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The Latest Headlines:

• Ontario Customs Officers Stage Brief Walkout at Border
• Iteris Equips Five Fleets with Lane-Warning Systems
• Indiana May Reroute Trucks in Part of State

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Ontario Customs Officers Stage Brief Walkout at Border

Most of the Canada Customs officers at the Blue Water Bridge border crossing in Ontario walked off the job for several hours Tuesday in a long-running labor dispute over their safety and inability to carry weapons, the Associated Press reported.

The walkout took place the same day the Customs Excise Union released a study saying customs officers need to carry guns because of the dangerous situations and injuries they face, AP said.

spokesman for the Canadian Border Services Agency said commercial traffic from Port Huron, Mich., to Point Edward, Ontario, was delayed as supervisors and managers took over for the officers, AP reported.

Trucks entering Canada faced a 1-hour backup and cars had to wait 10 minutes, AP said. Transport Topics

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Iteris Equips Five Fleets with Lane-Warning Systems

Safety technology provider Iteris Inc. said its Lane Departure Warning technology will be installed on new trucks purchased by five U.S. commercial truck fleets.

Two of the five fleets will also be retrofitting existing trucks in their fleets with LDW, the company said in a statement.

These five fleets have more than 1,100 trucks between them, increasing the total number of fleets with Iteris' LDW systems to 24, with an estimated combined fleet size of 10,300 trucks, it said.

Another 47 fleets with an estimated combined fleet size of over 100,000 trucks are currently testing the system, Iteris said. Transport Topics

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Indiana May Reroute Trucks in Part of State

Indiana transportation officials are looking to reroute part of U.S. 20 in the northeast part of the state Indiana to divert truck traffic away from the city, the Associated Press reported.

Officials have proposed rerouting part of U.S. 20 to the Indiana Toll Road and relinquishing the existing U.S. 20 from Interstate 69 to Ohio, making it a local road for about 10 miles that would be regulated and maintained by local counties, AP said.

he road would then be designated a business route, only allowing local truck traffic, Indiana Department of Transportation and Indiana Toll Road officials told AP.

If approved, the proposal also would negate a feared increase of truck traffic on U.S. 20 caused by next year’s rate hike on the toll road, and truck would only be allowed to use U.S. 20 between Ohio and I-69 for local deliveries, AP reported. Transport Topics

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