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Joining a growing number of truckload carriers responding to the potential for new federal hours-of-service rules to cut drivers’ earnings, three companies last week announced a variety of driver-pay increases.

Preliminary Consumer Sentiment Index Drops • Yellow Roadway Corp. Names Executives • U.S. Trade Deficit Widens in October • USF Begins Mexican Joint Venture • And more...

Yellow Expects Profits of $3 a Share After Buying Roadway • Jobless Claims Rise by 13,000 in Latest Week • November Import Prices Rise 0.4% • Owens to Replace Retiring Barton as Caterpillar Chairman, CEO • And more...

Retail sales in the United States rose 0.9% in November to $322.4 billion on surging vehicle and electronics purchases, the Commerce Department reported Thursday..

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor.I find it troubling that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is changing drivers’ hours-of-service rules, and nobody is saying anything about compensating drivers.

Model-year 2004 cargo vans are little changed from the 2003 models, on the outside at least. However, manufacturers are continuing a decade-long shift in marketing by adding accessories and products that appeal to the commercial buyers who now make the majority of full-size van purchases.

New Food and Drug Administration border rules for food importers set to take effect Dec. 12 will require registration of terminals, but in a partial victory for the trucking industry, not registration of trucks.

The TTNews.com chat session on the new hours-of-service rules earlier this month generated more questions than could be answered during the 90-minute online session. TT asked Dr. Hank Goldberg, founder of Rair Industries and the sponsor of the session, to answer the technical queries.

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