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Surging demand for domestic steel is pushing more loads onto motor carriers that haul those products, industry officials and analysts say, as steel-reliant industries facing tight deadlines and limited supplies turn to trucks for quicker shipments than rail can provide.

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Housing starts in the United States dropped 4% during the month to a 1.855 million annual pace, the slowest since August, the Commerce Department said Tuesday.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. rucking faces many challenges in meeting the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2006/07/10 diesel rules. Industry’s implementation timeline has already begun to slip, raising concerns over how much time motor carriers will be afforded to test new engines.

The average retail price of diesel fuel declined 1.1 cents to $1.617 per gallon, the Department of Energy said Monday.

The Federal Reserve on Tuesday voted to leave the benchmark U.S. interest rate at a 45-year low of 1%, and policy makers said they would be "patient" on raising rates as the job market struggles to recover.

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Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. he General Accounting Office’s report on the phase-in of the 2002-04 federal diesel-emissions standards gives support to many of trucking’s complaints and urges the Environmental Protection Agency to take immediate steps to ensure that the 2007 standards don’t disrupt the industry as badly.

Industrial production in the United States rose 0.7% in February and the proportion of industrial capacity in use rose to its highest level since August 2001, the Federal Reserve said Monday.