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Wholesale Prices Rise 0.4% on Food, Energy Costs
The producer price index, which tracks payments to factories, farmers and other producers, rose 0.4% in August on higher costs for energy and good, the Labor Department reported Friday..
September 12, 2003News Briefs - Sept. 12
FedEx, UPS Awarded New Hong Kong Cargo Flights • Mineta Urges Passage of Transportation Reauthorization Bill • Preliminary Consumer Sentiment Index Falls • Economists Predicting Strong Second Half of Year • And more...
September 12, 2003TMC Eyes Speedier Format For Fleets’ Warranty Claims
CINCINNATI — A new electronic format to simplify and speed up trucking fleets’ warranty claims to their suppliers could be in place as early as next year, industry representatives said this week.
September 12, 2003TMC Studies Ways to Curb Corrosion From Road Treatments
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.
September 12, 2003Initial Jobless Claims Rise to 422,000 in Latest Week
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.
September 11, 2003Bush Appeals to Supreme Court on Mexican Trucks
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.
September 11, 2003News Briefs - Sept. 11
Production at Mack Plant Suspended for Two Weeks • DaimlerChrysler to Invest in Chinese Truck Maker • U.S. Trade Deficit Widens in July • Dana CEO Magliochetti Is Hospitalized • And more...
September 11, 2003Medium-Duty Trucks -- Few New Models Set for 2004
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.
September 11, 2003Graves Emphasizes Trucking’s Commitment to Security
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.â€
September 11, 2003Security Briefs - Sept. 4 - Sept. 10
Security Questions Raised After Man Ships Self in Crate • GAO: Motor Vehicle Departments Vulnerable to Fraud • U.S. Warns Terrorists Could Hijack International Airliners • Poll: Americans Concerned There Could be Another Attack
September 10, 2003