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Is another big-time merger among less-than-truckload carriers in the offing?

TT File PhotoAmerican Trucking Associations commemorated the third anniversary of the scheduled implementation of the trucking provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement by urging President Clinton to completely open four Southwestern states to Mexican trucks.

Evidence mounted that the Environmental Protection Agency knew long before it lowered the boom on diesel engine makers that their engines had pollution problems and that EPA’s own certification test was so poorly designed it failed to detect illegal emissions levels.

The Environmental Protection Agency apparently believes it isn’t accountable, at least not to TT, our many readers, the trucking industry at large or the American public.

Federal Express Corp. and the Fedex Pilots Association reached a tentative agreement on their first-ever contract.

Record low fuel costs may sound like a boon for trucking, but some carrier executives say diesel prices have been met by demands from shippers for reduced freight charges.

The Department of Transportation is responding to criticism from safety groups that the Federal Highway Administration is not adequately handling truck safety.

Captive rail shippers pleaded with the Surface Transportation Board last week to “restore and enhance” competition in the Houston and Gulf Coast areas by granting other railroads access to Union Pacific lines.

Congress is expected to try again next year to update the nation’s postal laws, but any changes will likely be far from the privatization efforts that have taken hold in Europe.