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Qualcomm Inc. has released details about the next generation hardware in its MCP100 mobile computing system.

President Obama will ask Congress for tax breaks to allow businesses to write off new capital investments through 2011, the Associated Press reported Tuesday.

Garmin Ltd. recently recalled 796,000 Global Positioning System navigation units in the United States, but the company’s trucker-specific GPS navigation handheld was not affected, the company said.

Federal regulators for the first time in more than 30 years are proposing a redesign of the fuel economy label that consumers see on the window of new passenger vehicles and light trucks.

Intermodal projects continue to march forward on the state level as two Norfolk Southern Corp. projects are advancing and a new intermodal terminal has opened in North Dakota.

Anyone who relies too much on the stock market for advice on where the economy is headed these days is bound to get seasick.

Several trucking industry officials met with the Obama administration Sept. 1 to push for incentives for fleets to buy new equipment, arguing that sales are lagging because of high truck prices caused by federal emissions rules.

Trailer manufacturers say they are having problems finding enough tires to meet the surge in equipment orders, forcing them to take stiff price increases and offer customers less familiar tire brands.

American Trucking Associations asked a federal appeals court to reject the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s request to put on hold a lawsuit that would require the agency to publish rules stating what evidence fleets must retain to verify their drivers’ logbooks.