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The North American Free Trade Agreement arbitration panel has issued its final decision, clearing the way for Mexican trucks to obtain operating authority to run in the United States.

In a lengthy statement, the head of the major U.S. trucking lobby explains why the American Trucking Associations embraced Tuesday's Nafta panel ruling, which came down against a blanket U.S. policy of prohibiting Mexican trucks from operating in the United States.

UPS has joined a broad coalition of businesses and industry trade groups that are suing the federal government to block enforcement of new ergonomics rules.

Truckers disagree with OSHA about the cost of that so-called ounce of prevention and they say that the number of people needing that pound of cure is getting smaller.

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Navistar's International Truck and Engine Corp. plant in Melrose Park, Ill., scene of a workplace shooting Monday that left five dead, was closed after those shootings but reopened Tuesday morning, the Associated Press reported.

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