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Three missing trucks being sought in New York City
As authorities search for three missing trucks in New York City in Washington, Dulles Airport has been partially evacuated after a bomb-sniffing dog alerted authorities Saturday night.

A Transportation Security Administration told CNN that a dog sounded the alert when cargo was being loaded into an aircraft. Virginia State Police are on the scene.
Explosive teams are at B Concourse area at Dulles investigated a number of canisters but found no explosives or anything harmful.

Tonight CNN is reporting that there are three vans missing in New York City, two of which were taken from a company that worked at Ground Zero over a week ago.

The third is a U-Haul that was stolen on August 21 from a Jersey City, New Jersey location.

The theft of the U-Haul was planned with cut lines to phones and surveillance cameras.

This information comes in just days after the White House announced that there is a credible threat from terrorists set for the anniversary of September 11, 2001.
9/11  missing  trucks  newyork 
september 2011 by inboxnews
Obama calling for fuel standards for big vehicles
Fire trucks and concrete mixers, semis, heavy-duty pickups and all trucks in between will, for the first time, have to trim fuel consumption and emissions of heat-trapping gases under new efficiency standards being announced Tuesday by President Barack Obama.

The White House says the standards the president was announcing will save businesses billions of dollars in fuel costs, help reduce oil consumption and cut air pollution. The standards apply to vehicle model years 2014 to 2018.

Senior administration officials said the new targets affect three categories of vehicles.

Big rigs or semis will have to slash fuel consumption and production of heat-trapping gases by up to 23 percent. Gasoline-powered heavy-duty pickups and vans will have to cut consumption by 10 percent, or by 15 percent if the vehicles run on diesel fuel.

The standards also prescribe a 9 percent reduction in fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions for work trucks
obama  fuel  standards  trucks 
august 2011 by inboxnews
DOT chief grilled over Mexican trucks
"When Congress passes a law that says no funds can be used for this program, we mean no funds can be used for this program," he said. "The Department of Transportation cannot simply pick and choose which laws they want to follow and which laws they want t
DOT  chief  grilled  over  Mexican  trucks 
march 2008 by inboxnews
Mexican Gas gangs use custom trucks to steal
Investigators said Jose Guerra, 22, and Octavio Garcia, 27, were charged with siphoning off hundreds of gallons of gasoline from the Mobil station located on Curry Ford Road and Goldenrod in east Orange County.
Mexican  Gas  gangs  use  custom  trucks  to  steal 
october 2007 by inboxnews
Bush officials team with Mexico to defend trucks
Bush administration officials held a news conference with Mexico's transportation secretary yesterday to respond to criticism of a program allowing Mexican trucks on U.S. roads, but critics in Congress who helped pass counter-legislation are unmoved.
Bush  officials  team  with  Mexico  to  defend  trucks 
october 2007 by inboxnews
A load of concern over Mexican trucks
When a big rig carrying explosive chemicals in Mexico blew up several weeks ago and killed more than two dozen, it set off alarms among critics of the Bush administration's program to allow trucks from south of the border to move goods anywhere in the U.S
load  concern  Mexican  trucks  big  rig 
october 2007 by inboxnews

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