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NewsSeptember 30, 2010

EIA Analyst Forecasts Diesel Price Increase of 10 to 15 Cents Next Year

Diesel prices are likely to go up 10 to 15 cents a gallon next year over this year, said Tancred Lidderdale of the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Lidderdale heads the EIA's analytical team that produces the monthly fuel price forecast that is a key data point for trucking industry planners. He discussed diesel supply and demand at an Oil Price Information Service conference in Atlanta earlier this week

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NewsSeptember 30, 2010

Food Safety Expert to Address Trucking Group

Government regulation of food transportation practices will be discussed at the meeting of the Agricultural and Food Transporters Conference in Phoenix on Oct. 18

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NewsSeptember 30, 2010

C.R. England Introduces Double-Stack Refrigerated Container-on-Flatcar Service

C.R. England has introduced TempStack, 53-foot temperature-controlled, container-on-flatcar technology to its service offerings. The first shipment scheduled on October 15 from Chicago to Los Angeles

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NewsSeptember 29, 2010

ATA Truck Tonnage Index up From Last Year, Down Month-to-Month

The American Trucking Associations' advance seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index fell 2.7 percent in August, which was the largest month-to-month decrease since March 2009. The index is up 2.9 percent compared to the same month a year ago

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NewsSeptember 29, 2010

LTL Rates on the Way Up at Many Carriers

A number of less-than-truckload carriers announced they are raising rates

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NewsSeptember 28, 2010

Port of LA Revises Schedule for Clean Truck Program Concessions

The Los Angeles Harbor Commission Monday agreed on a new implementation schedule for the provisions of its Clean Truck Program Concession Agreement that had been enjoined by the federal court

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NewsSeptember 28, 2010

ATA Economist Predicts Supply Crunch Like Industry's Never Seen

Even though he doesn't expect the economy to grow very quickly, the American Trucking Associations' chief economist says we're heading into "a supply side story the likes of which we have probably never seen in our industry." The result will be higher rates, and the best drivers in demand like they've never been before

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NewsSeptember 27, 2010

Diesel Prices Down, Oil Futures Flat

The average price of diesel fuel fell for the first time in three weeks, according to weekly figures from the U.S. Department of Energy

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NewsSeptember 26, 2010

New York Closing Rest Areas

Six rest areas on interstate highways in New York State will be closed this fall due to budget cuts. The closures affect several NYSDOT rest stops on Interstates 81, 87, 88 and 90, and do not impact any travel plazas located on the New York State Thruway

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NewsSeptember 24, 2010

Jeffrey Schlecht, Omaha Truck Center, Wins TMC's SuperTech Competition

Jeffrey Schlecht, a technician at Omaha Truck Center's shop in Norfolk, Neb., won the SuperTech competition at the Technology & Maintenance Council's Fall Meeting in Raleigh, N.C., this week. Schlecht outscored 40 other competitors in a series of written and hands-on tests set up by industry volunteers at the Raleigh Convention Center

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