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Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. .S. consumer sentiment rose this month, rebounding from a 13-year low level in October, according to the University of Michigan’s monthly consumer sentiment index released Wednesday.

U.S. officials said they disagree with the rationale behind a Nafta panel’s order to drastically cut U.S. duties on imports of Canadian softwood lumber after the Commerce Department said it would comply with the order, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. LEXANDRIA, Va. — American Trucking Associations President Bill Graves, speaking at the National Safety Council’s Truck and Bus Safety and Security Symposium here, called on the government to loosen restrictions on how commercial vehicle enforcement grant money can be spent. He also urged states to implement primary seat-belt laws.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. he number of U.S. workers filing initial unemployment benefits rose by 30,000 to 335,000 last week, the Labor Department said Wednesday.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. LEXANDRIA, Va. — The head of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said that agency planned to focus future regulations on drivers’ health and how drivers become qualified to operate commercial vehicles.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. ETROIT-WINDSOR, Ontario — Radiation used to be a topic for science fiction mutation movies, but since 9/11, searching trucks and other vehicles for radioactive materials has become a well-founded cause of concern among U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers at border crossing points.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. his week’s story about the German national railway agreeing to pay $1.1 billion to buy BAX Global reinforces our story in the Transport Topics Logistics 50 earlier this month headlined, “Mergers Are Creating Global Logistics Superpowers.”

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. D&L, Inc., a package carrier and customized delivery service reported third-quarter earnings Wednesday of $840 thousand or 5 cents a share, compared with $492 thousand or 3 cents a year earlier.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. rucking companies attending last week’s Ontario Trucking Association meeting adopted a policy calling requiring all trucks that operate into, out of or within Ontario to use speed limiters, also known as speed governors, on their trucks.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. he average U.S. retail price of diesel fuel fell for the fourth straight week, declining 8.9 cents to $2.513 a gallon, the Department of Energy reported Monday.