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TT File PhotoAmericans would support a 1% tax increase to pay for smooth streets with no potholes, a new poll found. A report on infrastructure needs and environmental improvements indicated that 69% of the 800 people surveyed would be "very willing" to pay more in taxes for smoother roads.

Detroit Diesel Corp. announced fourth quarter 1998 revenues of $563 million and record fourth quarter earnings of $10.3 million.

Bartlett Lifting Devices, a Chicago-based company, will become a division of Kalmar Industries USA, Ottawa, Kan., Kalmar announced last month.

Union Pacific Railroad has agreed to double its stake in a Mexican Railroad.

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The House was in no mood Wednesday to cut taxes.

File PhotoFedEx pilots approved their first contract with the cargo airline on Thursday, 2 1/2 months after backing down from a threatened strike.

The chairman of the House Transportation Committee showed states exactly what they'd get if extra gas-tax money were sent to them instead being spent on other federal programs.

Eaton Corp. wanted a leadership role in industrial hydraulics and got it Monday with an agreement to buy Aeroquip-Vickers Inc. for about $1.7 billion.

The trucking industry should trade government-sought safety enhancements for the right to increase productivity, James Hebe, chief executive officer of Freightliner Corp. said Tuesday.