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The new chairman of the Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee is a former governor who supported giving responsibility for the federal highway program to the states.

Transport Topics Editor Howard S. Abramson and national affairs correspondent David Barnes recently interviewed Edward Hamberger, president of the Association of American Railroads.

The ball is now in American Trucking Associations’ court. That’s the word from the 13 state trucking association executives that met in Dallas Jan. 30.

Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee faces an uphill struggle to pass his interstate highway improvement plan in the House without some help to speed up improvements on other roads.

Ohio transportation officials will spend $4.3 billion on road construction and repair over the next two years under a proposed budget Gov. Bob Taft released Tuesday.

Skyway Freight Systems has created two new business units, Charles Lounsberry, Skyway’s chief executive officer, announced.

Cadec Corp., formerly part of the Cummins Engine Co., announced it has become an employee-owned company.

Union Pacific Railroad and Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Co. will coordinate their dispatch operations covering Southern California, Kansas City and the Powder River Basin in Wyoming.

The Oregon Trucking Associations thinks the 1999 session of the state legislature offers its best chance in years to win repeal of Oregon’s weight-distance tax.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Senate Transportation Chairman Evan Frasure wants to lower the state gas tax by up to four cents, which would reduce the Department of Transportation's budget by as much as $32 million at a time when the state remains pressed to meet backlogged highway needs.