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New York Gov. David Paterson (D) has proposed requiring truck drivers there to use only Global Positioning System devices that are equipped with truck route information to keep them off restricted roads.

Safety investigators nabbed 77 commercial driver and 84 companies for failing to comply with federal drug and alcohol regulations, the Department of Transportation announced Friday.

Aljex Software, Middlesex, N.J., said it has joined forces with Capital Associates to offer factoring and accounts receivable services to users.

The settlement that American Trucking Associations negotiated with the Port of Long Beach last week is the kind of compromise that is so difficult to accomplish: Both sides got most of what they wanted.

This is in response to the letter titled “Distracted Driving” in the Oct. 12 issue. It seems everyone with a dog in this fight is cherry-picking the latest data regarding the texting issue.

CHICAGO — An executive of Navistar Inc. has moved to separate his company from its mostly foreign-owned truck maker competitors, telling reporters, “We are going to offer customers a distinctive technology for North America” in the company’s 2010 products.

Many trucking fleets are continuing to buy automatic and automated manual transmissions during the recession, despite a premium of $4,000 to $8,000 over traditional standard manual transmissions, industry executives and manufacturers have said.

WASHINGTON — The first vice chairwoman of American Trucking Associations joined a pair of Republican senators to decry the climate legislation being debated in Congress, saying it will amount to a huge tax increase on fuel.

Arkansas Best Corp. announced Robert Davidson, its president and chief executive officer, would retire Dec. 31 and that Judy McReynolds, currently its chief financial officer, would succeed him, becoming the only woman running a publicly traded trucking company.