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The price of diesel fuel at the nation’s pumps dropped nine-tenths of a cent last week to stand at $1.159 cents per gallon on Monday, the Department of Energy reported.

In a move expected to trigger controversy, President Bush circumvented the Democratic-controlled Senate and appointed Washington labor lawyer Eugene Scalia to the post of Labor Department solicitor, news services reported.

Trucking companies paid an average of 32% more for insurance in 2001 than the year before and are likely to pay even higher premiums in the future, according to an American Trucking Associations survey of 1,000 carriers.

Several stories in this week’s Transport Topics point to a growing crisis trucking companies are facing in trying to find affordable insurance coverage.

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Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said Friday that the U.S. economy is making strides toward recovery, but that there are still risks ahead, news services reported.

Today’s heavy-duty truck is sleeker, runs cleaner, gets better fuel economy, and a computer rather than mechanical linkages control its engine. ow will trucks change during the next several years, and what research is driving those changes?

Wholesale prices, which form the producer price index, fell 0.7% in December, the third straight monthly decline, the Labor Department said Friday..

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After more than four years, the federal government has agreed to end its financial review over the Teamsters, the Associated Press reported Thursday.