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Small GPS devices help prosecutors win convictions Journal Gazette and Times-Courier, IL - Thu, August 28, 2008 - 5:04 pm PDT - _ In New Brighton, Pa., a trucker's GPS system led police to charge him with setting his own home on fire. GPS records showed his rig was parked about 100 ... Read the full story...
Farmington Trucking Company Closing Down WHAM, NY - Thu, August 28, 2008 - 4:44 pm PDT - Priority Transportation is shutting down its trucking operation Friday. They say a lagging economy simply made it too hard to turn a profit. ... Read the full story...
Prosecutors Using GPS to Put Lie to Alibis The Ledger, FL - Thu, August 28, 2008 - 4:06 pm PDT - In New Brighton, Pa., a trucker's GPS system led police to charge him with setting his own home on fire. GPS records showed his rig was parked about 100 ... Read the full story...
PACCAR Suffering US Slowdown Trading Markets (press release), CA - Thu, August 28, 2008 - 5:06 am PDT - However, truck retail sales during the first half of the year dampened due to the increase in diesel prices along with the depressing housing market ... Read the full story...
Analyst Blog PACCAR Suffering US Slowdown Zacks.com, IL - Wed, August 27, 2008 - 12:00 am PDT - However, truck retail sales during the first half of the year dampened due to the increase in diesel prices along with the depressing housing market ... Read the full story...
E-bikes have 'arrived' in India DailyIndia.com, FL - Wed, August 27, 2008 - 12:00 am PDT - 27: To overcome the increase in petrol and diesel prices, travellers in Punjab are taking to bikes powered by electricity, which reduce pollution and also ... Read the full story...
Settlement reached in wetland dumping case St. Cloud Times, MN - Thu, August 28, 2008 - 3:06 pm PDT - By Kari Petrie • kpetrie@stcloudtimes.com • August 28, 2008 ST. PAUL — A Sauk Rapids landfill company, its owner and a Morris construction company agreed to ... Read the full story...
GA terminal to go out for bids Myrtle Beach Sun News, SC - Thu, August 28, 2008 - 7:06 am PDT - By Mike Cherney - mcherney@thesunnews.com The revised plan to build a new general aviation terminal at Myrtle Beach International Airport is scheduled to be ... Read the full story...
How can Amtrak get better? It's cloutless The Free Lance-Star, VA - Wed, August 27, 2008 - 11:06 pm PDT - The lobbies financed by the wealthy, powerful airlines, automobile, oil, and highway construction industries--not poor, puny little Amtrak. Read the full story...
No highway construction over holiday weekend KVOA.com, AZ - Wed, August 27, 2008 - 12:00 am PDT - AP - August 27, 2008 7:34 PM ET PHOENIX (AP) - Arizona Department of Transportation construction crews will be taking the holiday weekend off. ... Read the full story...
Pilot who died in crash north of Gilroy identified The Salinas Californian, CA - Thu, August 28, 2008 - 4:37 pm PDT - The plane, which had taken off from South County Airport, slammed into a California Highway Patrol truck inspection building, but no one was inside when the ... Read the full story...
Truck driver charged in fatal crash Asheville Citizen-Times, NC - Thu, August 28, 2008 - 4:06 pm PDT - ASHEVILLE – The NC State Highway Patrol charged a Western Virginia truck driver involved in a fatal chain-reaction crash last month with misdemeanor death ... Read the full story...
Deputy: Trooper’s funeral scheduled for next week Great Falls Tribune, MT - Thu, August 28, 2008 - 3:06 pm PDT - KALISPELL (AP) — Funeral services are scheduled next week for the Montana Highway Patrol trooper who was killed in a head-on crash while pursuing another ... Read the full story...
BREAKING NEWS: Police catch 'plaid shirt robber' Daily Mail - Charleston, WV - Thu, August 28, 2008 - 3:06 pm PDT - ... Mo., when he crashed his pick up truck into a culvert near his home. But he was able to elude FBI agents and members of the Missouri State Highway Patrol. Read the full story...
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