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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration announced Sept. 6 it will give high-tech firms $2.5 million to test technologies aimed at preventing a truck carrying hazardous materials from being used in a terrorist attack.

WASHINGTON — An official of the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey said that even though much of the new attention to port security has focused on containers coming off ships, keeping a close eye on truckers hauling those containers is also important.

U.S. consumer prices, led by rises in the prices for clothing, tobacco and energy, recorded in August the largest gain since April, the Department of Labor said Wednesday.

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Truck shipments jumped 11.9% in the month of July – erasing a revised decline of nearly 9% in June -- the American Trucking Associations said in the September issue of its Monthly Truck Tonnage Report..

Truck operators being hammered by rocketing costs, flat tonnage and highly competitive rates may want to look closely at an unheralded accounting provision in the Bush administration’s economic stimulus package that holds the possibility of quick relief for the bottom line.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor.It’s one thing for the court to deny an extension of the Oct. 1 deadline for producing cleaner diesel engines.

U.S. industrial production dropped for the first time this year in August, the Federal Reserve reported Tuesday.

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The national average price of diesel rose 1.8 cents a gallon last week to $1.414, its highest point in almost a year, the Department of Energy reported Monday.