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The American Trucking Associations has posted a package of useful information for trucking companies in light of the events of September 11.

As the Transportation Department moved to implement new security measures at airports and border crossings, freight haulers are bracing for longer delays, closer scrutiny of drivers and higher costs as some of the consequences of last week’s terrorist strike.

Federal authorities last week searched truck cabs, tractors, cars and ship cargo holds along the nation’s borders and at its seaports, creating inspection lines that stretched for several miles at crossing points into Mexico and Canada and at some ports.

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Though it kept rolling in the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the trucking industry couldn’t buck the downward trend in stock prices Monday as Wall Street reopened for business.

While last week’s terrorist attacks triggered tremendous short-term dislocations of U.S. freight systems, trucking activity will suffer much more if the events of last week push the broad U.S. economy into a hard recession as many analysts now fear.

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