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The nation’s purchasing managers rang in 2002 with an important note of optimism, indicating that the economy could be close to bottoming out and that a long-awaited upturn in the factory sector might be very near.

WASHINGTON — The United States should be fully ready to open its border to Mexican trucks by the middle of this year, according to U.S. Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta.

The first major snowfall this year along the East Coast fell overnight Sunday, and had motorists waking up to nearly a foot of snow in some places on Monday, news services reported.

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Click here to write your own Letter to the Editor. s a 21-year veteran of the truck industry, it is now time I must bid farewell.

U.S. Ponders Extending Cargo Security Shield • Corning to Reopen Four Plants • Rail Intermodal Down 2.6% From Previous Year • Supreme Court Ends CF’s Bid to Block Suits • Bush, Greenspan Discuss Stimulus • And more...

The price of diesel fuel remained virtually static last week, according to a report released Monday by the Department of Energy.

Trucking won several major regulatory victories in 2001, beginning with the rollback of a mandatory worker protection program that would have cost the industry billions of dollars annually to implement.

U.S. Services Index Rises Again • EPA, Other Agencies Sued Over Fuel Use • FedEx Unit Forms Alliance With European Company • Daschle Calls for Modest Tax Cuts • And more...