Revisions by the Bureau of the Census have wiped out an apparent record set for trailer shipments in 1998, while new reports showed January 2000 shipments trailing those in the same month a year earlier.

Expectations – and rumors – of an increase in the fuel supply helped push the national average price of diesel fuel down for the third straight week and forced the price of crude oil below $26 per barrel.

The national diesel price average recorded its biggest drop of the year last week, after the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries agreed to boost oil production by some 1.7 million barrels a day.

As major truck manufacturers hawked their newest offerings at the Mid-America Trucking Show, they were haunted by the ironic specter of their own success.

Freightliner trucks built after November can be powered by an engine made by Germany’s Mercedes-Benz, another subsidiary of Freightliner’s parent company, DaimlerChrysler.

Nostalgia competed with modern ergonomics at the Mack Trucks exhibit at the Mid-America Trucking Show.

There are those who would say that becoming the first new entrant in a market that has been either stable or shrinking for the past 70 years seems foolish.

Volvo Trucks North America is trying a new marketing strategy for selling its vehicles by “Cost Per Mile.”

Volvo Trucks North America is trying a new marketing strategy for selling its vehicles by “Cost Per Mile,” a cross between a lease and a warranty program.

Freightliner trucks built after November can be powered by an engine made by Germany’s Mercedes-Benz, another subsidiary of Freightliner’s parent company, DaimlerChrysler.