People drive cars and trucks and motor homes, and there are plenty of roads to accommodate them.

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About 400 to 500 Taliban militants were seen streaming into the Arghandab district of the Kandahar province late Sunday night on motor bikes and pickup trucks, said Haji Aka Jan, a tribal elder in the district.

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Teleflex had a patent for a gas pedal that moves via electronic sensor according to a driver's height, which Ford Motor was using on some of its trucks.

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Also seeing gains for trucks, Chau holds Qingling Motors, which manufactures light trucks in western China with Isuzu Motor.

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It made motor parts, axles and cam shafts for cars and trucks.

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For example, using data on searches for trucks and SUVs to predict the monthly sales of motor vehicles reduces the average error by up to 18% compared with the predictions from a model that did not incorporate the search data.

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The list of winners includes some big global brand names, such as Sweden's Volvo , which makes heavy trucks--Volvo's auto business was sold to Ford Motor (nyse: F - news - people ) in 1999--and gained 68%.

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Teleflex (nyse: TFX - news - people ) had a patent for a gas pedal that moves via electronic sensor according to a driver's height, which Ford Motor (nyse: F - news - people ) was using on some of its trucks.

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