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Trucking industry officials had divided opinions last week over the Transportation Security Administration’s recently announced intention to require locks on all trailers, with some warning it could hurt business and others saying they it would increase security at little or no extra cost.

Every spring, Doug Lumry begins a search for trucks to haul railroad ties from one of six Kerr-McGee Chemical plants to job sites across the country.

President Bush's nomination of John W. Snow to be the next Treasury secretary should be good for trucking, because it places another executive close to the Oval Office who understands the crucial role freight transportation plays in the nation's economy.

Trial lawyers in America have fought to have an upper hand on the business community for years, but that ended on Nov. 26, when it was my great honor to witness the signing of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act by President Bush at a White House ceremony.

The prices U.S. consumers paid for goods rose slightly in November, a government report said Tuesday.

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President Bush's selection of railroad executive John W. Snow to be Treasury Secretary will help give transportation issues high-level visibility in the administration's economic policy, trucking and transportation observers said last week.

Freight shippers and industry analysts said they expected this year's holiday shipping volume to remain relatively flat compared with 2001 due to a lackluster U.S. economy, a weak job market and concerns about rising fuel prices.

A Customs Service rule requiring maritime carriers to provide a manifest at least 24 hours before ships leave a foreign port for the United States went into effect Dec. 2, but will not be strictly enforced until February, the agency said.