Tracking Large Trucks in Real-Time with License Plate Recognition and Text-Mining Techniques Original Manuscript Submitted: 02.23.2009 .21.2005 ormally Francisco Moraes Oliveira-Neto Ph.D. Student Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering University of Tennessee 223 Perkins Hall Knoxville, TN 37919 Tel: (865) 851-0060 foliveri@utk.edu Manuscript to be considered for the Tennessee Section Institute of Transportation Engineers Student Paper Competition