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The federal government recognizes that it takes more than good vision to make a good truck driver.

The Surface Transportation Board issued new rules to make it easier for captive rail shippers to obtain alternative rail service to alleviate “inadequacies.”

Holland’s TNT Post Group paid $360 million to acquire the French express delivery company Jet Services, giving the Dutch giant a greater presence in France.

In a move that represents a significant loosening of its vertically integrated structure, Volvo Truck Corp. has decided to outsource its heavy-duty rear axles to U.S.-based Meritor Inc.

The Environmental Protection Agency flatly denied claims by the nation’s largest diesel engine manufacturers that they had warned the agency in 1994 that its pollution tests were flawed and didn’t properly measure engine emissions.

This is the full text of a letter from the Environmental Protection Agency to Transport Topics.

Did Dec. 22 come and go with a splash? It was the deadline for compliance with federal laws on underground fuel storage tanks.

The Surface Transportation Board extended for one year the authority of motor carrier rate bureaus to set rates and the National Classification Committee to establish commodity classes for freight moving by truck.

Striking ANR Advance Transportation employees put down their picket signs last week as hope faded for one of the nation’s most enduring trucking companies.

Trucking lobbyists last week endorsed a proposal by House Transportation Committee Chairman Bud Shuster (R-Pa.) to merge jurisdiction over railroads and trucking into a single subcommittee. The unexpected announcement came as House members focused on the vote to impeach President Clinton.