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Continental Tire Sponsors Big-Rig Truck Racing Series
FORT MILL, SC -- Get ready to start your engines! Continental Tire's Commercial Vehicle Tire group is now the named tire sponsor of the ChampTruck series, North America's competitive big-rig truck racing as the second contest this season is set for this weekend.
U.S. For-Hire Truck Tonnage Softens
ARLINGTON, VA -- The amount of for-hire truck freight moved in the U.S. fell in April to its lowest level in a year, according to the American Trucking Associations. Its seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index declined 3% from the month before following a revised gain of 0.4% in March. The April index reading of 128.6 is the lowest level since April 2014. The all-time high of 135.8 was reached in January 2015.
Tolls Mulled as Solution for Gardiner Expressway Costs
TORONTO -- As the debate continues both inside and outside of Toronto about whether to tear down or rebuild the eastern end of the Gardiner Expressway a new plan has surfaced within the city's government. Some councillors have been discussing the idea of putting tolls along the route for non-Toronto residents, with the money going to pay for repairs and upkeep of the elevated roadway, according to published reports. If such a plan is adopted, the city owned freeway, would either turned over the provincial government or Toronto would at least have to get permission from the Ontario government to implement tolls
