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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.

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

Aasche Transportation Services continued to add to its waste hauling business by acquiring assets of JR Investments related to solid waste transport services in Northwest Indiana.

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.