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Freightliner LLC said it will temporarily shut down its truck manufacturing plants in Cleveland, N.C. and Mount Holly, N.C., a spokesman said Tuesday.

ORLANDO, Fla. -- The philosophy that helps football teams win championships can also make a business successful, former Washington Redskins head coach Joe Gibbs told trucking leaders Tuesday.

ORLANDO, Fla. - American Trucking Associations presented Michael J. Riley, president of the Motor Transport Association of Connecticut, with its first President's Award for Federation Leadership.

With the Federal Reserve interest rate at its lowest level in 40 years, the betting is rising that the coming months will see still greater cuts, Wall Street Journal said Monday, if something doesn’t happen soon to erase the gloomy and downbeat economic news.

Engine manufacturer Caterpillar Inc. has appealed a federal court's rejection of its request to block enforcement of the government's new diesel emissions requirements.

UAW Ratifies Navistar Pact • Cummins Restates 3Q Earnings • Crude Oil Drops to $25.44 a Barrel, Bloomberg Says • FFEI Reports Improvement •

Wisc. DOT Hesitant to Add Fog Signals • Mitsubishi to Debut New Daimler Engine at Tokyo Show • Ore. DOT Launches Four Traffic Web Cams • Qualcomm Ships 450,000 Mobile Units, Signs Up 36 Fleets •

he national average price of diesel fuel retreated 1.3 cents per gallon to $1.456 Monday after 11 consecutive weeks of increases, the Energy Department reported.

American Trucking Associations' President William J. Canary told attendees at the Management Conference and Exhibition that he has been honored to serve "an industry that I love, an industry I will not apologize for."

Some state officials said the automatic toll payment devices that truckers and car drivers use in the Northeast’s E-ZPass system were faulty and more than 900,000 would be replaced.