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Once a year — and it should be far more often — we pause in our busy lives to take notice of and show our appreciation for the everyday heroes who move our freight: the 3.4 million professional truck drivers who deliver the goods.

PeopleNet, in a bid to push further into the trailer-tracking market, is touting integration with Par Logistics Management Systems as the new “core” of the Minnetonka, Minn., company’s trailer-management product.

Please keep step-van drivers in the National Truck Driving Championships. I attended my first truck-driving rodeo two years ago because the step-van category was added, and I had a blast. Now, I’m hooked on NTDC.

RALEIGH, N.C. — Representatives of three major truck and engine makers candidly admitted to fleet maintenance directors meeting here that some performance results of diesel particulate filters have not worked out as well as originally anticipated.

Oregon’s truck weight-mile tax is set to increase Oct. 1 by an average of 24.5%, along with the flat fees some truckers pay.

President Obama has asked that a pilot program allowing trucks up to 100,000 pounds to run on interstate highways in Maine and Vermont become a permanent exemption to the federal 80,000-pound limit.

Port of Los Angeles staff members are recommending that harbor commissioners push back until the end of 2011 the first phase of the port’s clean trucks program requiring that employee-only drivers move drayage trucks.

The U.S. diesel average price rose 1.7 cents to $2.96 a gallon last week, the second straight week it has inched upward, the Department of Energy reported.

Logistics firm US 1 Industries said it has received a proposal from its two top executives to buy all of the shares they don’t already own in a transaction that is worth about $8 million.