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Trucking companies may go to the Oregon Trucking Associations Web site to find out how much they would pay under OTA’s proposed alternative to the state’s weight-distance tax.

The U.S. Customs Service didn't get the funding from Congress it wanted to upgrade its aging computer system, so importers may end up stuck with the bill.

Automotive supplier Dana Corp. of Toledo announced it has reached a definitive agreement to buy the engine-parts business of Federal-Mogul Corp. of Southfield, Mich., for $430 million.

Orders to American factories for big-ticket durable goods rose 0.9 percent in September, pulled higher by demand for automobiles, communications equipment and military goods.

Gov. John Kitzhaber will ask the Oregon Legislature to hire 100 more state troopers to patrol highways.

Volvo Truck Corp. agreed to pay a fine of $5 million and fund $9 million in environmental projects to settle claims by the Environmental Protection Agency that it violated clean-air rules only because the cost of challenging the federal agency in court would have been too expensive.

The U.S. Department of Labor will award a $1.2 million grant to the ATA Foundation to train workers who've lost their jobs in other industries to become long-haul truck drivers.

Nearly 150 trucking executives joined community volunteers on a sunny Saturday in New Orleans to paint, plant and rejuvenate their industry image.

Germany's new "red-green" coalition government has announced that it will raise diesel fuel taxes by the equivalent of 14 cents, bringing the total take to roughly $1.61 per gallon.