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Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. onsumer spending during the recent holiday season rose 8.7% over last year, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.

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Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. PS Inc. said Saturday that federal mediators recessed contract talks with its pilots union indefinitely, one day after the union sought a release from the three-year-old negotiations.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. ross-border trade between the United States, Canada and Mexico saw an in-creased reliance on technology in 2005 to facilitate the accounting and paperwork needed to expedite freight moving between the three countries, as well as to monitor trucks and their goods for security purposes.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. img src="http://www.ttnews.com/images/printeditiontag_new.gif" width=120 align=right>With new emission standards for trucks to take effect just over a year from now, trucking companies remained skeptical that the introduction of 2007-model engines would be the smooth-sailing event that engine manufacturers had promised.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. verall for-hire trucking freight volumes surged 1.9% in November from a month earlier, American Trucking Associations said Tuesday.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. irginia and North Carolina officials are considering a plan to put tolls on Interstates 95 and 85 near the states' border, the Associated Press reported Sunday.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. reightliner LLC said it plans to lay off 130 workers in Portland, Ore., citing the need to juggle the mix of trucks produced at its Swan Island plant there, the Oregonian newspaper reported.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. he index of U.S. leading economic indicators rose for a second straight month in November, the New York-based Conference Board reported Thursday.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. he Senate late Wednesday approved a six-month extension of the USA Patriot Act to keep the anti-terrorism law from expiring on Dec. 31, the Associated Press reported.