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1. N.J. Weights and Measures curbs three fuel delivery trucks for misleading dispensing readings
(N.J./State)

The state Office of Weights and Measures Wednesday conducted unannounced inspections of home heating oil delivery trucks near two fueling depots, and placed three out of service because of violations found ...

2. Food Trends: Fried beer, Jamie Oliver and Lady Gaga
(Life/Style)

... — Food Truck Revolution is burgeoning from mobile trucks to the launching of stationary Bustaurants (No. 15). Food trucks have grown into mobile restaurants with long lines and fanatic followers who find ...

3. Abandoned by New Jersey during a state of emergency
(Opinion/Commentary)

... but most didn't. They apparently didn't want to be the one to drive first even though their vehicles were SUVs and trucks and mine was just a small car. All I knew is that there was no way I was going ...

4. Cory Booker Twitters Newark out of snow emergency
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... at about 2 a.m., Booker tweeted, " Heading in for night. Plows & Salt trucks will work through the night & into morning. Still much work to do but I'm grateful 4 the progress." The mayor was ...

5. Snow totals: N.J. digging out from blizzard
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... with their trucks waiting for the wind to stop. The side streets are clear, but one you get on (Long Beach) boulevard you're still not going anywhere." The Weather Service is maintaining a wind advisory ...

6. NJDOT expanding roadway congestion patrols to seven days a week
(N.J./State)

... trucks and crews will now operate along 225 center-lane miles of New Jersey's core commuter and high traffic-volume roadways. The patrols are an attempt to improve roadway safety and help prevent or ...

7. State consumer affairs sting uncovers 34 unlicensed movers
(N.J./State)

... the trucks for mechanical defects. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, which regulates interstate movers, also checked records. An additional 15 movers were cited for unlicensed operation ...

8. Tunnel Trouble
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... high-volume lighter service from Manhattan for the first time in years. And Fast: by 2013. This will get a large number of trucks off the Hudson crossings and save considerable man hours, and do it quite ...

9. Port of Camden gets federal funding designed to reduce pollution
(N.J./State)

... engines, identified as a major contributor to poor air quality in many urban areas. In some locations, that simply means preventing trucks from idling for long periods, or moving their loading zones away ...

10. New Jersey's celebration of its own cranberries
(Life/Style)

... in chest-high waders, guide the crop through a golden mass of scarlet fruit to an elevator and then on to trucks on one of those picture perfect clear sunny autumn days. And then there are the makeshift ...

11. Longshoremen continue wildcat strikes at New York/New Jersey ports
(N.J./State)

... of the International Longshoremen's Association refused to load and unload fruit and vegetables on ships and trucks in Port Newark and other sites to protest the moves by Fresh Del Monte Produce. The ...

12. Designing the future at GM and Chrysler
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... While his hand is in all of Chrysler's cars and trucks, his wheel of choice is a black on black, 640-horsepower, 200 mile per hour, Dodge Viper. And they are artists with different missions and starting ...

13. N.J. awards shares of $3.25 million for employee literacy and job training
(N.J./State)

... turn signal switches, lighting fixtures for class 8 trucks and some parts for golf carts, received $40,097. VSM will contribute an additional $40,097 to train all 50 of their employees in ISO Quality Systems, ...

14. Rutgers scientist says extreme heat, weather just a glimpse of the future
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... to global warming. Meanwhile, the Obama Administration is reviewing potential new fuel economy and emissions standards for cars and trucks – an initial round had the backing of the auto industry, but a ...

15. Camden waterfront development to get sand dredged from Delaware River
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... area owned by the DEP. A Camden Redevelopment Agency contractor will use the access road as it moves de-watered dredged materials to Camden. The DEP plans to move about 200 trucks of dredged material ...

16. Tripping
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... for the highway, I drive it every day. I do have to be more careful because other drivers do not always see me if I'm in their blind spot. However, I don't experience the wind from trucks like I do in ...

17. Increased Postal Rates
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... town carriers went back to walking like they use to instead of driving trucks everywhere. Yes they would still have to use a truck to deliver packages but that is a only a few compared to a truck on ...

18. Safety and Pumping articles
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... how to drive. thats why there are SUV. so they can go out there and be careless. I have driven Race Cars and MACK trucks and nothing compares to the safety of this vehicle. Get your facts and DRIVE A ...

19. Why the unemployed will stay unemployed
(Opinion/Commentary)

... act more as sales brokers than retailers. Walmart has little in warehouse costs because they practice cross-docking where a carefully orchestrated fleet of trucks with vendor merchandise show up at an ...

20. N.J. serial rapist Nealson Connell sentenced to prison
(N.J./State)

... grabbed one victim, who was on her way to a movie theater, dragged her into a truck yard and hidden between two trucks, he began punching her about the face numerous times before sexually assaulting the ...