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Click here to write a Letter to the Editor.FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The Diesel Engine Emissions Summit II showed just how quickly the trucking industry has learned how to live with the new federal laws governing heavy-duty diesel engine emissions. And with that knowledge, the attendees were shown, comes possible leverage.

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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — To reach the government‘s 2007 diesel emissions standards, engine manufacturers will refine changes they made to meet 2002 rules and will try to do it without a further loss of fuel efficiency, representatives told the Diesel Emissions Summit II here last week.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — High-tech equipment and software vendors who gathered here for the annual meeting of the Technology and Maintenance Council, a unit of American Trucking Associations, unveiled additional investments and new approaches to tracking and security.

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Mike Jeffress, the newly elected chairman of the Technology & Maintenance Council, said there is a nationwide shortage of qualified technicians and he wants TMC, a council of American Trucking Associations, to form alliances with state maintenance groups to do something about it.