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Ocean shipping — the last of the great governmentally controlled modes of transportation — took a mighty hit from the deregulation ax.

Government regulators are now circulating among lawmakers a draft proposal to clean up the nation’s Commercial Driver License program.

With about three weeks remaining before the expiration of a national labor contract, motor vehicle transporters want to do more than simply avoid a strike. They want an agreement with the Teamsters union that will reverse a long-term decline in the unionized carhaul industry.

Trucker Buddy Inc., the organization that was founded in 1993 to set up pen-pal relationships between professional truck drivers and children, has fired its president and management firm.

Transport Corp. of America, Eagan, Minn., purchased Robert Hansen Trucking of Delavan, Wis., effective April 30.

After repeatedly being rebuffed in attempts to take over rival Swedish truck maker Scania AB, Volvo tried a different approach last week, proposing to work with its competitor.

The national average price for diesel fuel remained the same last week, leading analysts to cautiously forecast an end to the volatile swings of the previous months.

The U.S. Justice Department has urged the federal judge who is reviewing the proposed settlement between the six companies that make most of the truck diesel engines sold in the United States to ignore claims that they were wronged.

A panel of speakers at the American Trucking Associations Foundation’s annual meeting in Florida last week used lots of different ways to say it, but they had a single primary message for the trucking industry: work with federal regulators to craft programs and policy, or pay the consequences.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration would prefer to automate your job and as a result eliminate tens of thousands of American jobs rather than admit its proposed ergonomic rule is built on unsound science. OSHA even refuses to acknowledge that the very experts on this issue — physicians — don’t see eye to eye on the causes and cures of so-called ergonomic ailments (often called repetitive stress injuries) and that physicians actually find a rule on ergonomics extremely controversial.