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With the travel season approaching and reduced production from leading oil exporters, consumers have seen huge increases in the price of gasoline across the United States, private and government analysts said.

Consumers are feeling better about the U.S. economy than they have in a very long time, a University of Michigan survey said Thursday. Also Thursday, an industry group said that manufacturing activity in the Midwest rose for the second straight month.

In response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, many have seized upon the commercial driver license as a tool to protect the country from truck-borne violence.

SAN ANTONIO — Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, law enforcement agencies have shifted their attention to preventing terrorism and are spending less time on cargo theft crimes, officials told the semi-annual meeting of American Trucking Associations’ Safety and Loss Prevention Management Council.

The U.S. economy expanded at an annual rate of 1.7% in the fourth quarter of 2001, the fastest pace in a year, as consumer and government spending grew despite the recession, a government report showed Thursday.

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The rate at which new homes are being sold in the United States jumped 5.3% in February to an annualized pace of 875,000, a government report released Wednesday said.

Thousands of truck driving students have been sent home and scores of training schools may yet be forced to shut down because of the loss of funding for student loans, according to industry sources.

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