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Coming off a record sales year, truck dealers head to this year's American Truck Dealers annual convention in search of a solution to a market flooded with late-model used trucks.

Diesel engine lubrication oil was once a sticky issue with the Environmental Protection Agency, but now it has determined that the oil doesn't contribute significantly to air pollution.

There are no quick fixes to stem the $10 billion in goods stolen annually from U.S. port terminals, because the criminals who commit the thefts are highly organized and sophisticated, a federal port official says.

A bill that would allow more cargo in semitrailers languishes in Congress as supporters marshal forces to work for its passage.

In the news this morning: Emery Worldwide sues US Postal Service over mail processing centers; Volkswagen chiefs set to take places on Scania board; and Maine lawmakers vote to rebate state fuel tax to truckers.

The national diesel price average recorded its biggest drop of the year last week, after the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries agreed to boost oil production by some 1.7 million barrels a day.

The Idaho Senate addressed the state’s weight-distance tax problems by unanimously voting to scrap the beleaguered system and replace it with higher truck registration fees, much as other former ton-mile tax states have done.

Canadian truckers, like their U.S. counterparts, are continuing to feel the squeeze of higher fuel prices.

Vendors are flooding the market with Internet-based exchanges for managing and moving freight. As the exchanges proliferate, the vendors jockey for position in hopes of attracting enough business to keep carriers’ trailers full while cutting costs for shippers.

State and federal inspectors have started cracking down on Mexican truckers operating under illegal leasing agreements with U.S. carriers to go beyond the 28 commercial zones along the U.S-Mexico border.