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Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. oliday sales at U.S. retailers may rise 6% over last year, up from an earlier 5% forecast, according to the National Retail Federation, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. ransportation stocks, including trucking, airline and railroad companies, have lately been some of the best performing on Wall Street, USA Today reported Tuesday.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. bout 13,000 trucks cross the 76-year-old Ambassador Bridge on a typical weekday, many of them carrying auto parts for just-in-time delivery or even finished vehicles.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. img src="http://www.ttnews.com/images/printeditiontag_new.gif" width=120 align=right>U.S. retail sales of heavy-duty trucks had their smallest monthly gain of 2005 in October — 14.4% higher than a year earlier — but still the second-best October in history.

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Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. he Federal Reserve may be close to ending an 18-month series of interest rate increases, according to the minutes of the Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee Nov. 1 meeting, which were released Tuesday.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. he shippers’ group Nasstrac, also known as the National Small Shipments Traffic Conference, said it has broadened its coverage to cover all modes and market segments of transportation.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. eneral Motors Corp. plans to close nine North American plants and cut 30,000 jobs in an effort to trim costs, news services reported Monday.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. img src="http://www.ttnews.com/images/printeditiontag_new.gif" width=120 align=right>PHOENIX — Trucking executives called for greater cooperation among diesel refiners, fuel transporters and retailers, and warned that carriers will have to monitor their fuel sources for quality as the industry makes the transition to ultra-low-sulfur diesel and 2007 model trucks late next year.

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