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CINCINNATI — The Technology and Maintenance Council is studying what can be done to decrease corrosion on trucks and trailers caused by ice-clearing and dust-settling chemicals on highways.

The number of Americans applying for unemployment insurance in the week ended Sept. 6 rose to the highest level in two months, the Labor Department reported Thursday.

The Bush administration has asked for the Supreme Court's help in a fight over allowing Mexican trucks on U.S. roadways, the Associated Press reported.

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Refinements rather than major makeovers are what most medium-duty truck manufacturers are offering in their 2004 models, although one manufacturer has redone its product line and all OEMs will sell new diesel engines built to comply with the federal government’s stricter emissions standards.

Two years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, American Trucking Associations President Bill Graves said the trucking industry was spending hundreds of millions of dollars to heighten security to a level “that we have never seen in our industry.”

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Click here to write a Letter to the Editor.Trucking is starting to show growth that many economists associate with a true improvement in the U.S. economy, the Associated Press reported Wednesday.

The Department of Transportation will not stop requiring placards for hazardous material shipments, although the Department of ���ϳԹ���land Security wants to change or discontinue the familiar diamond-shaped labels because they could be a magnet for terrorists, DOT officials and others familiar with the issue said.

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