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I joined the company where I work about three months ago, and one of my top-priority jobs has been fuel usage. We had to look at our idling time because all our trucks are sleepers and the drivers run in 48 states.

Connecticut’s truck inspections fell 20% to about 18,600 in 2007, compared with a year earlier, the Hartford Courant reported.

The U.S. average diesel price took a break last week from its dizzying climb, dipping 1.6 cents a gallon to $4.707, the Department of Energy reported.

Global Positioning System location-finding and navigation services are generating increasing revenue as the satellite-based technology is embedded in a wider range of mobile devices, according to a report from the European firm ABI Research.

Teamsters union members employed at car hauler Performance Transportation Services went on strike against the company Monday to enforce the union’s bargaining table demands, the union said.

Canadian transportation firm Mullen Group Income Fund said Thursday it would buy the transport unit of Essential Energy Services Trust for C$135 million.

American Trucking Associations said Wednesday that it supports the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission for taking steps toward increasing transparency of the energy futures markets.

An index of the U.S. economy’s service sector slipped in May from a month earlier but continued to show expansion, the Institute for Supply Management said Wednesday.