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In 1993, United States officials signed the North American Free Trade Agreement, in which they committed the nation to a series of actions to encourage the movement of goods and services between the continent’s three primary tenants. br clear=all.

The Federal Reserve's interest-rate cutting campaign appears to be slowly helping the U.S. economy and the manufacturing sector, two reports released on Friday showed.

A number of freight transportation companies with strong commercial Web sites, led by trucking giant Yellow Corp., were ranked among the nation’s top 100 e-businesses by a widely circulated technology magazine.

Trucks driving on Interstate 95 in Maine would be exempt from federal weight limits for three years under a bill introduced in Congress. he bill, sponsored by Rep. John Baldacci (D-Maine), would do away with the 80,000-pound weight limit for trucks on that highway for a three-year period.

Dimitrios Dardalis thinks he has a design that will enable producers to wring greater fuel efficiency from diesel engines while greatly reducing overhaul requirements. ardalis, a mechanical engineering doctoral candidate at the University of Texas at Austin, patented a wear-reducing concept that involves the use of rotating cylinder bore liners to reduce boundary friction during the combustion cycle.

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PITTSBURGH — Technologies that monitor fatigue levels may one day replace the need for hours-of-service limitations on truck drivers, a Department of Transportation official told participants at a truck safety conference here June 18.

Freightliner LLC said Wednesday that it will lay off 1,120 employees at four North American manufacturing plants from July through October.