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Five drivers for an Iowa trucking company involved in falsifying logbooks were sentenced Tuesday on related misdemeanor charges.

A good Samaritan trucker jumped into a burning wreck to save a fellow truck driver, but quickly vanished before he could be rewarded for his good deed.

DaimlerChrysler Canada has sent out 2,000 layoff notices, telling workers that Friday will be their last shift until Jan. 4.

The Senate began its post-election reorganization Tuesday, reelecting party leaders and assigning lawmakers to committees. As expected, Majority Leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.) was reelected without opposition.

Celadon Group said it is reviewing strategic alternatives after a proposed buyout of the company for $20 a share by a unit of Odyssey Investment Partners was terminated Nov. 30.

A former official at the Federal Highway Administration was sentenced to more than three years in prison for his role in a bribery scandal.

The European Union's Ministers of Transport Committee has accepted a deal that allows EU registered trucks transit rights through Switzerland, but at a high price.

A superior court jury in Mecklenburg, Ohio awarded $2 million to a truck driver injured by falling cargo.

Three months ago, when Ike Evans took over the top leadership post at the nation's largest railroad, Union Pacific was coming off one of the worst years in its proud history.

CSX Transportation Inc. has asked a federal judge to strike down a new Vincennes ordinance regulating train traffic in the southwestern Indiana city.