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• Manufacturing slows down

  By Overdrive Staff
  Posted Aug 1st 2011 10:19AM

  Economic activity in the manufacturing sector expanded in July for the 24th consecutive month, but just barely, accor...

• Economy slows sharply in first half of year

  By Christopher S. Rugaber - The Associated Press
  Posted Jul 29th 2011 7:17AM

  WASHINGTON  — The economy expanded at meager rate of 1.3 percent annual rate in the spring after scarcely...

• Illinois approves uniform speeds on more roadways

  By Keith Goble, state legtistative editor - Land Line
  Posted Jul 29th 2011 5:34AM

  Truckers traveling through Illinois soon will be able to drive the same speed as other vehicles on more roadways thro...

• Trucking Couple Tell All They Know in 'Vans 101' Seminar at Expedite Expo

  By Tom Berg, Senior Editor - TruckingInfo.com
  Posted Jul 27th 2011 8:15AM

  Jenny Marcu, 26, comes from an expediter family - her parents and an aunt and uncle are all practitioners of this spe...

• NHTSA raises stopping distances at lower speed

  By Overdrive Staff
  Posted Jul 27th 2011 7:31AM

  The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on July 26 announced it is slightly relaxing its new stopping dist...