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Central Freight Lines said it plans to implement a general rate increase of 5.95% on both its less-than-truckload and truckload service beginning on Aug. 6, 2001.

Trucking company failures continued at a rapid pace during the first quarter of the year, with 1,155 motor carriers going out of business, according to an updated study from investment broker A.G. Edwards & Sons.

A federal regulation requiring an estimated 800,000 older heavy-duty trailers and semi-trailers to be equipped with reflective tape or markers went into effect June 1.

AAA Finds Gasoline Prices Decrease; Transportation.com, FBC Announce Alliance; Dell, Nokia Pessimistic on Economy; Repair Work Causes More Delays Around Atlanta; and more...

The average price of diesel fuel across the United States fell 2.8 cents per gallon last week, almost double the decline from the previous week, the U.S. Energy Information Administration reported on Monday.

American Trucking Associations was a much different place when Walter B. McCormick Jr. arrived in October of 1997. The membership was clamoring for substantive change, charging that dues were too high and unfairly assessed, and insisting that the fiscal operations had to be tightened up.

Virgin Mobile Is Said to Agree to Sprint Deal; Con-Way Adds XML Bill of Lading Feature; AT&T Says Wireless Business Will Be Separated on July 9; and more...

Severe flooding caused by the remnants of Tropical Storm Allison has killed at least 18 in Texas and Louisiana, caused more than $1 billion in damage and left thousands of homes and businesses without power, news services reported.

DaimlerChrysler, which said Monday its U.S. truck making subsidiary Freightliner has dragged its profits down, is looking to Asia for a truck-manufacturing partner.

Yellow Expands Service, Cuts Time; Freightliner to Close Plant Briefly; New Rules on Railroad Mergers Announced; Runge Tapped for NHTSA, Post Says; and more...