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Neal Kedzie will become president of the Wisconsin Motor Carriers Association as of July 1, the trucking organization announced. He will succeed Tom Howells, who is retiring.

Engineers at Battelle Memorial Institute are building an online database that will inform fleet managers about the corrosiveness of liquid chemicals on stainless steel tank trailers.

The writer of the letter headlined “Carriers’ Dilemma” in the April 21 Letters to the Editor section (p. 8) risked appearing naïve, but I would echo his sentiments about who unloads a truck and who pays for it, and raise a related concern: Why does the truck delivering a sealed load have to wait while the pallets are broken down and the individual items that constitute the load are checked in?

Three truckload carriers recently won awards for helping drivers battle the widespread occurrence of obesity, diabetes and respiratory problems — even as a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention emphasized the poor state of health for most longhaul truck drivers.

The propane industry has asked the federal government for a waiver of hours-of-service rules for truck drivers in the Midwest and northeastern United States who are hauling the gas.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Officials with the Truckload Carriers Association said they are evaluating how to address potential federal government changes to insurance limits, the issue of driver coercion and expanding the interstate driver corps to include 18-to-21 year olds.

Four of the largest publicly traded truckload carriers in North America posted higher earnings in the final three months of 2012, despite higher fuel prices and an uncertain economic environment.