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News•September 19, 2000

Ohio Turnpike Finds Fast Food Popular

Drivers on the Ohio Turnpike aren't slowing down much to stop at the sit-down restaurants in the new travel plazas along the toll road. In fact, most of them are just looking for a quick bite to eat

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News•September 19, 2000

Iowa 80 Catalog Becomes a Dot-Com

Since it started in 1997, the Iowa 80 Catalog has been known as Iowa 80 Catalog. Now the company has renamed itself Iowa80.com

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News•September 19, 2000

Drivers Are New Faces of E-Commerce

For-hire carrier drivers who deliver evenings, carry packages upstairs, hook up ovens and install new computers? That’s what some big Internet retailers are looking for and, to an extent at least, beginning to find. The possible new face of parcel and LTL transportation emerged during an e-commerce session at the fall meeting of NASSTRAC (National Small Shipment Traffic Conference) in Baltimore this week

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News•September 18, 2000

Dueling Dragsters, Beauty Trucks Wow Crowd of 20,000 in NJ

Not from the East Coast? Then you may not know about the U.S. Diesel Truckin' Nationals and Motorsports Spectacular, reputed to be the biggest one-day trucking event in the country

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News•September 18, 2000

Firestone Truck Tires Unaffected by SUV Tire Recall

A month after all the national publicity began about Firestone's voluntary recall of its P235/75R15 Radial ATX, Radial ATX II and Wilderness AT tires, an executive at Bridgestone/Firestone told Truckinginfo.com there was nothing in common between the SUV tires and Firestone's commercial truck tire line

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News•September 18, 2000

Goodyear Joins Forces With Treadco

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, announced a joint venture agreement with Treadco Inc. to combine their commercial tire service centers to form a new company, Wingfoot Commercial Tire Systems

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News•September 18, 2000

Houston Targets Smog Reduction

A series of public hearings began this week on a plan to help reduce the smog on the Houston area, and a provision to require trucks to limit idling time to five minutes will be included in the talks

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News•September 18, 2000

Navistar Could Move Headquarters

Chicago-based Navistar International may be moving its headquarters to a nearby suburb in an effort to cut costs

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News•September 18, 2000

Southern California Air Agency Approves Low-Sulfur Diesel Plan

Regional air quality officials approved a measure requiring use of low-polluting diesel fuel in much of Southern California, but set a later date for implementation after strong opposition from the trucking industry and state officials

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News•September 18, 2000

Teamsters File National Charge Against Overnite

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters has filed a national charge against Overnite Transportation on behalf of Teamster locals. The union claims Overnite has engaged in a corporate-wide campaign to interfere with employees' federally protected labor rights by paying for false testimony and by paying individuals to damage company and union property and equipment

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