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Congress should not allow the performance of critical highway corridors to continue to deteriorate, the Senate subcommittees on surface transportation and infrastructure were told Monday.

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A federal court on Friday rejected a bid by two makers of heavy-duty truck engines to overturn part of the Environmental Protection Agency’s plan to require lower-emission engines as of Oct. 1, and engine maker Caterpillar Inc. announced its first layoffs related to that issue.

The U.S. unemployment rate fell to 5.7% in August – the lowest level since March, the Department of Labor said Friday.

Taking a bigger bite from highway trust funds for rail projects is one way Congress could relieve freight rail bottlenecks at major intermodal hubs, according to a new report by the Congressional Research Service.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. f we need to make parking spaces longer and wider to accommodate larger trucks, as driver Dan Hahn of East-West Motor Express/SMX suggested, we’ll further reduce available space by doing so.

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A Pennsylvania congressman and representatives of the trucking industry called on Pennsylvania Gov. Mark Schweiker to block proposed sharp toll increases on seven of the toll bridges linking the state to New Jersey.

New orders at U.S. manufacturers rose 4.7% in July, the Commerce Department said Thursday, which was the biggest increase since October 2001 and matched analysts’ expectations..

Productivity of U.S. workers rose in the second quarter at a faster pace than initially reported, the Labor Department said Thursday.