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As the Transportation Department moved to implement new security measures at airports and border crossings, freight haulers are bracing for longer delays, closer scrutiny of drivers and higher costs as some of the consequences of last week’s terrorist strike.

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Markets Up for Much of Day, Finish Down Again; More Tax Cuts May Help Economy, Fracture Congress; Airlines Seek $24 Billion Aid Plan; Diesel Engine Plant Resumes Output; and more...

Though it kept rolling in the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the trucking industry couldn’t buck the downward trend in stock prices Monday as Wall Street reopened for business.

While last week’s terrorist attacks triggered tremendous short-term dislocations of U.S. freight systems, trucking activity will suffer much more if the events of last week push the broad U.S. economy into a hard recession as many analysts now fear.

The Federal Reserve cut the overnight bank lending rate a half-percentage point to 3% on Monday morning.

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The retail price of diesel fuel rose 3.5 cents per gallon last week to $1.527, the highest average price since May 28, when it hit the year high of $1.529..

As rescue crews sift through rubble in Manhattan and Washington, D.C., U.S. passenger airlines are picking up the pieces of their industry and preparing to face an anticipated slowdown in air travel.