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UPS Inc. said Friday it had placed an order for 50 hybrid electric delivery trucks and would acquire 4,100 low-emission conventional vehicles this year.

The U.S. producer price index rose 0.3% in January, the Labor Department reported Friday.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. lass 8 truck orders in North America are off to a galloping start in 2006, with January’s total reaching an all-time monthly high of 43,100 units.

With 2007-model year trucks set to use newly developed diesel particulate filters to control soot, questions still remain over how the new devices will affect truck performance, according to industry experts.

The Port of New Orleans said it has reached 100% of pre-Hurricane Katrina levels, and that it received approval Thursday to borrow up to $12 million for costs related to Katrina, the Associated Press reported.

YRC Worldwide lowered its previously reported earnings for the fourth quarter and 2005, and the company will cut about 200 jobs in Maryland, news reports said.

Florida has eased some restrictions on trucks to help agricultural producers more quickly transport crops that have impacted by freezing weather, the South Florida Business Journal reported.

The price of imported goods rose 1.3% in January, but just 0.2% excluding oil prices, the Labor Department said Thursday.

U.S. housing starts rose 15% in January, the biggest jump in 33 years, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. he number of workers filing initial unemployment claims rose by 19,000 last week to 297,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday.