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The Canadian Trucking Alliance has announced recommendations urging Canada’s federal Minister of Finance to include incentives in his next budget to help the nation’s trucking industry cope with increased costs related to new fuel and emission regulations, the trucking group said Tuesday.

Tire manufacturer Bridgestone Firestone will supply its tires to truck makers Volvo Trucks North America and Mack Trucks Inc. as standard equipment on all new vehicles for the North American market, Volvo said Monday.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will allow truckload carrier Werner Enterprises to continue to operate its paperless log system, which is based on Global Positioning System technology, for another two years, the agency said.

Private equity firm Fenway Partners has acquired intermodal carrier RoadLink USA, Fenway said Monday.

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The Bush Administration proposed last Thursday a program designed to double the use of such fuels such as ethanol and biodiesel, the Environmental Protection Agency said in a statement.

The Environmental Protection Agency said it would issue guidelines for urea-injection systems on diesel engines as early as next month.

Gasoline prices fell 21 cents in the past two weeks to $2.66 a gallon, according to the latest Lundberg Survey of filling stations released Sunday.

The governing body of the FedEx unit of the Air Line Pilots Association has approved a tentative contract agreement with the parcel carrier, the pilots union said Friday.

President Bush will nominate former UPS executive Jovita Carranza to the post of Deputy Administrator of the Small Business Association, SBA said Friday.