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• Oil goes above $68 a barrel as rally extends into third week

  By Pablo Gorondi - The Associated Press
  Posted Jul 27th 2009 4:03AM

  Oil prices rose above $68 a barrel Monday as a rally fueled by an improving economic and corporate outlook extended i...

• Driver critically injured as tanker, train collide in Mississippi

  By The Associated Press
  Posted Jul 27th 2009 4:02AM

  STAR, Miss. — A tanker truck and a Canadian National Railway locomotive collided Sunday in Rankin County causi...

• Carriers Less Pessimistic About Third Quarter

  By TruckingInfo.com
  Posted Jul 27th 2009 4:00AM

  More trucking companies are not looking back on the first two quarters of this year, as pessimism in the industry sub...

• NHTSA reduces truck stopping distances 30 percent

  By Reed Black, staff writer, Land Line
  Posted Jul 27th 2009 3:57AM

  The government issued a new braking standard for heavy trucks Friday, July 24, which is designed to improve stopping ...

• Data find all cell phone use dangerous

  By Jill Dunn - eTrucker.com
  Posted Jul 27th 2009 3:54AM

  Since 2003, federal officials withheld information that indicated using hands-free cell phones while driving was as d...