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Western Star Trucks Roll Off Portland Line • Analysts See Bush Rhetoric Pushing Oil Price Up • U.S. Xpress Improves 3Q Results • USF Sees Weaker 3Q on Freight Unit Loss • And more...

For the first time in a long while there was a steady stream of positive economic news from trucking companies.

Consolidated Freightways Corp. has completed delivery of freight that remained in its system and has shut down its U.S. trucking operations, the company said Oct. 10.

Ohio Navistar Workers Report to Job Without Contract • Paccar Reports 'Excellent' Revenue, Earnings in 3Q • Florida East Coast Ends Regional Long-Haul Trucking • UPS Posts Slight Increase in 3Q Earnings • And more ...

Truck Bomb Threat Remains, NY Times Says • Sniper Dragnets Snarl Washington Area Traffic • Attack by Unknown Assailant Cripples Internet Servers

The accountants looking over the books of Arensdorf Trucking for the fiscal year ended June 1 had some good news for owner Jerry Arensdorf.

Trucks and trailers, computers and software, insurance and financial services were some of the products and services scheduled to be featured at the American Trucking Associations' Management Conference & Exhibition on Oct. 27-30 in Orlando, Fla.

Drug and alcohol use among truck drivers dropped slightly in 2001 from 2000 levels, but the decrease was insufficient to change the percentage of drivers who carriers must test for illegal drugs each year, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said last week.

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