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Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, truckers who regularly drive the two highways that parallel the 800-mile trans-Alaska oil pipeline from Prudhoe Bay on the Arctic Ocean through Valdez on the Gulf of Alaska have been essential in protecting the infrastructure that provides about 20% of the nation’s oil, according to state trucking officials.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The 94-year-old National Industrial Transportation League has advanced a plan to expand its membership to motor carriers and freight brokers as early as next year.

Switzerland’s environmentally inspired road tax, which went into effect Jan. 1, is not doing what it was intended to do — take trucks off the road. It is, however, contributing to an upgrading of the country’s truck fleet.

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Lack of cooperation from non-cartel oil producers has forced the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries to defer action on a planned 1.5 million barrel-a-day cut in production, news services said.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Trucking companies that wish to continue hauling freight to airports may have to register as freight forwarders, according to a security official with the Federal Aviation Administration.

Supplies of road de-icing salt have been hard to come by for many smaller road agencies in the Midwest, leaving officials scrambling to replenish their stores amid a regional shortage due to heavy use last year.

As U.S. consumers took advantage of interest-free financing on vehicles and began returning to department stores for holiday gift shopping, retail sales rose 7.1% during October, the biggest increase in almost 10 years of record keeping by the Commerce Department.

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