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Hobbs Group, an Atlanta-based insurance brokerage firm, has started a specialty transportation division headed by Alan M. Shetzer to provide insurance and loss-control services for large trucking companies.

The "Show the ATA Value" tour makes a turn toward its home turf for the summer leadership meeting, calling on a bevy of government leaders and transportation journalists to address participants.

Allison Transmission expects its new plant in Indianapolis to reach full production speed this fall, but it will not be enough to meet the growing demand for automatic truck transmissions.

Trucking companies risk being drowned by the flood of technologies and logistics services coming onto the market. And judging by the number of exhibitors at last week's conference of the Information Technology and Logistics Council, trucking may risk being overwhelmed by vendors.

Jim Belter, who started as a programmer with Werner Enterprises 12 years ago, was named the first Technology Professional of the Year by the American Trucking Associations Information Technology and Logistics Council and Transport Technology Today magazine.

The national average for retail diesel fuel prices fell for the fourth straight week, reaching $1.059 a gallon on June 7, down from $1.065 the week before.

An official report recommending against a negotiated rulemaking to reform driver hours of service was quietly published by the Federal Highway Administration Thursday.

Trism Inc., Kennesaw, Ga., said it will not make a $4.6 million interest payment due June 15 on its 10.75% senior subordinated debt due Dec. 15, 2000.

HDA Parts System of Deerfield, Ill., and Quality Distribution Service Partners of Itasca, Ill., each of whom were attempting to put together national networks of aftermarket truck parts distributors, agreed to form a new company called FleetPride.

U.S. railroads are girding themselves for a fight over a possible mandate that they install reflective markings on more than 1.7 million rail cars at a cost of more than $400 million.