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Volvo Trucks North America will lay off more than 400 employees at its Dublin,Va., plant in mid-February, bringing the total layoffs at the facility to 800 and dropping employment at the plant to about 2,400 workers.

The International Registration Plan, by which trucking companies register their vehicles, could go awry in California if the industry, government officials and lawmakers can’t bring the state’s tax and registration policies into line with the other IRP states by next year.

TransForce Inc., one of the most active trucking consolidators in Canada, last week agreed to acquire TST Solutions of Mississauga, Ontario, for $85 million Canadian ($59 million U.S.).

Today’s fuel price and supply situation can be best summed up by repeating that old joke that goes, “Smile, things could be worse. So I did, and they were.”

When does a state tax represent an impost or embargo in restraint of interstate commerce? f you’re familiar with the Oregon weight-distance tax, you might readily suggest that Oregon is “damn close.”

A Volvo truck powered by a hybrid electric engine will be the first to hit the road under the U.S. Army’s 21st Century Truck Initiative.

New technologies and services are making it easier — and cheaper — for regional and local less-then-truckload freight carriers to improve their productivity. The real issue, however, is not whether the technology may aid the carriers, but whether the carriers are ready to embrace it, according to people who sell the technology.

Railroad management and labor unions have agreed on changes they want to make in the Railroad Retirement Act, and now they want Congress to enact them.

U.S. Xpress, One of the nation’s largest truckload carriers, is beginning to push for changes in the way fuel surcharges are calculated to recover more of its fuel costs.

Amtrak beat its business plan by more than $2 million in the first quarter of fiscal 2000, the quasi-public corporation announced Jan. 23, thanks in part to its express shipment business.