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GLENWOOD SPRINGS A truck driver involved in a crash on Highway 82 that killed two people in January is facing new charges of vehicular homicide.

A recliner found along an Iowa highway by a La Crosse truck driver was more than abandoned debris.

French riot police Monday clashed with dozens of striking farmers at a Mediterranean oil depot, as truckers and taxi cabs staged drive-slows across the country over soaring fuel prices.

Everyone is feeling the pain at the gas pump. But diesel prices are even higher, over $5 per gallon locally.

Prosecutors have filed felony charges against a truck driver who originally faced lesser counts after a fatal crash near El Jebel in January.

Mark Chamness of Littleton now faces charges of vehicular homicide and vehicular assault.

Charges of careless driving causing death and other misdemeanors were dismissed when the felonies were filed last week. Prosecutors have not returned calls seeking comment on their decision.

Chamness' attorney was out of the office and wasn't available for comment.

Many long-haul truckers at the Flying-J-Truck Stop in Ripon said Monday they had no idea about the upcoming Interstate 5 closures.

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It was always a hard life working on trawlers off the coast of Brittany but Marc Grandmougin put up with it for 20 years -- until surging fuel costs cut the French fisherman's income by a third in one year.

Police are searching for a dump-truck driver who they said dropped a load of wet clay, causing a 22-car wreck inside the Harvey Tunnel, and then fled, WDSU-TV reported.

Spanish fishermen protest against rising fuel costs outside the Ministry of Agriculture in Madrid on May 30, 2008.

The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association looks forward to working as a sub-contractor with the HMS Company, which was chosen by the Department of Homeland Security to receive a grant to provide program management, planning and support services for the Trucking Security Program (TSP).

HMS will support the TSP as part of an anti-terrorism and security awareness program for highway professionals. OOIDA will provide training and outreach to its 162,000 member base of small-business truckers and professional truck drivers. Other subcontractors under HMS include the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), Total Security Services International Inc. (TSUS) and Patton Boggs LLP.

The sun was shining outside Sam Adams Elementary School in Cassopolis. But it could not touch the bright and shining smiles of Mrs.

The soaring price of diesel fuel - more than $4.60 a gallon from $2.50 a year ago - has stripped the profit from hauling and raised concerns regarding the trucking industry's future.

As protests against the soaring cost of fuel threatened to widen in Europe, Prime Minister Gordon Brown of Britain warned on Wednesday that the world must confront a global shock caused by skyrocketing oil ...

Around 300 truck drivers honked their horns and parked on a highway on the edge of the city, forcing police to close off a section of road and divert hundreds of motorists during the busy morning rush hour.

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Protests: Trucks gathered in west London Hundreds of British truck drivers have caused road chaos in central London in a protest to demand Government help over rising fuel prices.

A South Carolina truck driver who allegedly fell asleep at the wheel and caused a deadly chain-reaction crash on Interstate 78 last year has been charged with vehicular homicide.

Hundreds of truckers plan to jam part of central London to protest the rising price of fuel.

Lorry drivers are to converge on London in protest at soaring fuel prices as pressure builds on Prime Minister Gordon Brown over plans for a steep hike in road tax Hundreds of hauliers are expected to protest ...