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The Latest Headlines:

• Canadian Truckers Must Declare Lunch Items
• N.J. to Build Fence to Protect Rail Cars
• States Plan Holiday-Season DUI Crackdown

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Canadian Truckers Must Declare Lunch Items

Lunch bags are now on the list of items that truckers must declare at the U.S. border, the Canadian Press reported.

If truckers who regularly travel across the border do not precisely declare the contents within their lunch bag, they may be looking at hefty fines, CP said.

Some drivers say they have been fined, detained and threatened with confiscation of their U.S.-issued identity cards for trying to enter the United States with undeclared food, the news service said.

A member of the Ontario Trucking Association says the lunch-bag crackdown is another addition to close to 10 new U.S. security measures aimed at stopping terrorists, smuggling and threats to the food supply, CP said. Transport Topics

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N.J. to Build Fence to Protect Rail Cars

New Jersey plans to build a 10-foot high security fence along a 2.6-mile stretch of the New Jersey Turnpike to help prevent terrorist attacks on freight trains that carry ammonia, chlorine and other toxic chemicals, Bloomberg reported.

The $6 million project also will include closed-circuit television and motion sensors to monitor the 90-ton rail cars that stop near the turnpike section known as “Chemical Alley,” state officials said.

Though the cars are empty when they sit idle next to the northbound lanes of the Turnpike, their presence has raised concerns from the public and must be addressed, Bloomberg reported.

Mass transit bombings in Madrid and London have highlighted the need for the security measures, officials said. Transport Topics

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States Plan Holiday-Season DUI Crackdown

As millions of Americans prepare to drive over the holiday season, law enforcement officials are planning a nationwide crackdown, “Drunk Driving. Over the Limit. Under Arrest.”

Groups ranging from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the International Association of Chiefs of Police to Mothers Against Drunk Driving said that more than 500 people could be killed nationwide this holiday season from drunk driving.

An enforcement crackdown, including sobriety checkpoints, saturation patrols and a national advertising blitz was announced at a news conference Tuesday in Sacramento, Calif. Transport Topics

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