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• Freightliner to lay off about 940 at N.C. manufacturing plant

  By The Associated Press
  Posted Jan 7th 2016 11:00AM

  CLEVELAND, N.C. — Almost 1,000 workers are being laid off from a North Carolina Freightliner truck manufacturing plant...

• Oil plunges on N. Korean bomb news, fears China economy faltering; oil lowest since Feb. ‘09

  By The Associated Press
  Posted Jan 7th 2016 10:59AM

  Oil prices plunged along with U.S. stocks Wednesday on news that North Korea had supposedly set off a hydrogen bomb and ...

• Spot Freight Rates Up from Last Week, Way Down from Year Ago

  By Evan Lockridge - TruckingInfo.com
  Posted Jan 6th 2016 10:51AM

  Average rates for flatbeds and reefers on the spot freight market ticked slightly higher during the final week of 2015 a...

• Ready for a change: e-logs set to become ELDs

  By Aaron Huff - eTrucker.com
  Posted Jan 6th 2016 10:41AM

  In March, 2014, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration proposed an electronic logging device mandate (ELD) to r...

• Diesel average at new low at $2.211 a gallon

  By The Trucker Staff
  Posted Jan 5th 2016 1:23PM

  Diesel prices are now hovering above the $2-a-gallon mark, ringing up at $2.211 Monday for the on-highway average, accor...