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News Briefs - April 8

Senate Passes Pension Relief Bill • Great Dane to Increase Production at Arkansas Plant • Schedule for Third Detroit-Windsor Crossing Pushed Back • Weekly Jobless Claims at Lowest Level Since January 2001 • And more...

April 8, 2004

Volvo CEO Favors Incentives to Help ’07 Engine Sales

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Peter Karlsten, chief executive officer of Volvo Trucks North America, said he supported incentives to help spur sales of model-year 2007 heavy-duty engines that will have more stringent emissions controls than current models.

April 8, 2004

Opinion: Wi-Fi -- Too Little, Too Expensive

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor.Much has been written recently about the use of wireless fidelity, or Wi-Fi, at truck stops. Wi-Fi proponents claim that long-haul truck drivers are an obvious market for the wireless standard because it delivers high-speed Internet access and will soon be everywhere.

April 8, 2004

Bush to Nominate Albert Frink as Manufacturing Czar

Commerce Secretary Donald Evans said Thursday that President Bush intends to nominate Albert Frink, the co-founder of California-based carpet maker Fabrica International, as the administration's manufacturing czar.

April 8, 2004

Security Briefs - April 1 - April 7

Parts of U.S.-Canada Border Disappearing • Ohio Law Enforcement Seeks Funds for Sniper Investigation • Transit Systems Increase Security • DOE Studying Trucking Waste to Yucca Mountain • And more...

April 7, 2004

News Briefs - April 7

House Highway Bill Contains Billions in Business Tax Breaks • Import Prices Rise for Sixth Straight Month • DOT Unveils Grants to Boost Safety-Belt Use • Report: Administration Upset With HOS Exemptions • And more...

April 7, 2004

Trucking Suppliers Report Surge in Demand

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — With more than half their 2004 truck production slots already accounted for and more orders piling up, top executives of two major original equipment manufacturers said the industry has entered an era of strong sales that could last for several years.

April 7, 2004

Editorial: Signs Say Trucking Is Back

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor.The sounds of celebration that emanated from the big Mid-America Trucking Show in Louisville, Ky., March 25-27 were bouncing all around the country last week, as the supplier and show industries reveled in the latest evidence that trucking is back.

April 7, 2004

News Briefs - April 6

Price of Oil Rises on Middle East Violence • Planned Jobs Cuts Drop to Nine-Month Low in March • Cummins Says Demand for Engines Increasing • Tennessee Continues Crackdown on Speeding Truckers • And more...

April 6, 2004