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Living up to its title, Ontario Trucking Association’s “Truck World 2000” displayed the big picture of trucking, made room for aspects on the fringes that have nothing to do with moving freight, and wrapped up with what may have been one of Canadian trucking’s social events of the year (having something to with a wedding cake and rice).

TransFinancial Holdings shut down its money-losing Crouse Cartage Co. subsidiary Sept. 16 after giving up on efforts to stem a rising tide of red ink at the 59-year-old Midwest-based trucking company.

A United States senator and an official of a diesel engine manufacturer proposed to put the brakes on a environmental rulemaking that would reduce the level of sulfur in diesel fuel by 97% as of June 1, 2006.

Southern California air quality regulators have backed down from a plan to require ultra-low sulfur diesel two years ahead of the schedule set by another state agency and the federal government.

After having future financing cut off by both its parent companies, Orbcomm Global and seven of its subsidiaries filed for bankruptcy protection on Sept. 15.

John A. McQuaid resigned as president and chief executive officer of the National Private Truck Council.

An experiment under consideration by the Florida Department of Transportation would test the effects of allowing certain 95,000-pound trucks on state highways.

After backtracking for a few days early last week, it appeared that President Clinton was finally about to tap into the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve to fight back against outrageous fuel prices.

Until Sept. 16, the California trucker was the child caught between two warring parents. While the California Air Resources Board and Southern California’s regional South Coast Air Quality Management District argued about whether we truckers should have our porridge hot or cold, we just wanted to go out and play with the other kids.

Thousands of logistics professionals are descending on the Big Easy to try to make sense out of how the Internet is changing their industry.