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Volvo AB and Mitsubishi Motors Corp. have completed an agreement to form an alliance that is expected to open new markets to both manufacturers in the United States and elsewhere around the world.

Landstar System installed G. Tom Beam as president of its Landstar Ligon subsidiary, taking the first step in what is expected to be a concerted effort by Landstar management to reverse a proposed unsatisfactory safety rating by the Department of Transportation.

The leader of the nation’s largest trucking trade association has challenged the railroad industry to engage in a “new dialogue” aimed at “assuring fast, frequent, safe freight delivery” and called for a summit early next year between the transportation modes.

The national average price of diesel fuel provided a little holiday cheer by dropping for the second consecutive week. But the fall to $1.288 a gallon prompted one analyst to warn that the oil market was in a purge-and-binge mindset.

Days after President Clinton signed legislation creating a Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, the head of the Department of Transportation’s watchdog office encouraged the new agency to use the tools it has to improve truck and bus safety.

A lot of ideas are circulating about the qualities that the first head of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration ought to possess.

Trucking executives who think there’s little they can do to prevent cargo theft should talk to Gary Fitzsimmons.

Convincing voters to raise their own taxes is a tall order, but that’s the task Oregon truckers face if they want a repeal of the state’s weight-distance tax to take effect.

Trucking industry officials and educators say they will work together in Arkansas to build a driver training and transportation worker learning center, whose young graduates would be exempt from the federal minimum age for interstate truckers.

A proposed buyout of TransFinancial Holdings by a group of its top executives has drawn criticism from a Massachusetts-based stockholder who said management’s offer of $6.03 a share is far below the net asset value of the company.