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Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said Friday that he would propose a diesel tax increase to repair roads even though that tax is opposed by truckers who support him. The truckers and Huckabee re on the same side when it comes to opposing toll booths on Arkansas interstate routes.

Marshall Siegel, president of the Independent Truckers Owner-Operators Assn., and Marilyn L. Kriensky, an I-TOO office manager, pleaded guilty Nov. 5 to swindling truckers out of more than $200,000.

Clean Diesel Technologies said it raised approximately $1.85 million from European investors to continue funding the development of fuel additives to reduce diesel engine emissions.

Transit Group said it obtained a $50 million commitment from GE Capital to help refinance its current fleet of tractors and trailers and to support future equipment purchases.

There’s a message for trucking in the recent mid-term Congressional elections.

The age of Aquarius is here for shippers and motor carriers. Unless both recognize that an effective less-than-truckload distribution system depends upon a collegial approach to problems in each segment of the distribution system, and unless both engage in a friendly and cooperative approach to developing mutually acceptable solutions, the system will deteriorate and neither side will benefit. “Sides” can no longer define the relationship and discussions carried out between shippers and carriers.

General Electric Co. is the world’s most valuable company. Its chairman, Jack Welch, is hailed as one of the most important and visionary business leaders of his time. Truckers, however, view GE in a somewhat different light — a $90 billion corporation with an attitude.

The Confederation of British Industry has called on the Labour government to cut diesel fuel taxes and increase spending on highways, two of the key demands of Britain’s trucking sector.

The International Energy Agency is forecasting that oil demand this year and next will be “lower than previously anticipated.”