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Michelin North America | A Michelin employee makes a final check on a retreaded tire. |  | On the Lookout for Counterfeit Retreads | “Look-alike” tires carry no brand name but use tread designs and other features stolen from reputable manufacturers, and also sell for far less. These tires pose multiple risks to truck owners. |
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In an effort to spur sales of its medium-duty diesel electric hybrid truck, Navistar is offering lease programs and incentives that could take $16,000 off the price of a new truck, the company said in a release. |
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Ford Motor Co., moving to wean itself from dependence on light trucks, said it will spend at least $75 million to convert a Michigan sport-utility vehicle factory to build cars, Bloomberg News reported. |
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General Motors Corp.’s U.S. dealers are reporting that a decline in pickup-truck sales may be “bottoming out” and that some demand is returning for large sport-utility vehicles, Vice Chairman Bob Lutz said, Bloomberg News reported. |
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U.S. fatalities from traffic accidents involving drunk drivers fell 3.7% last year, a second straight decline, the Transportation Department said, Bloomberg News reported. |
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Built With Good Intentions
These must be heady days for futurists. Surrounded by price increase in everything we touch, one has to ask, ‘What’s next?’ How will high fuel prices play out over the coming years? |
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Used Fluids Find Second Lives
The minuscule silver lining of $5-a-gallon diesel fuel is that many motor carriers now play a role in the oil business, as used engine oil is now a valuable feed-stock for new lubricating oils. |
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More Green Trucks for 2009
In case you missed the fashion memo, the color for 2009 is green, as in environmentally-friendly, fuel-saving, diesel electric hybrid trucks. |
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The federal government will provide $4 million in emergency relief
funds to Louisiana and Mississippi to help repair roads and bridges
damaged by floods caused by Hurricane Gustav, U.S. Transportation
Secretary Mary Peters said Friday. |
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Rail and intermodal traffic both declined for the week ended Saturday compared with a year ago, the Association of American Railroads said. |
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U.S. payrolls plummeted in August as the unemployment rate soared to
6.1%, tying a 2003 record, the Labor Department said Friday.
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The New Jersey Turnpike Authority asked Gov. Jon Corzine (D) to approve
a series of toll increases on two of the state’s major toll roads to
pay for infrastructure improvements, the Associated Press reported.
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American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings will expand a factory in Michigan to build more parts for large commercial trucks, reducing its reliance on General Motors Corp. for business, Bloomberg reported Thursday. |
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