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I couldn’t agree more with some of the issues your reporter presented in the May 28th issue regarding driver shortage (“Cirillo Lays Blame for Driver Shortage at Industry’s Door,” p. 3).

Driver pay, after rising steadily in recent years in response to growing demand for truckload freight hauling and a shrinking pool of qualified applicants, may have reached a plateau and could be trending downward, according to a new national survey.

Is the party over for trucking stocks? After seeing prices appreciate as much as 64% over the past year, trucking equity analyst James J. Valentine of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter downgraded his four truckload stock picks from “outperform” to “neutral” on May 7 and said he doesn’t expect trucking stocks to rebound until mid-2002.

91��Ƶ construction in the United States edged down in May, but still remained at healthy levels, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday.

DaimlerChrysler Considers Freightliner Improvements; Drop in Demand Forces Atlas Air to Cut Jobs; Texas DOT Warns of Delays on I-35; Qualcomm Forms Wireless Consortium; and more...

The national average price per gallon of diesel fuel dropped to $1.48 per gallon on Monday, which was 0.6 cent below the previous week, according to the Department of Energy.

Handhelds: Users Waiting for Next Big Thing; Bell, AT&T Ads Face-Off Over Long-Distance Bill; IBM to Offer Wireless Instant Messaging; and more...

What do hours of service, waiting time, driver recruitment and safety have to do with each other? Everything. Trucking is an industry where some of the most important employees are not protected by the Fair Labor Standards Act — and that relates to pay.

Despite a few forecasts for better economic times in the months ahead, the harsh reality of today’s news shows that the Federal Reserve needs to continue lowering interest rates to ensure better days.