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The association representing private motor carrier fleets last week called on Congress to pass legislation that it said would improve trucking safety.

In a deal that brings together the second- and third-largest movers in the United States, the owner of North American Van Lines agreed to acquire Allied Van Lines and other moving services from London-based NFC Plc. for $450 million in cash and stock.

The National Transportation Safety Board last week waded through conflicting testimony about crossing signals and the actions of truck driver John Stokes, who was at the wheel of the steel-laden tractor-trailer struck by an Amtrak passenger train March 15 in Bourbonnais, Ill.

Rate increases posted by less-than-truckload carriers in recent weeks are drawing flak from an organization representing LTL and package shippers.

In the show jumping arena, horsepower is the force produced by 1,300-pound thoroughbreds leaping over obstacles the size of pickup trucks at the command of the rider. For Paul Petersen, it’s what’s harnessed under the hood of the Peterbilt 377 he relies on to transport horses on the show circuit.

Freight movement in the southeastern United States ground to a halt last week as a massive hurricane bobbed and weaved up the Eastern Seaboard, threatening to hammer towns from South Florida to North Carolina.

Reflecting the American Trucking Associations’ ongoing restructuring, the theme of this year's annual Management Conference & Exhibition will be “ATA: Look What We’re Building.”

Overnite Transportation Corp. withdrew its registration for an initial public offering Sept. 14, citing “current market conditions” as the reason.

Truck drivers working a 14-hour day with a lunch break do not get significantly more tired than colleagues who work fewer hours, according to a scientist with the ATA Foundation.

Instead of dumping damaged containers of paint, wood stain and related products, and thus having the otherwise useful goods end up as hazardous waste in a landfill, employees of Roadway Express donated the items to charity.