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Union Pacific Railroad and Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Co. will coordinate their dispatch operations covering Southern California, Kansas City and the Powder River Basin in Wyoming.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Senate Transportation Chairman Evan Frasure wants to lower the state gas tax by up to four cents, which would reduce the Department of Transportation's budget by as much as $32 million at a time when the state remains pressed to meet backlogged highway needs.

Freightliner Corp. and its parent company, Daimler-Benz AG, claim that in 1991 the Environmental Protection Agency explicitly condoned the same electronic emissions controls that the agency later called “defeat devices.”

ANR Advance Transportation, Milwaukee, will close the Special Services Division of its truckload operations, the company announced.

Federal Express Corp. will increase rates by an average of 2.8% for shipments within the U.S., the company announced Monday.

Two of the best-known names in the chemical hauling business are about to disappear.

TT PhotoShould American Trucking Associations get involved in the debate over railroad competitive access? That’s the question ATA’s board of directors will consider at its winter meeting next week in San Francisco. Railroad executives consider competitive access a life-or-death issue.

United Parcel Service Europe is considering a joint venture with archrival Deutsche Post, the German post office, to establish the first private, long-distance rail freight operation in Europe.

Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) appointed a 10-member task force to develop plans for improving Interstate 81 in Virginia.

TT PhotoFedEx is absolutely, positively in the freight business. Any doubt about the express carrier’s intent to compete head-on with less-than-truckload and air freight carriers was quickly dispelled during a recent interview with Kenneth A. May, its senior vice president of Air, Ground and Freight Services.