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January 26, 2009
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Top of the News
Caterpillar to cut 20K from workforce
By Justin Carretta, online news editor
Caterpillar Inc. will reduce its workforce by approximately 20,000 employees, the company said, as it announced a 32% decline in profit for the fourth quarter of 2008 compared to the fourth quarter of 2007.




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Upcoming Events
Navistar head to speak at MATS breakfast
The Heavy Duty Manufacturers Association (HDMA) has announced that Daniel C. Ustian, chairman, president & CEO of Navistar International Corp., will be the keynote speaker of the 19th Annual Breakfast & Briefing at the Mid-America Trucking Show (MATS) on Friday, March 20, 2009.




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Awards
Fleet Owner receives two Neal Award noms
Fleet Owner has been nominated for two Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Awards.

Websites
Penske launches MyFleetatPenske
Penske Truck Leasing customers now have an array of Internet tools available to them with the launch of MyFleetatPenske.com.

Services
Fleet Owner heads to Facebook
Fleet Owner is now on Facebook, allowing users to see all the news, blogs, videos and more that are on fleetowner.com in addition to photos from our Flickr page and updates from the staff.

Editors' Blogs
Between the Lines: Such smiling faces!
By David Cullen, executive editor
It warmed the cockles of me heart to see the smiling faces of President Obama, the Democratic leaders of the House AND the House minority leader, too, all in a row accompanying this front-page story posted by The New York Times online.

Trucks at Work: It ain't pretty
By Sean Kilcarr, senior editor
I think we all know it’s far from a pretty economic picture out there. The question one asks and tries to answer, though, is how trucking is faring. Not good, of course – for either truckers themselves or the OEMs that serve this market – but folks are finding a way to survive.

Trucking Around the World
DHL launches freight service between Europe and Middle East
Customers of DHL Freight, the overland transport business of Deutsche Post World Net, can now take advantage of DHL’s improved high performance road transport services between Europe and the Middle East including: the GCC, Levant and Egypt....

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