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A bill that would have addressed the problem of overweight coal trucks is dead in the West Virginia legislature for this year

U.S. Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge is in Mexico this week to discuss border security

The West Virginia Senate last week approved a bill that would require drivers of tractor-trailers, buses and other large commercial vehicles to stop before crossing all railroad tracks

Business within the nation’s manufacturing sector has expanded for the first time in 18 months, and there’s better news when it comes to consumer spending, personal income and construction spending

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Arkansas is buying two infrared truck inspection systems, following a successful three-month pilot program last fall

The Missouri state senate this week rejected a proposal that would have raised diesel fuel taxes and trucking fees

Roadway Express, Akron, Ohio, is adding more sleeper-team lanes and significantly increasing sleeper schedules

Cummins has added a new venture within its filtration business unit to create and sell solutions to treat the byproducts from engine combustion

TruckStops Routing and Scheduling Software version 2.7 contains new resource utilization Gantt Charts, the standard format for displaying a schedule graphically

Logistics Management Resources, Louisville, Ky., has acquired Interstate University Inc., a certified driver training school headquartered in Evansville, Ind

Carrier Logistics Inc. has selected the Progress OpenEdge e-business platform to Web-enable the next generation of its FACTS2000 freight management and tracking system

South Carolina is now limiting big trucks to the two right lanes of stretches of interstate with three or more lanes

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The U.S. economy did better in the fourth quarter than first thought. The Commerce Department released figures this morning showing the nation’s Gross Domestic Product grew at a 1.4% rate in the final quarter of last yea

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Penske Logistics, through its parent Penske Truck Leasing, has signed a software license agreement with XATA Corp. for its new XataNet software

Wireless Matrix Corp. has made available Dynamic Mobile Data's MobileDispatch suite of products and services with its Mobile Base Station

The Washington State Legislature is once again looking for ways to fund highway improvements in the state, with possible solutions including a fuel tax hike and a surcharge on gross-weight fees for trucks

It may still be cold in the Windy City, but the Illinois Department of Transportation is ready to begin another busy road construction season throughout the six-county Chicago region

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@Road, Fremont, Calif., a provider of location-enhanced wireless Internet solutions for mobile resource management, announced that it hasjoined the Freight Transportation Security Consortium

Taylor Dynamometer has acquired the diesel products of SuperFlow Corp

Updated 12:15 p.m. EST. Orders and shipments for durable goods and shipments posted a healthy increase in January, indicating the struggling manufacturing sector may soon be headed for a recovery

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Central Transport, Warren, Mich., is significantly expanding its less-than-truckload business westward with the acquisition of most of the assets of California's DiSalvo Trucking Company

NSI Global's Vistar Datacom subsidiary will integerate its GlobalWave satellite communications system with Maddocks Systems' fleet management software