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U.S. Gasoline Prices Make Highest Jump in 50 Years

U.S. gasoline prices leaped by nearly 13 cents per gallon to $1.67 in the past two weeks, according to the Lundberg Survey of 8,000 gasoline stations, news services reported.

April 23, 2001

Ward Named Dealer of the Year

W.A. 鈥淏ill鈥 Ward, president of Ward International Trucks in Mobile, Ala., was named Dealer of the Year by the American Truck Dealers division of the National Automobile Dealers Association.

April 23, 2001

Executive Briefing -- April 23

Study Finds 80,000 Trucks Crossed Border in 1999; QCL Buys First of Several Ga. Fueling Centers; 3M to Cut 5,000 Jobs; Delta Pilots Reach Agreement With Management; and more...

April 23, 2001

ATD Chairman Pleads With Truck Manufacturers

BALTIMORE -- In his keynote address on Saturday, American Truck Dealers Chairman Stanley DeVore of Casper Truck Center pleaded with truck manufacturers to "stop changing the rules of the game."

April 23, 2001

Truckers Seeing Recovery Signs, Times Says

In positive indication of the economy鈥檚 direction, truck drivers are beginning to see an uptick in their business, the New York Times reported Sunday.

April 22, 2001

Trucking Technology Report - April 20

Lawsuit Claims Cell Phones Health Risks; Shipping Giant Moves Units to Charlotte, N.C.; Rival Wireless Companies May Join Forces; and more...

April 20, 2001

Carrier Execs Use Nasstrac Pulpit to Drum Up New Business

NAPLES, Fla. - Five disciplined, powerful, high-ranking trucking executives were given an assignment and all of them avoided it. There was just too much selling to do.

April 20, 2001

No Excuses: Shippers Demand Removal of Roadblocks

NAPLES, Fla. 鈥 Some of the nation鈥檚 largest shippers stated clearly what they are looking for from their transportation companies: quick access to lots of information about their freight and a commitment to high-quality service that rises above the lackadaisical.

April 20, 2001

Executive Briefing - April 20

Airborne Launches New Ground Service; Yellow Corp. Profit Halved -- 2,900 Jobs Cut; As Earth Day Nears, ATA Says Trucking Industry Pitching In; Visteon Reports Slumped Q1 Earnings; and more...

April 20, 2001

Demand for Trucks Rise as Mississippi River Floods

Flood conditions on the Mississippi River, which have halted shipping on 550 miles of water from Minnesota to Iowa, has also boosted the cost of shipping by truck in the Midwest..

April 20, 2001

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