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NewsOctober 20, 2009

NIC Technologies Wins Contract to Build Pre-Screening System

NIC Technologies, which provides official government portals, online services, and secure payment processing solutions, has been tapped by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to create a National Motor Carrier Pre-Employment Screening Syste

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NewsOctober 19, 2009

Diesel Gains a Dime in Second Weekly Rise

Diesel prices continued to rise for the second week in a row, gaining 10.5 cents to land at $2.705 on Monda

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NewsOctober 19, 2009

New DEF Study Shows Promise For Truckstops, Retail Service Stations

Truckstops and retail service stations can expect to get about 80 percent of the vocational market for diesel exhaust fluid when the new EPA 2010 emissions standards goes into effec

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NewsOctober 19, 2009

Chevron Tests Delo 10W-30 Engine Oil

Chevron has found that its Delo 400 LE SAE 10W-30 heavy-duty engine oil can improve fuel economy by 1 percent over 15W-40 oils and by 0.5 percent over 5W-40 grade synthetic lubricants, according to recent laboratory and field testin

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NewsOctober 16, 2009

Oil Continues Upward Trend

Crude oil continued its upward trend Friday, ending the day at $78.53 a barrel and setting another record high for the yea

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NewsOctober 16, 2009

OOIDA Says Bridge Strike Law Unfair

The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association is speaking out against recent legislation proposed by New York Gov. David Paterson, aimed at cracking down on truck drivers who use a certain type of GPS to reduce the number of bridge strike

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NewsOctober 16, 2009

IRS Boosts Per Diem Rate For Drivers

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has raised the per diem rate for drivers, or the amount per day that a truck driver can be reimbursed for meals and incidental expenses when the driver is away from home on trave

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NewsOctober 15, 2009

Oil Breaks $77 in New High for Year

After breaking the $75 a barrel mark Wednesday, crude oil futures settled at $77.58 a barrel Thursday, following a fall in U.S. gasoline stocks and a boost in the equity marke

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NewsOctober 15, 2009

Truck Driver Pre-Screening Program Reality After Seven Years

In August 2002, a group of truck safety professionals went to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration with a suggestion. Safety could be improved, they said, by letting employers check a key federal database for a driver applicant's crash and roadside inspection history. It took seven years of persistent effort, and an Act of Congress, but now the agency is moving ahead with a Driver Pre-Employment Screening Program

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NewsOctober 14, 2009

New York Cracks Down on Bridge Strikes

New York Governor David Paterson has proposed legislation that calls for stricter enforcement of driving laws aimed at reducing the number of bridge strikes in Westchester County and across the state

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