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New home sales jumped 3.4% in November, the Commerce Department said Wednesday.

The strength of consumer spending in 2007 will to be a big factor in the trucking industry’s health in 2007, the Associated Press reported.

Canada Sets ‘Soft Enforcement’ Period for New HOS Rules • Pa. Sets New Windshield-Wiper Law

Five years after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, the U.S. trucking industry spent 2006 addressing another proposed round of federal background-check requirements.

Canadian officials are proposing a C$345-million program requiring biofuel content of 5% in gasoline by 2010 and 2% in diesel fuel and heating oil by 2012, the Associated Press reported.

Descartes Group Completes Purchase Of Cube Route • EPA 'SmartWay' Loans Available to Small Trucking Companies • Navigon Acquires Navteq’s Software Business J.J. Keller Debuts New Software

The heartbeat of virtually every business enterprise is the ability to process data. Pressure is mounting on motor carriers to move more data and move it faster and to more partners as customer companies extend their supply chains across borders and increase their reliance on air, rail and ocean carriers to augment highway transportation.

The Customs and Border Protection Agency said it had increased security measures at the nation’s land borders, while truckers and other transportation groups said overlapping security requirements at ports, airports and railroads slowed the flow and movement of goods.

ALK Technologies, which provides mapping and other data to the trucking industry, said it will unveil a new Web-based service during the first quarter of 2007 to help carriers standardize mileage data and to provide additional information on tolls, freight rates and fuel prices.

More than a year after Minnesota’s biodiesel law took effect — drawing attention to quality-control problems with the production and distribution of the typically soy-based fuel — several states across the nation passed tax credits to encourage the use of biodiesel and considered legislation to establish their own statewide fuel mandates.