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Volvo AB has broken off merger talks with the main owner of rival Swedish truck and bus maker Scania.

A proposal for American Trucking Associations to support uniform diesel emissions standards was placed on hold after much debate last week.

Truck sales remained strong through January, topping the previous figure for the month by more than 26% in the Class 8 category and fulfilling the predictions of some manufacturing executives.

Online load-matching rivals DAT Services and Link Logistics will combine their databases to offer customers freight-matching information that covers the U.S. and Canada.

United Parcel Service says its decision to be the first express distribution company to offer customers billing in Europe’s new currency, the euro, is paying off.

Railroad executives for CSX Intermodal and Norfolk Southern Corp. told investors that they see numerous opportunities in the eastern United States to coax freight off the highways.

American Trucking Associations wants to hold policy discussions on bigger, heavier trucks and on railroad competitive access with rail officials.

The Transportation Trades Department of the AFL-CIO adopted a new safety agenda at the winter meeting of the labor federation’s Executive Board.

TT PhotoCharles Jeffress (pictured) went where no Occupational Safety and Health administrator had gone before last week, speaking at the American Trucking Associations’ Winter Leadership Meeting and encouraging the organization to join him as he sought new frontiers of cooperation.

OSHA Administrator Charles Jeffress gave a sneak preview of the latest draft on ergonomics rules to the board of directors of ATA.