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G.I. Continues Midwest Expansion; After Three Months, Comair Flies Again; Officials Investigate Two Calif. Trucking Cos.; Swift, M.S. Carriers Complete Merger; and more...

Transportation industry experts said that the U.S. economic slowdown likely took a bite out of the profits of many trucking and railroad companies in the second quarter ended Friday.

The average price of diesel fuel across the United States fell another 4 cents per gallon last week, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. This was the fifth consecutive week the price has dropped.

In 1993, United States officials signed the North American Free Trade Agreement, in which they committed the nation to a series of actions to encourage the movement of goods and services between the continent’s three primary tenants. br clear=all.

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The Federal Reserve's interest-rate cutting campaign appears to be slowly helping the U.S. economy and the manufacturing sector, two reports released on Friday showed.

A number of freight transportation companies with strong commercial Web sites, led by trucking giant Yellow Corp., were ranked among the nation’s top 100 e-businesses by a widely circulated technology magazine.

Trucks driving on Interstate 95 in Maine would be exempt from federal weight limits for three years under a bill introduced in Congress. he bill, sponsored by Rep. John Baldacci (D-Maine), would do away with the 80,000-pound weight limit for trucks on that highway for a three-year period.

Dimitrios Dardalis thinks he has a design that will enable producers to wring greater fuel efficiency from diesel engines while greatly reducing overhaul requirements. ardalis, a mechanical engineering doctoral candidate at the University of Texas at Austin, patented a wear-reducing concept that involves the use of rotating cylinder bore liners to reduce boundary friction during the combustion cycle.

Hoffa, Leedham Nominated for Teamsters President; Oshkosh Acquires Geesink Norba for $127.5 Million; Airborne, DHL Reportedly in Talks; FedEx Express to Trim Jobs Through Attrition; and more...