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Considering the treatment that a budding chief information officer once might have gotten on the playground from a budding truck driver, it is no small thing in 2010 to hear that the successful trucking company desperately needs both of these people to move the freight and make a profit.

Rand McNally took a minority ownership stake in DriverTech LLC, positioning the Skokie, Ill., map maker to compete directly with other mobile communications providers.

McLeod Software has acquired Enterprise Information Solutions Inc., a software firm specializing in the less-than-truckload market, the companies jointly announced.

Used-truck dealers, facing a dearth of late-model, low-mileage vehicles after large fleets drained the market earlier this year, shopped aggressively in August, pushing sales up 55% from year-ago levels, according to industry sources.

Following recent rate increase announcements by three major less-than-truckload carriers, industry experts said the LTL sector has turned the corner toward profitability, with shipment volumes, tonnage and rates all improving, but not yet soaring.

Two bills introduced in the House shortly before Congress adjourned for the midterm elections would raise the federal diesel tax to pay for improved infrastructure or help boost new truck equipment purchases.

Most fleets are continuing to steer away from raising driver pay this year, but about 80% of carriers expect they will have to take that step when the pace of the U.S. economic recovery accelerates, according to a new survey.

For the first time in 37 years, federal regulators are proposing tougher standards for truck tire performance, including new speed tests.

United Auto Workers members continue to make trucks and engines for Navistar Inc. even though their old contract expired Oct. 1, both parties said, adding that they are still in active negotiations.

American Trucking Associations has filed court papers backing the state of Alabama in a U.S. Supreme Court case that could determine whether states can charge railroads sales tax on fuel purchases but exempt truckers.