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ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The first of four public hearings an Environmental Protection Agency panel will hold on potential problems complying with its diesel engine and ultra-low-sulfur fuel regulations produced familiar arguments that reduced emissions engines will be expensive and hard to design but that refiners will be able to make the required low-sulfur fuel.

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Click here to write a Letter to the Editor.I agree with Donald J. Schneider’s concerns over the early introduction of the new engine emissions standards ("EPA’s New Engine Standard: An Economic and Environmental Defeat Device," Opinion, 5-20, p. 9). The lower fuel economy and increased initial cost of the equipment will put a great strain on the trucking industry.

The Transport Topics Publishing Group has named Bruce Harmon to serve once again as news editor of Transport Topics newspaper, a position he held for a short period last year.

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Consolidated Freightways Corp. said Tuesday that its board has named John P. Brincko its new president and chief executive officer.

The national average price of diesel fuel slipped 0.1 cent per gallon last week to $1.308, the U.S. Department of Energy reported Tuesday.

The U.S. economy expanded at a 5.6% annual rate during the first quarter of 2002, slightly slower than previously reported, the Commerce Department said Friday.

The Department of Transportation published a regulatory agenda in the Federal Register May 13 that targets March 2003 as the time it will issue a final rule on the number of hours a truck driver may work.