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A candidates debate designed to increase interest in the upcoming Teamsters election fell apart Friday after the second of three candidates pulled out.

The Council of Logistics Management honored several distinguished members during its annual convention.

A state court on Friday confirmed two legal challenges aimed at blocking the merger of the German industrial group Daimler-Benz and the U.S. automaker Chrysler Corp.

Landstar System has dropped its membership in American Trucking Associations, becoming the first major company to leave the trade association since the launching of the sweeping restructuring of ATA.

The Council of Logistics Management elected Kathleen Strange as its president for the 1999 term during its annual conference, held at the Anaheim Convention Center, Oct. 11-14.

Congress agreed to a $500 billion budget package Thursday that includes Department of Transportation and highway funding for fiscal 1999, but left at least one key trucking issue unresolved: Will the Office of Motor Carriers get a new home.

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is suing a trucking company to recover the $2.7 million damage caused to a section of Interstate 95 by a gasoline tanker crash.