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On the front page of the July 30 issue of Transport Topics, there was an article titled, “NHTSA Revises ’06 Deaths Down to Lowest Total Since 2002.” On the same front page, there was another article titled, “Court Rejects HOS Rule.” Does anyone in the government read their own reports?

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett’s investment company, Berkshire Hathaway, may boost its freight rail line Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. to 25%, the Associated Press reported.

The Institute for Supply Management’s manufacturing index declined last month, ISM said Tuesday.

Construction spending fell in July by the most since January, the Commerce Department said Tuesday.

Fleets can save fuel — possibly by as much as 5% — by “overspec’ing” engines, according to PHH FirstFleet, an asset, financial and technology management company for fleets.

In a time when a computer is more likely to answer a business phone than a live human being, getting a call from a breathing, thinking person at 2 a.m. telling you that your Volvo is showing some unusually serious departures from its normal coolant temperature has to qualify as unique

Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise said Aug. 13 it had started construction on all four of its major toll plazas to convert existing electronic tolling lanes to open-road tolling lanes.

General Motors Corp. said it is testing a combustion process in concept cars that could raise fuel economy by 15% over current conventional engines, the Associated Press reported.

Continued softness in the housing industry contributed to another month’s drop in truck freight volume during July, when tonnage fell 3.7% from last year, American Trucking Associations said last week.

The Surface Transportation Board said it will conduct a sweeping analysis of competition in the U.S. railroad industry, after a new government report raised suspicion that some rail freight rates in selected markets might not be justified or reasonable.