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Reflecting carriers’ optimism about the business outlook for trucking, several truck and engine makers recently pointed to a stabilizing market for their products, more orders, higher build rates and gains in new customers as reasons they believed business should improve through the end of the year and into 2004.

More Truck Stops to Get Wireless Internet Access • Device That Changes Traffic Signals Raises Safety Concerns • XM Posts Net Loss in 3Q • Terion Names New CFO •

NEW YORK — Motor carriers said they soon would increase freight rates and more stringently enforce collection of detention fees to offset the expected costs of lost productivity and higher driver wages resulting from new federal work rules.

Mileage on heavy-duty diesel engines designed to meet the October 2002 emissions requirements is accumulating to the point that maintenance issues have become a major topic for discussion at the first-ever meeting in Canada of the Technology & Maintenance Council, organizers said.

Sorting out the hype from reality in the burgeoning field of telematics would try a wizard, but as 2004 approaches it appears that the fully networked vehicle is fast becoming fact rather than science fiction. br clear=all>

WTO Panel Says U.S. Steel Duties Illegal • Chicago Fed’s Moskow Upbeat on Economy • Manufacturing in K.C. Fed Region Expands at Slower Pace • Lundberg: Gasoline Prices Fall 4 Cents Over Two Weeks • And more...

The Transportation Security Administration unveiled a long-awaited plan to delay at least to April 1 its earlier deadline for states to begin fingerprinting people who apply for new or renewal certifications to haul hazardous materials.

The U.S. economy added 126,000 jobs in October, pushing the unemployment rate down to 6% from 6.1%, the Labor Department reported Friday..

A group of major U.S. transportation companies said they won the right to collect up to $8 million from WorldPoint Logistics, when a Seattle judge ruled carriers’ bills of lading may be enforced during bankruptcy proceedings.