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Representatives from four ports have urged Congress to allot funds to help deepen and modify their facilities.

Detroit Diesel Corp. announced fourth quarter 1998 revenues of $563 million and record fourth quarter earnings of $10.3 million.

Bartlett Lifting Devices, a Chicago-based company, will become a division of Kalmar Industries USA, Ottawa, Kan., Kalmar announced last month.

Union Pacific Railroad has agreed to double its stake in a Mexican Railroad.

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) — The House was in no mood Wednesday to cut taxes.

Eaton Corp. wanted a leadership role in industrial hydraulics and got it Monday with an agreement to buy Aeroquip-Vickers Inc. for about $1.7 billion.

The trucking industry should trade government-sought safety enhancements for the right to increase productivity, James Hebe, chief executive officer of Freightliner Corp. said Tuesday.

A report to the Kansas House Appropriations Committee at the end of January said that the idea of a tax increase for transportation met acceptance with everyone who spoke at 12 town hall meetings.

A 22-year-old Waianae man was arrested after trucks at a Honolulu rental company were torched for the second time.

South Dakota should scrap the sales tax on in-state trucking, the House Taxation Committee decided Tuesday.