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HANOVER, Germany — Demand for new heavy-duty trucks in North America has grown to 300,000 units for this year, but supply shortages and production constraints will limit sales by truck makers to no more than 250,000, according to Rainer Schmueckle, chief executive officer of Freightliner LLC.

The price of crude oil in New York exceeded a record $50 a barrel on Tuesday as Nigerian rebels threatened oil output and U.S. Gulf of Mexico supplies remained almost a third below normal, Bloomberg reported.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. ANOVER, Germany - At the world’s biggest truck show — the International Motor Show for Commercial Vehicles, held every other year at the massive fairgrounds of this city — 1,361 vendors from 39 countries displayed their wares in 11 exhibition halls, utilizing 2.4 million square feet of floor space.

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The price of crude oil neared $50 a barrel in New York, and hit a new record in New York and in London on Monday amid concern rebel attacks in Nigeria would reduce production as U.S. refiners continue to struggle to replenish supplies disrupted by Hurricane Ivan, Bloomberg reported..

HANOVER, Germany — Freightliner LLC has begun a program to voluntarily upgrade 30,000 of the earliest engines that its Detroit Diesel Corp. subsidiary produced beginning with the 2003 model year to comply with new emissions rules in the United States.

Hurricane Jeanne, the fourth storm to hit Florida in six weeks, shut down much of the state and was blamed for at least six deaths, news services reported..

Xata Begins Offering Temperature-Monitoring System • Louisiana Court Shields Off-Road Diesel From Local Tax • DST Names Chung President

The national average retail price for regular gasoline on Friday was $1.91 per gallon, up 5.32 cents during the past two weeks, according to the Lundberg Survey of 8,000 stations nationwide.