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The leader of the nation’s largest shippers’ group is calling for a trade-off between the railroad and trucking industries. In exchange for railroad support of heavier big rigs, trucking companies would move more freight on intermodal lines.

Officers of bankrupt NationsWay Transport Service have agreed to sell three of the carrier’s hubs — in Commerce City, Colo.; Harrisburg, Pa.; and Phoenix — to two of the country’s less-than-truckload giants. The facilities are scheduled to be sold on Sept. 7 at federal bankruptcy court in Phoenix.

Shell Oil Co. apologized to truckers for its newest advertising campaign after the industry complained that the ads cast trucking in a negative light.

The battle lines are being drawn for what seems likely to be heated debate this week on improving trucking safety with technology.

East Coast farmers and the truckers they rely on to transport their goods have been hit hard by this season’s blistering heat and record-setting dry spell. After months of endless sunny days, however, desperately needed rains are starting to revitalize parched hopes.

Although global positioning systems in close to 100,000 cars in Japan reportedly shut down as programmers reset the clocks on older GPS satellites, major suppliers of tracking systems for trucks in the U.S. reported no problems.

Oil suppliers say they are ready for the Year 2000, so consumers who fear a shortage associated with the Millennium Bug need not worry nor hoard oil in the days leading up to the turn of the century.

Glenn Brown, president of Contract Freighters Inc., Joplin, Mo., took a shot at the Highway Hauler land speed record at Utah’s salt flats during the 1999 Bonneville National Speed Week.

A Maryland judge ordered a North Carolina furniture dealer and the trucking company that ships its product to collect Maryland sales tax on furniture purchased by the state’s residents.

Taking a page from the U.S. Customs Service, Mexico will use X-ray equipment to examine cargo trucks at an interior checkpoint 16 miles north of its main truck crossing at Nuevo Laredo.