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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Technology and Maintenance Council should be the lead clearinghouse for unbiased test data on cleaner-burning diesel engines entering the market now and in 2007, the head of one of the nation's largest trucking and logistics companies said last week.

Canada has proposed requiring new trailers to have rear underride guards stronger than those trucks must have in the United States.

Landair Shows Slightly Lower 3Q Earnings • Initial Jobless Claims Fall by 25,000 • Overnite Reports Best Quarter Since '94 • Volvo Posts 3Q Profit, Helped by U.S. Sales • And more . . .

America is at war with terrorism, and the trucking industry is answering our country's call to arms.

Trucking executives were scheduled to meet last week with U.S. Customs Service officials to iron out details of two programs intended to speed the flow of freight and halt potentially suspicious cross-border shipments between the United States and Canada.

Western Star Trucks Roll Off Portland Line • Analysts See Bush Rhetoric Pushing Oil Price Up • U.S. Xpress Improves 3Q Results • USF Sees Weaker 3Q on Freight Unit Loss • And more...

The Federal Reserve said Wednesday that economic growth in the United States was "sluggish in September and early October."

For the first time in a long while there was a steady stream of positive economic news from trucking companies.

Consolidated Freightways Corp. has completed delivery of freight that remained in its system and has shut down its U.S. trucking operations, the company said Oct. 10.