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UAW Approves Three-Year Contract With Mack • Highway Bill Remains Stalled in Congress • Universal Express Purchases Majority Stake in Alpine Air • Delays Hampering Canadian Ports, CP Reports

LAS VEGAS — Information — gathering, disseminating, analyzing and applying it — is the next driving wheel of truck making, leading truck manufacturers said Oct. 6 in their panel discussion during American Truck Associations’ Management Conference & Exhibition here.

EPA Awards Grant to Iowa School District • Terion Unveils FleetView for Refrigerated Trailers • Report: Toll Collect Pays $150 Million for Delay.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Surveying an assembly of 350 customers or business partners, the founder of McLeod Software Inc. said the turnout at his company’s annual Users’ Conference would have been even greater if truckers weren’t so busy.

Daimler Says Commercial Vehicles Earnings To Rise Despite Mitsubishi Costs • Rail Carloadings, Intermodal Shipments Rise in September • Crude Oil Rises, Heating Oil Hits Intraday Record

Employers added 96,000 workers to payrolls in August, but the manufacturing sector reduced payrolls by 18,000 jobs after increasing over the previous two months, the Labor Department said Friday.

LAS VEGAS — Trucking company executives gathered here at the Management Conference & Exhibition of American Trucking Associations in a time of plenty to wrestle with issues that could threaten that prosperity.

LAS VEGAS — North America's largest truck makers told fleet owners that introduction of the next generation of cleaner-burning diesel engines may not disrupt the market as much as had been feared.

Crude oil in New York closed at its fourth record high this week, closing at $53.31 on the New York Mercantile Exchange, Bloomberg News reported.