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Ryder System named Gregory T. Swienton, a former executive of Burlington Northern Santa Fe, to be president and chief operating officer of the Miami-based transportation management company.

Undercover police in Miami stopped an alleged truck hijacking by killing a suspect and arresting two men believed to be his accomplices.

Figures on logistics costs, widely followed by transportation professionals and trucking analysts on Wall Street, turn out to be wrong because of a missing factor in the formula, acknowledges the author of those numbers.

Fifty-five NationsWay Transport Service employees, laid off by the carrier's bankruptcy closure, have sued the company's management to recover lost wages other reimbursements they claim are owed to them.

Ohio state police arrested two testing examiners and a third suspect in Columbus for selling commercial driver licenses.

Central Freight Lines, Waco, Texas, has agreed to acquire the business and assets of Jaguar Fast Freight of Phoenix in a stock transaction. Jaguar operates as an intrastate less-than-truckload carrier in Arizona and is an agent for Central.

Haulers of agricultural products gathering for their annual conference will be focused on the same issue consuming the rest of the industry -- the fate of the hours-of-service regulations.

Hours of service takes on a whole new meaning to people like Rodger Blanco and Rodney Garrison. Blanco is the owner of Ag-Mart Produce and Garrison is his maintenance and transportation supervisor. Long hours are the rule, not the exception, for both men and their equipment, said Garrison.

Twelve passengers injured in the deadly collision of an Amtrak train and a truck at a rural crossing in March are suing the driver, his trucking company and the Illinois Central Railroad.

Truckers could face some long lines at the pumps at the millennium. A government report says the oil industry has too many question marks about possible Y2K computer glitches. But an industry spokesman said the biggest concern is that customers will trigger a fuel shortage by making a run on the pumps.