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As California gas prices reached record levels, the county Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to ask the City Council to revive a 2-year-old ordinance to lower gas prices.

Shareholders of Kroger Co. and Fred Meyer Inc. approved a merger that would create a grocery company with supermarkets from Virginia to Alaska.

TT File PhotoVolvo is extending service to drivers on the road by purchasing a stake in a major owner of truck stops — much as one of its biggest competitors, Freightliner Corp., is doing.

His success and his loyalty — both to the industry and the community — earned George F. Grask the ATD Truck Dealer of the Year award for 1999.

Thirteen people are helping former U.S. Rep. Norm Mineta develop a plan to improve truck safety.

Truck sales are booming and backlogs are rising. But, according to a survey of truck manufacturers and dealers by Schroder & Co., there is little cause for worry about a severe downturn.

Vermont legislators, attempting to open more of the state’s roads to longer trucks, are stirring up debate over the issue but not making headway.

State officials are contemplating raising tolls on the New Jersey Turnpike by 17 to 20% in the next three years to pay for road improvements.

Freightliner purchased Freightliner Mid-Ontario, the largest Freightliner dealer in Canada, with three locations in the Toronto metropolitan area.

Buying a tractor-trailer in Mississippi this summer will be bit less expensive thanks to a new law that reduces the tax on trucks bought for cross-country travel.