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Volvo AB has broken off merger talks with the main owner of rival Swedish truck and bus maker Scania.

Truck sales remained strong through January, topping the previous figure for the month by more than 26% in the Class 8 category and fulfilling the predictions of some manufacturing executives.

Online load-matching rivals DAT Services and Link Logistics will combine their databases to offer customers freight-matching information that covers the U.S. and Canada.

United Parcel Service says its decision to be the first express distribution company to offer customers billing in Europe’s new currency, the euro, is paying off.

Railroad executives for CSX Intermodal and Norfolk Southern Corp. told investors that they see numerous opportunities in the eastern United States to coax freight off the highways.

Danzas shareholders approved the $1.1 billion sale of their company to the German post office, Deutsche Post, creating one of the world’s largest freight transportation groups.

FDX Corp., the parent of Federal Express, spent $90 million preparing for a pilots strike that never occurred, company officials said.

The planned conversion of a Kansas City airport to an international freight center has cleared a major hurdle with City Council approval of leases for Kansas City Southern Railway.

The board of directors of American Trucking Associations last week approved a $54.4 million budget for 1999 that includes a $2.9 million operating deficit to help pay for a 25% reduction in dues.