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Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. roduction came to a halt Saturday at a Pepsi plant in Southern New Jersey after nearly 300 workers who bottle and deliver Pepsi products went on strike over health benefits, reported the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. img src="http://www.ttnews.com/images/printeditiontag_new.gif" width=120 align=right>Trucks may get their own lanes on parts of Atlanta's interstate highway system after a study by the Georgia State Road and Tollway Authority suggested Atlanta metro-area interstates would be 20% less crowded if truck-only toll lanes were added instead of previously proposed carpool lanes.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. roduction at U.S. factories, mines and utilities rose by a less-than-expected 0.1% in July, the Federal Reserve said Tuesday.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor.Trucking officials said they believe a controversial plan to impose tolls on Interstate 81 in Virginia and force trucks onto separate lanes probably is dead, as the state received much less money under the new federal highway spending legislation than it had anticipated.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. .S. housing starts in July declined 0.1% from a four-month high in June, remaining at a level that suggests sales are improving as jobs increase and builders step up construction on a backlog of homes waiting to be built, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. ir cargo shipments increased 2.4% in June compared with a year earlier, with both domestic and international shipments increasing, the Air Transport Association reported Tuesday.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. rices paid by consumers rose 0.5% in July, while the so-called "core" consumer price index, which excludes food and energy, rose 0.1% for a third month, the Labor Department reported Tuesday.

Cargo Connection Logistics Holding Inc. said Monday it had formed a new subsidiary to attract independent contractors and other carriers to haul cargo.

Truckload carrier Knight Transportation Inc. said Monday it had acquired 100% of the stock of Idaho Falls, Idaho-based refrigerated carrier Edwards Bros.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor.The price of crude oil fell in early trading Monday, but remained above $66 a barrel ahead of the U.S. Department of Energy’s reports on the prices of diesel fuel and gasoline.