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The state of Washington adopted an ergonomics standard that officials said would help reduce 50,000 workplace injuries and the $411 million in costs attributable to those injuries.

A full year after CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern Railroad began to dismember and divide Conrail, both companies are still battered and bruised in recovering from a debacle that damaged their reputations, their customer relations and their bottom lines.

Fast delivery of vehicles is a relative concept. For heavy-duty tractors with highly customized spec sheets, fast delivery could mean any time under six months. Buyers of medium-duty walk-in parcel delivery vans, however, are more accustomed to a two- to three-month wait for delivery from the time of order.

The American biodiesel industry, responding to a report that a Belgian study found biodiesel detrimental to the environment, said its soy-based product does not contain harmful ingredients.

The price of diesel fuel fell one-tenth of a cent this week, while analysts continued to warn that inventories are at alarmingly low levels.

Trailer shipments during the first three months of 2000 have pulled even with the same period in 1999 after running behind for the first two months of the year.

Texas transportation officials want to make more funds available to fix the thousands of bridges in the state that are considered not structurally sound enough to carry heavy vehicles.

KLLM Chairman William “Jack” Liles III brought himself back from a brief, self-imposed exile May 26 and now stands poised to take over his own company.

CSX Corp. paid bonuses to 4,400 managers and office workers at its rail unit in two weeks after the owner of the No. 3 U.S. railroad reported a 61% decline in first-quarter profit.

A year ago, Paul Brennan, then shepherding along revisions of the hours of service for the Department of Transportation as director of motor carrier standards, warned that when the carrier industry finally saw the proposal, it would erupt in a chorus of boos.