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Technology Briefs - Oct. 15 - Oct. 21
Sirius Converts Debt, Preferred Stock to Common Stock • Oshkosh Unveils New Command System • Heartland Drivers to Use Transflo Express •
October 21, 2002News Briefs - Oct. 21
PMA Still Has Not Produced Proof of Slowdown • Oil Prices Drops as War Talk Cools • Arkansas Best Boosts 3Q Earnings • Navistar to End Contract Extension With UAW • And more...
October 21, 2002September Class 8 Truck Sales Soar
Sales of heavy-duty trucks soared 39.7% in September from a year earlier, as fleets continued to buy trucks with engines made before tougher federal emissions standards took effect Oct. 1.
October 18, 2002NHTSA Wants Comments on Event Data Recorders
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Oct. 11 asked for comments on event-data recorders to help with motor-vehicle crash investigations.
October 18, 2002CPI Rises 0.2%, Trade Gap Widens
The prices U.S. consumers paid for goods rose during September as energy, health car and automobile costs all pushed higher, the government said Friday.
October 18, 2002Navistar to Close Embattled Ontario Plant
Just three months after agreeing to a new two-year contract with its employees at its heavy-duty truck plant in Chatham, Ontario, International Truck and Engine Corp. said it will close the facility sometime in the summer of 2003.
October 18, 2002News Briefs - Oct. 18
NPTC, NCSTS Join ATA in Support of Unified Carrier Registration • USF to Sell Forwarding Companies • Intermodal Recovering After Dock Shutdown • S&P Boosts Outlook for J.B. Hunt • And more...
October 18, 2002Industrial Production Shows 2nd Straight Drop in Sept.
Production at the nation's factories, mines and utilities dropped for two consecutive months for the first time this year, continuing August's 0.3% decline with a 0.1% drop in September, the Federal Reserve reported Thursday.
October 17, 2002Housing Starts Surge to 16-Year High Rate
The number of new homes being built in the United States jumped 13.3% in September to an annual rate of 1.843 million – the highest in 16 years, the Commerce Department said.
October 17, 2002Effects of Ports Shutdown Prove Hard to Predict
As trucking companies joined the transport surge to move stacked-up freight at jammed West Coast ports, industry officials and analysts differed on whether the freight disruption would diminish or enhance the financial performance of carriers and logistics companies that depend on servicing the ports.
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