US truckers map out opposing green routes

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Two of the country's leading haulage trade associations are at loggerheads over proposals to cut emissions with larger trucks and slower speed limits

America's trucking industry, which transports the vast majority of goods around the country, is split over the best way to "green" a sector that is estimated to employ 3.5 million drivers and another 5.4...

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