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The Technology & Maintenance Council has coined a new title for the first national skills competition for commercial vehicle technologies: TMCSuperTech2005.

The price of crude oil closed just shy of $60 Monday as Tropical Storm Cindy threatened to disrupt oil supplies in the Gulf of Mexico.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. he Institute for Supply Management said Friday that manufacturing activity expanded in June for the first time this year.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. fter tailing off from record highs this week, oil prices jumped $2.25 Friday to close at $58.75 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, Bloomberg reported.

Landair Transportation Properties, a subsidiary of Landair Transport, a Greeneville Tenn.-based trucking company, has been dissolved, the Greeneville Sun reported.

The University of Michigan's final consumer sentiment index for June rose for the first time this year, the university said Friday.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. he Senate approved the Central American Free Trade Agreement late Thursday, by a 54-45 vote after intense lobbying from the Bush administration, the Associated Press reported.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. innesota transportation officials said they have closed more than 90 rest stops in the state after lawmakers failed to reach a budget agreement for fiscal year 2006, which begins Friday.

Construction spending fell 0.9% in May, and new data revisions revised recent reported increases downward, the Commerce Department said Friday.

Rail freight traffic rose for the week ended June 25 compared with the same week last year, and intermodal volume continued to increase, the Association of American Railroads said.