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Trucking companies and their drivers complained over this week’s 31-hour ban on large trucks on Connecticut roads, even as Gov. John Rowland continued to defend it, the Hartford Courant reported.

The trucking industry’s trade group, American Trucking Associations, had taken a firm stand along with other business groups to oppose the new workplace safety or ergonomics rules issued in the last days of the Clinton administration.

Most flights out of Newark, LaGuardia and Kennedy Airports were back on schedule following a severe New England winter storm that disrupted travel in the Northeast earlier in the week.

Former Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration head Clyde Hart has taken a job as a lobbyist for the American Bus Association.

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General Mills Saves Millions By Sharing Information; Groups Aim to Refurbish Old Cell Phones; Wireless Middleware to Boom for Next Five Years; AT&T Seeks Split of Verizon; Wireless Entertainment Attracts Investors.

As expected, Connecticut lifted the emergency storm ban against tractor-trailers operating on the state's highways at noon on Tuesday, according to the Conn. Department of Transportation..

A monster snowstorm that had been predicted to sprawl across the U.S. Northeast fell mostly in New England on Tuesday, news services reported.

Canada Eyes Rail Merger Policy; U.S. Factory Orders Drop 3.8%; Rains Close One Calif. Route, Threaten Another; MAN AG Reports Shortened FY Earnings; GM-Trailer Bridge Extend Haulage Deal; and more...

Heavy truck supplier Cummins Inc. says it has successfully demonstrated that its exhaust gas recirculation technology will achieve the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s 2004 standards for oxides of nitrogen, emitted by diesel truck engines.