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May 10, 2007

TRUCKS' PURCHASE PROSPECTS

* USA - Railroad Offers to Buy Trucks for Cargo
Los Angeles,CAL,USA -The Houston Chronicle (Houston,TX), by ALEX VEIGA -May 8, 2007: -- Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. said Tuesday it would invest more than $75 million to buy cleaner-burning trucks for hauling cargo containers from the nation's largest port complex to a proposed rail transfer hub... The Fort Worth, Texas-based railroad operator has been trying to generate community support in favor of building the facility, dubbed the Southern California International Gateway... Some residents have raised concerns over the potential for pollution and noise from truck traffic moving between the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and the proposed facility, north of Terminal Island and about four miles from the adjacent ports... To help ease those concerns, the company said it was prepared to purchase a fleet of new trucks to reduce fuel emissions. The trucks would be limited to travel on nonresidential routes, the company said...

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