Opinion: Filling the Information Gap

Not long ago, I attended a management seminar where we viewed a short video that I believe was highly instructive and immediately applicable to carriers.

May 8, 2002

Rising Prices May Signal End of Used-Trucks Glut

PITTSBURGH - Talk to people who auction trucks for a living and they will tell you the used-truck glut is over and the economy is on the rebound.

May 8, 2002

Editorial: Fuel Prices Continue to Decline

Fuel prices continued to fall last week, albeit slightly, despite analysts’ expectations that events in the Middle East would drive prices upward.

May 8, 2002

Technology Briefs - May 2 - May 8

Discarded Cell Phones Seen Posing Pollution Problem • FCC Seeks to Re-Assign Licenses • TripPak Inks Deal with Independent Truck Stops • Biofuel Alternatives to Petroleum Considered • And more...

May 8, 2002

News Briefs - May 8

Navistar May Close Ontario Plant • Kansas Fuel Tax Bill Advances • Stonepath Acquires United American in $16.1 Million Deal • DOE Oil Stock Numbers Track with API Report • And more...

May 8, 2002

Fed Keeps Interest Rates Unchanged

As widely expected, the Federal Reserve unanimously decided to keep interest rates unchanged on Tuesday.

May 7, 2002

Mailbox Bomb Scare Stretches Into Fifth Day

The FBI issued an alert looking for a 21-year-old man in connection with the planting of 18 pipe bombs from Iowa to Colorado, and most recently in Texas, news services reported.

May 7, 2002

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