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Truck maker Freightliner LLC said Tuesday it would cut output and lay off 800 workers early next year at its St. Thomas, Ontario, manufacturing plant, which makes Sterling-brand heavy- and medium-duty trucks.

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Tire maker Bridgestone Americas Holding said Tuesday it would acquire tire retreading company Bandag Inc. in a deal worth $1.05 billion, based on cash purchase of Bandag’s stock, at $50.75 per share cash.

The national average price of diesel rose 5.1 cents to $2.618 a gallon, while gasoline rose by the same amount to $2.297, the Department of Energy said Monday.

Ron Have, president and owner of Freightmasters Inc., Eagan, Minn., has purchased Major Transport, an Eagan-based nationwide truckload carrier, from Wayne Hoovestol.

The New York Times criticized trucking industry safety rules in a story published Sunday that the paper said was the first in a series looking at the Bush administration’s deregulation strategy.

Michigan and the Canadian province of Ontario have signed an agreement aimed at improving safety and keeping traffic moving across the busy Windsor-Detroit border crossing, the Associated Press reported.

Trucking and intermodal firm Trailer Bridge said Monday that Nasdaq has approved it to trade on the Nasdaq Global Market, formerly known as the Nasdaq National Market.

A planned multi-billion dollar toll road in Texas that would recoup its costs by charging tolls may prompt truckers to avoid the highway, the Waco (Texas) Tribune-Herald newspaper reported Monday.

Gasoline prices rose 4 cents in the past two weeks to $2.27 a gallon, according to the latest Lundberg Survey of filling stations released Sunday.