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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.

Trucker Buddy Inc., the organization that was founded in 1993 to set up pen-pal relationships between professional truck drivers and children, has fired its president and management firm.

A complete structural makeover was approved for the National Private Truck Council at its annual convention, which attracted about 1,200 private fleet operators and suppliers.

Threatened work stoppages over the weekend of May 1 failed to materialize at the Elba, Ala., plant of Dorsey Trailers, and work proceeded this week under a negotiated agreement that was ratified on May 3.

Regional less-than-truckload carrier Central Freight Lines of Waco, Texas, filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to sell 5 million shares of stock to the public.

The federal proposal for new driver hours of service could be ready for public review by July if the Department of Transportation chooses to go directly to rulemaking, according to top trucking officials of the Federal Highway Administration.

Trism Inc., Kennesaw, Ga., has engaged BT Alex. Brown to review strategic alternatives to improve its capital structure.

TT File PhotoA bill introduced by Sens. Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) would limit the authority of states to toll Interstate highways to pay for building or repairing bridges and tunnels on them, a power granted in the 1998 highway spending bill.

A rule requiring trailers made before 1993 to be retrofitted with reflective tape or paint is being challenged by the National Tank Truck Carriers.

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