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The government's refusal to extend the deadline for requiring cleaner-running diesel truck engines hit the truck manufacturing industry hard last week, as two major fleets said they would cut new truck purchases sharply and a large engine maker warned it would lay off production workers.

William D. Zollars, chairman and president of Yellow Corp., told financial news channel CNBC, Friday that, after improvements in tonnage and freight shipments during the second quarter, business has "flattened in the last six weeks."

Truck engines certified by the Environmental Protection Agency as meeting Oct. 1, 2002 standards may gather dust on the shelves for some time, if the results of an American Trucking Associations survey prove accurate.

Wholesale prices, which form the producer price index, fell 0.2% in July, the Labor Department said Thursday, as a sluggish economy limited what manufacturers could charge.

Final figures for fatalities in accidents involving big trucks during 2001 show a reduction of 200 from the previous year, rather than 19, as was stated in a preliminary report by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

FARMINGTON, Pa. — The Trucking Association Executives Council named J. Richards “Rick” Todd its chairman for 2003 and gave the Bob Halladay award to William J. Canary, American Trucking Associations’ president and chief executive officer.

Brig. Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody will take charge of the Army’s Military Traffic Management Command on Oct. 17 when the unit’s current commander, Maj. Gen. Kenneth L. Privratsky, retires from the service.

American Trucking Associations' report on the state of the insurance market — and a list of recommended solutions to the problem of spiraling premiums — added another voice to business’s outcry for meaningful tort reform, a remedy the insurance industry has been advocating for years.

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Inventories at U.S. wholesalers rose 0.3% to $281.86 billion in June, the first increase since May 2001, while sales at wholesalers rose twice as fast, the Commerce Department said Wednesday..