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Strike-bound ANR Advance Transportation Co. has told its 2,000 employees to expect mass layoffs in two months.

Pacer International expanded its intermodal and freight brokerage operations with the acquisition of Manufacturers Consolidation Service of Memphis.

Penske Truck Leasing acquired the truck rental and leasing assets of Rent-A-Car Co., Richmond, Va. The purchase includes about 500 tractors, trailers and trucks based in Richmond, Harrisonburg, Lynchburg and Warrenton, Va.

Consolidated Delivery & Logistics bolstered its Midwest operations with the acquisition of First Choice Courier and Bozzay Delivery.

Trucking companies did some shopping, maintaining the high sales numbers for trucks through November.

Federal Express and leaders of its pilots union say they may well have a tentative work contract in place by Christmas.

Trucking interests forced the Arizona Department of Transportation to think twice about building a proposed Hoover Dam bypass as a toll route.

A truck driver has confessed to shooting another driver after a confrontation at a truckstop along Interstate 40, near Amarillo, Texas.

The cast and crew on tour with "The Phantom of the Opera" got a scare when a tractor-trailer carrying $800,000 in props and scenery mysteriously vanished from a parking lot.