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Delphi Narrows 3Q Loss • OPEC Expects Cuts Forecast for 2005 Oil Demand • Amex Officials to Continue Listing Allied Holdings

The Missouri Department of Transportation is considered turning Interstate 70 into a toll road, news service reported.

GOTHENBERG, Sweden — Top officials of the world’s largest producer of heavy-duty diesel truck engines said that selective catalytic reduction is the sole technology the industry has found that can meet the tighter emission rules that will go into effect in the United States in 2010.

LAS VEGAS — North America’s leading truck maker, Freightliner LLC, will begin “in the next few weeks” road testing of engines built to meet 2007 federal emissions regulations, Chief Executive Officer Rainer Schmueckle said..

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. ith fuel prices up more than 65% since 1994, insurance and wage rates up, confusing hours-of-service regulation reform and our nation’s ever-increasing security concerns, trucking profit margins are still thin relative to many other industries — and the competition to succeed is fierce.

International, Eaton Team for Diesel-Electric Pilot Program • EPA Announces Idle-Reduction Grants • Qualcomm to Expand Operations Center in Las Vegas • AirIQ Closes Acquisition of Boatracs • And more...

LAS VEGAS — Joseph Chapman, operations manger of truckload carrier Triple S Trucking, said a $16,900 investment earlier this year in more fuel-efficient equipment would turn into more than $77,300 in savings by the end of 2005..

Overall industrial production in the United States inched up 0.1% in September, but work in factories dropped 0.3%, the Federal Reserve said Friday..

The Commerce Department said Friday that retail sales rose 1.5% in September, the most in six months..

LAS VEGAS — American Trucking Associations President Bill Graves urged members to help further enhance the industry’s public image and to get more involved in the national and local political processes.