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Two state senators, reacting to last week's fatal train-truck accident, say they plan to introduce legislation that could free at least $50 million to improve safety at railroad crossings around Illinois.

A number of companies that provide electronic dispatching and trailer-tracking services have adopted a single communication standard that they said combines both systems into a single interface.

Federal investigators are looking into another train derailment just miles from the site of last week's deadly Amtrak collision.

The next time you see a Farm Fresh dairy semi-tractor tooling down the highway, notice how clean and shiny it looks.

James P. Hoffa was sworn in March 22 as general president of the Teamsters union. He took the oath of office at the union’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., after a federal judge on Friday upheld his election over protests.

Three witnesses to the deadly Amtrak crash have given possibly conflicting statements about when warning signals and crossing gates activated at the crossing, a federal official said Monday.

Responding to last week’s collision between an Amtrak passenger train and a tractor trailer, the Senate Surface Transportation Subcommittee will hold a hearing March 25 on grade crossing safety.

Lack of votes for a plan to impose an immediate 4-cent-a-gallon increase on diesel fuel prompted its sponsor to start talking compromise with supporters of another plan to phase in the higher taxes.

The president of American Trucking Associations was trying to sell his vision for integration with The Maintenance Council at its annual conference.