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New orders for heavy-duty trucks hit a three-year low in October, sending shivers down the vehicle manufacturing industry’s spine and sparking a drop in its stock prices.

Trucking’s legal advocacy group voted to fight back against New Jersey’s truck ban and taxes in New Mexico with legal challenges.

The Senate’s version of legislation to establish a motor carrier safety agency, once thought dead for this congressional session, is showing signs of life.

The Environmental Protection Agency is not giving up on its new, stricter smog and soot standards, despite losing another round in a federal appellate court Oct. 29.

Lee P. Shaffer, the new chairman of American Trucking Associations, wants trucking to support installation of electronic data recorders, or "black boxes," on trucks – under the proper circumstances.

If it’s true that the rich get richer, then Qualcomm must be living proof. The communications service provider is looking to expand its satellite-based businesses as well as ease the move into terrestrial systems for metropolitan commercial vehicles.

Should some trucking companies be exempted from filing financial reports with the federal government? About a dozen carriers are asking the Bureau of Transportation Statistics for permission to keep financial and operating data private.

The president of Add On Systems, Oklahoma City, disputed several assertions made by Innovative Computing Corp. in connection with a court order that reportedly restricted Add On’s access to Innovative’s copyrighted software.

The Teamsters union and Overnite Transportation continued to give widely disparate accounts of the effect the union’s picketing is having on the company’s business, as the strike neared the end of its second week.

High agricultural demand and refinery troubles led to a 4-cents-per-gallon leap in the price of diesel fuel in California, which in turn bumped the national average up 0.3 cent.