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Click here to write your own Letter to the Editor.I agree with Robert S. Abbott’s perspective on the Department of Transportation’s safety compliance review process (Opinion: “The Problem With Safety Ratings,” 7-30, p. 9).

The used truck market, especially for trucks with sleeper cabs, has become a buyers’ market. Most major carriers turn in their sleeper trucks every three to five years, so the sheer amount of sleepers on the market vastly outnumbers the individuals looking for a quality used sleeper truck.

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The National Transportation Safety Board is recommending that commercial drivers pass more rigorous medical exams to get behind the wheel, news services reported.

The Commerce Department delivered another round of bad news in a report released Wednesday as it revised its gross domestic product figures for the second quarter down by a half-percent.

More than 5,700 trucking companies have gone bankrupt in the past 18 months, victims of the economic slowdown, falling freight volumes and rising costs, the chairman of American Trucking Associations told President Bush’s top economic advisers last week.

No new hours-of-service proposals will be issued for at least a year while the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration awaits the results of an independent cost-benefit analysis, according to an FMCSA spokesman.

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As the Labor Day holiday approaches, U.S. motorists are ending their summer in much the same way they began it – watching the price of gasoline rise.