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Transport Corp. of America, Eagan, Minn., purchased Robert Hansen Trucking of Delavan, Wis., effective April 30.

First Freight Systems, Minneapolis, announced the acquisition of Chris Cartage of Eagan, Minn.

The National Transportation Safety Board called on truckers to look to the skies for a way to improve safety and repeated demands that trucks be required to install black boxes similar to those used on airplanes.

The Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency brushed aside claims that the six primary U.S. diesel engine makers did not knowingly violate federal air quality rules, and urged a judge to ratify the agreement, which will cost the manufacturers more than $1 billion in fines and added costs.

The latest round in the congressional debate over truck size and weight formally opened with the introduction of legislation May 4 that would allow states to increase the maximum truck weight to 97,000 pounds.

The new, stern attitude toward trucking safety should not destroy the close ties that the industry and government have developed over the past four years, according to the top man at the Federal Highway Administration.

A Department of Defense plan to pay freight bills through a third-party electronic payment system is caught in a whirlpool of praise and criticism.

A Department of Transportation administrative law judge has told the Federal Highway Administration to vacate an out-of-service order it issued on the grounds that the agency had not demonstrated any “imminent hazard” in the case.

Ocean shipping — the last of the great governmentally controlled modes of transportation — took a mighty hit from the deregulation ax.

Government regulators are now circulating among lawmakers a draft proposal to clean up the nation’s Commercial Driver License program.