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ATLANTA — Meritor WABCO demonstrated its new automatic braking system for heavy-duty trucks that is integrated with its anti-lock braking and stability control systems. Executives said the system can cut accident rates, especially rear-end collisions, which account for nearly 20% of all truck-involved crashes.

There are signs that the rise of global tire imports to the United States is beginning to slow as the economy weakens and costs increase.

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The federal government has awarded a $110 million grant toward a plan to turn some of metropolitan Atlanta's HOV lanes into HOT lanes, Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters announced Tuesday.

Navistar International Corp. will use federal emission credits to enable its new Class 8 engine to meet 2010 federal emission standards, although the engine could be set up to comply with the regulation without the credits, a Navistar executive said.

Pacer International announced last week that its subsidiaries will deploy 230 new clean trucks this month to comply with Southern California port regulations.

President-elect Barack Obama has named a five-person group to oversee the transition for the Department of Transportation.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration last week published its latest version of changes to the 60-year-old regulation governing commercial driver work rules.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Shippers, carriers and analysts meeting here agreed that the nation’s contracting economy is hurting freight transportation badly, but said they were hopeful the government would agree to critical transportation infrastructure improvements, financed by higher taxes.

This is a response to the article “Cash-Strapped Carriers Resort to Quick Pay Plans, Factoring” (10-13, p. 55). I would like to set the story straight.