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Teamsters Ratify YRC Wage Cut

The Teamsters union said employees at YRC Worldwide Inc. have approved a landmark 10% wage cut to help reduce costs as the largest less-than-truckload carrier struggles with falling tonnage in a weak economy.

January 12, 2009

NAFTA Surface Trade Falls 2.1% in October

Surface trade among the United States, Canada and Mexico fell 2.1% in October from a year earlier, the Department of Transportation said Thursday.

January 8, 2009

Flooded Stretch of I-5 in Washington State to Reopen Friday

The Washington state Department of Transportation plans to reopen a 20-mile stretch of Interstate 5 Friday afternoon near Chehalis, Wash., that was closed for two days due to heavy flooding, the Associated Press reported.

January 9, 2009

Winter Weather Prompts Some States to Lower Speed Limits

Inclement weather in the form of snow, ice, rain and wind prompted several states Wednesday to temporarily lower speed limits, news reports said.

January 7, 2009

Daimler Forms Truck Venture with Chinese Firm

Daimler AG and China’s Beiqi Foton Motor Co. have agreed to form a venture in Beijing to make trucks and engines, Bloomberg reported Wednesday.

January 7, 2009

States’ Stimulus Plans Differ From Obama’s

Plans by some states for spending on new highways may undermine the planned economic stimulus, which would focus on existing roads and new transit systems, Bloomberg reported.

January 7, 2009

ISM Services Index Improves but Shows Contraction

The U.S. economy’s service sector improved, but showed contraction for a third straight month in December, the Institute for Supply Management said Tuesday.

January 6, 2009

November Factory Orders Fall 4.6%

U.S. factory orders fell 4.6% in November, the Commerce Department said Thursday.

January 6, 2009

Maryland Proposes Raising Truck Tolls

Maryland is proposing raising toll rates on trucks and other multi-axle vehicles in the face of a struggling economy, the Maryland Transportation Authority said.

January 6, 2009

State Cancels Trans Texas Corridor

The Trans Texas Corridor, a plan to build hundreds of miles of highways, rail lines and utilities along the interstate 35 and 69 corridors in Texas, has been canceled, The Dallas Morning News reported.

January 6, 2009