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The prices U.S. consumers paid for goods rose during September as energy, health car and automobile costs all pushed higher, the government said Friday.

Just three months after agreeing to a new two-year contract with its employees at its heavy-duty truck plant in Chatham, Ontario, International Truck and Engine Corp. said it will close the facility sometime in the summer of 2003.

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Sales of heavy-duty trucks soared 39.7% in September from a year earlier, as fleets continued to buy trucks with engines made before tougher federal emissions standards took effect Oct. 1.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Oct. 11 asked for comments on event-data recorders to help with motor-vehicle crash investigations.

Production at the nation's factories, mines and utilities dropped for two consecutive months for the first time this year, continuing August's 0.3% decline with a 0.1% drop in September, the Federal Reserve reported Thursday.

The number of new homes being built in the United States jumped 13.3% in September to an annual rate of 1.843 million – the highest in 16 years, the Commerce Department said.

As trucking companies joined the transport surge to move stacked-up freight at jammed West Coast ports, industry officials and analysts differed on whether the freight disruption would diminish or enhance the financial performance of carriers and logistics companies that depend on servicing the ports.

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