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Wireless-services provider Qualcomm Inc. reported late Thursday that it earned $614 million or 36 cents a share in its fiscal fourth quarter ended Sept. 24, up 14% from the previous fourth quarter.

U.S. companies added 92,000 workers in October, pushing the unemployment rate down to a five-year low of 4.4% for the month, the Labor Department reported Friday.

I offended a trucker Tuesday, Sept. 26, while traveling in the right lane in my Honda Accord at 65 mph on Interstate 75 somewhere near Exit 170, at about 10 p.m.

David Everhart, co-founder Chief Operating Officer of IdleAire Technologies Corp., on Thursday resigned from the company due to ongoing medical issues.

FedEx Corp. will increase the net average shipping rate for FedEx Express by 3.5%, the company said Friday.

VINCENNES, Ind. — Clarence James “Mac” McCormick III, chairman and chief executive officer of dedicated contract carrier Bestway Express, and a former leader of the Truckload Carriers Association, said in an interview here earlier this year that he had entered the trucking business almost by accident.

Clarence James “Mac” McCormick III, chairman and chief executive officer of Bestway Express and chairman-elect of American Trucking Associations, died Oct. 26 in a crash of a small plane near Lawrenceville, Ill.

Engine manufacturer Caterpillar Inc. on Friday said it would reduce its workforce and shift some of its production capacity from truck to marine engines ahead of the rollout of the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2007 emission standards, Bloomberg reported.

R&L Carriers will sponsor the 2006 New Orleans Bowl, the Times-Picayune reported Friday.

Decker Truck Line of Fort Dodge, Iowa, will conduct a two-year trial of biodiesel that will allow researchers to compare the performance of the soy-based fuel with traditional diesel, the Associated Press reported Thursday.