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United Parcel Service must create 2,000 new full-time jobs under a contract negotiated in 1997, even though its domestic package business declined following a strike by the Teamsters union, an arbitrator ruled.

Large trucking operations hauling hazardous materials will see their federal registration fees increase 660% beginning May 1 under new rules issued last week by the Research and Special Programs Administration.

Swift Transportation said it has agreed to purchase a 49% stake in Trans-Mex Inc., a truckload carrier based in Mexico.

A controversial automated freight payment system initiated last year by the Department of Defense will be the subject of a meeting March 1 between top military transportation officers and American Trucking Associations.

Intrastate carriers got some relief with the latest interpretation of applying federal hours-of-service rules whenever their drivers cross state lines.

A decision on rate-making handed down by the Surface Transportation Board has met with approval from shippers but has truckers protesting.

A Tennessee businessman has purchased the trucking fleet of Idahoan Foods in Lewisville, Idaho, and formed a new company, called Golden Valley Transportation, to provide nationwide truckload service.

As dedicated as the people who make up the nation’s trucking industry are to their professional responsibilities, asking them to transport the national economy for free — or to pay out of their own pockets to haul it — is going more than a bit too far.

America is riding the crest of an eight-year economic boom. Trucking companies are busy delivering more freight than ever. So why are trucking companies suffering? Don’t kid yourself. We are weaker and more fragmented today than ever.

PNV Inc., whose cable TV and phone hookups are popping up in parking lots, is now offering Internet kiosks inside truck stops.