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Once again, all of trucking is feeling the pain of a fuel price crisis, reminiscent of similar cost runups in the late 1970s and 80s.

Once again, all of trucking is feeling the pain of a fuel price crisis, reminiscent of similar cost runups in the late 1970s and 80s. And the independent truckers are getting squeezed, though its hard to say exactly how bad it is for them.

Truckers fighting to abolish Oregon’s weight-distance tax have been forced to concede defeat because of sky-high gasoline prices and fierce opposition from the American Automobile Association.

A decision by the Federal trade Commission to drop an investigation takes several port truckers out of immediate legal danger, but leaves their long-term efforts to organize bound in bureaucratic muck.

Maryland put the final touches on its 2000 legislative session last week and six bills pertaining to trucking were passed in the final flurry of action.

Fuel prices continued to descend from the Mount Everest-like summits seen in March and analysts predicted the trend would continue.

At the request of American Trucking Associations, the federal government is weighing whether New Mexico’s rules and fees for haulers of liquefied petroleum gas and compressed natural gas are legal.

The British government is clamping down on the rising number of immigrants seeking asylum in the United Kingdom, and English truckers feel like they have gotten caught in the squeeze.

The governor’s signature and a state judge’s nod are all that are needed to complete the repeal of Idaho’s weight-distance tax, now that the state Legislature has passed the measure.

The British government is clamping down on the rising number of immigrants seeking asylum in the United Kingdom, and English truckers feel like they have gotten caught in the squeeze.