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Crouse Cartage Co. announced plans to eliminate its freight terminal and maintenance operations in Carroll, Iowa, and close an agency terminal in Fremont, Neb. Crouse is a subsidiary of TransFinancial Holdings.

Commerical Movers Inc. of Columbus, Ohio, has acquired Shaw/Kilgore Office Systems and will merge the business into a new division called CMI Installations.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently recommended a nationwide smoke testing standard to avoid confusion among truck drivers traveling from state to state.

Transit Group has acquired KAT Inc. of Chesterton, Ind., for $725,000 in cash and 812,000 shares of Transit Group common stock.

General Parcel Service has merged with Bank Air Courier of Columbia, S.C., and Anderson Armored Car/Courier Division in Anderson, S.C., and has adopted a new name — Momentum Logistics.

TT File PhotoRising prices at the pump have soured Arkansas truckers on any compromise to raise fuel prices to pay for better roads. Truckers won't go along with the latest version, which imposes a 2-cent-a-gallon diesel tax increase immediately and adds 2 cents more in a year.

The truck driver involved in last week's deadly Amtrak accident will be getting his license back. "There is no basis in state law which allows me to hold the license," Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White said Thursday in a statement.

More than 1,000 companies will exhibit their wares over 1 million feet of space as the annual Mid-America Trucking Show gets under way at Kentucky Fair & Exposition Center in Louisville, Ky.

Renault Chairman Louis Schweitzer arrived in Japan Thursday to sign a deal with Nissan that includes his company taking a 35 percent stake in the ailing Japanese carmaker, reports said.

Atlantic Richfield Co. is testing a new diesel fuel that could reduce air pollutants that spew from cars, trucks and buses.