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TTPress Unveils Online 'Store' of Web Pages

TTPress, the book and directories division of Transport Topics Publishing Group, has launched its own Web site of dedicated pages to display and sell its products.

August 5, 2002

Satellite Broadcasters Target Mobile Trucking Audience

Radio broadcasts beamed by satellite may significantly change the way over-the-road truckers are informed and entertained.

August 5, 2002

Truck Driver Training Group Develops Online Application

The Commercial Vehicle Training Association has developed an electronic credit and employment application for member driving schools designed to help students line up tuition assistance and placement with motor carriers through an online document.

August 5, 2002

Shippers Holding Tight As Port Talks Pause

Shippers’ groups said their members were not making major shifts in cargo routing, even though longshoremen put on hold their contract talks with West Coast port terminal operators until Aug. 13 and the union gave its negotiators power to seek a strike vote by members.

August 5, 2002

News Briefs - Aug. 5

Mineta Names Capka New Deputy FHWA Administrator • Dealer Sues Mack, Claims Unfair Competition • Economy Growth Slows in July • New Federal Rules Could Cost Cities Money • And more...

August 5, 2002

Technology Briefs - July 30 - Aug. 5

GDT Unveils Its Latest Map Advancements • Voters to Decide Mo. Cell Phone Tax for 911 Service • Miami Garbage Trucks Go High-Tech • Microsoft, AT&T to Offer Data Processing Cell Phones • And more...

August 4, 2002

Lofgren Named President, CEO at Schneider National

Schneider National Inc. Friday named Christopher Lofgren president, chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors.

August 2, 2002

EPA Sets Fines for Diesel-Engine Rule

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. he Environmental Protection Agency will fine engine manufacturers as much as $12,210 for heavy-truck diesel engines that don't meet the Oct. 1 deadline to cut nitrogen-oxide emissions, Bloomberg reported late Thursday.

August 2, 2002

July Unemployment Rate Steady at 5.9%

The U.S. economy added just 6,000 jobs in July and the national unemployment rate held fast at 5.9%, just under the eight-year high of 6% recorded in April, the Labor Department said in a report Friday.

August 2, 2002

News Briefs - Aug. 2

Gasoline Prices Creeping Downward in Southwest • Ariz. Highway May Add Lanes Near Tucson • Personal Spending Rises in June • Crude Oil Price Falls on Iraqi Overture to U.N. • And more...

August 2, 2002

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