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EL DORADO – The nation’s 3.5 million truck drivers are “on pace to spend an unprecedented $135 billion on diesel fuel this year,” the American Trucking Association reports – and in South Arkansas, those numbers have become a cause of major concern for logging companies already burdened by a downturn in the housing market, floored stumpage prices and increased maintenance costs.

Forest2Market.com, an online resource of market information for the timber industry, said in its fourth quarter report of 2007 that the timber industry is feeling the strain of the economy as th...