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Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. Among the money set aside for the construction of bridges and highways as part of the just-enacted, six-year federal highway funding act was $25 million for a pilot project to increase the number of truck parking facilities along the nation’s highways.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. he number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits for the first time rose 6,000 in the week ended Aug. 13 to 316,000, but remained below this year’s average, according to a Labor Department report released Thursday.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. ederal investigators released a new list of safety shortcomings at BP PLC’s Texas refinery Wednesday, and said an independent panel should investigate the company’s safety culture in the wake of a March 23 blast at the plant which injured 170 people and killed 15, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. img src="http://www.ttnews.com/images/printeditiontag_new.gif" width=120 align=right>During a long and arduous congressional highway reauthorization process, an opportunity was missed to continue improving highway safety and save lives on our nation’s roads.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. he producer price index rose 1% in July, while prices excluding food and energy grew 0.4%, the largest increase since January, the Labor Department reported Wednesday.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. PS Inc. recently reminded its drivers not to leave truck engines running while they deliver packages, citing fuel costs, reported the New York Times.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. he average price of U.S. retail diesel exploded last week, rising 16 cents a gallon in the largest single-week increase ever recorded, according to the Department of Energy. The surge left prices at $2.567 a gallon, setting a new record for the second time in the past month.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. he union representing UPS Inc.'s pilots told the company Tuesday that it would not fly cargo transferred from Northwest Airlines Corp. if the airline’s mechanics go on strike Friday, reported the Associated Press.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. rude oil prices fell almost $3 a barrel, the biggest decline since April, following a Department of Energy report Wednesday showing that distillate fuel inventories, which include diesel, rose last week.

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