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WASHINGTON — The General Accounting Office told Congress last week that it could raise truck taxes or authorize more toll roads to help boost transportation infrastructure investment and the Highway Trust Fund.

Preclearance and weigh-in-motion, or WIM, often go hand in hand, but it is not always that way.

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Not Time for Rate Hike, Says Dallas Fed Chief • Morgan Group Profits, Revenues Down in 1Q • Fiori Named to Head Pacer Unit • American LaFrance Headquarters to Move to S.C. • And more...

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor.Following Sept. 11, in many respects we discovered the true strengths of our nation and its people. Among them is the American economy. If we didn’t know that before, we certainly do now. Today, it is still threatened by specter of terrorism. This reality has been most visible in the insurance market.

Spurred by an unexpected rise in sales at general merchandise and department stores, the Commerce Department said Tuesday that U.S. retail sales rose 1.2% in April, to $300.3 billion.

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The average price of diesel fuel made its largest move in three weeks, slipping 0.6 cent per gallon, but continued to hover around the $1.30 mark, a report by the Department of Energy said Monday.

The American Trucking Associations and other North American trucking groups unveiled a plan Monday that mobilizes truck drivers to prevent terrorists from using trucks as weapons.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor.The Mexicans still aren’t coming. In a gesture of neighborly good will, President George W. Bush, not long after taking office, promised his friend and counterpart, Vicente Fox, president of Mexico, to get international trucking between the United States and Mexico going by the first of June, erasing a moratorium against Mexican truckers imposed unilaterally by the Clinton administration nearly seven years ago.