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Truck and engine dealers and independent repair shops are trying hard to persuade truck fleets to outsource more of their maintenance work, but can they satisfy their customers?

A U.S. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration official, responding to a report from a Latin American newswire service, told Transport Topics that the United States is not yet ready to open the border to Mexican trucks.

In another apparent sign of declining consumer confidence, U.S. retail sales fell in February for the first time since November, the Commerce Department said Tuesday.

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Stocks plunged on Wednesday, taking the Dow Jones industrials down as much as 395 points before recovering some, as a deepening pessimism about the global economy swept Wall Street for the second time this week.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Maintenance Council of the American Trucking Associations this week was holding its last meeting under that name, and numerous members here embraced the group’s new mission for the future.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Oil, in a variety of forms, dominated Monday’s press conferences at the Technology and Maintenance Council, as two major oil companies and two oil-related firms rolled out new products. Most of these products dealt, in one way or another, with extending the life of engine oil.

Class 6 emerged at the end of 2000 as the only category of commercial trucks to see sales going up, not down, and the major reason, according to the salesmen, is that the driver does not need a commercial license to operate one.

Production of new tractors and trailers continued through a March 1 federal deadline for a new safety feature, thanks to a stockpile of the electronic chips needed to activate an in-cab warning light to alert drivers of malfunctioning antilock braking systems on trailers.