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Federal Express and its unionized pilots restarted contract negotiations after the pilots promised not to strike during the holiday season.

With the Teamsters presidency at stake, the U.S. Postal Service is delivering union members’ ballots to an industrial office building just around the corner from American Trucking Associations’ headquarters in Alexandria, Va.

Setting the stage for what has become an annual debate over how to fund the Surface Transportation Board, the Department of Transportation’s inspector general says it would be difficult for the board to cover the entire cost of its operations through user fees.

The federal judge reviewing the settlement between the Environmental Protection Agency and diesel engine manufacturers agreed to allow the pact to go into effect while his review continues.

One in ten truck drivers tested positive for drugs or alcohol during a recent safety checkpoint of commercial vehicles in southern Oregon, and 26% of the trucks had to be put out of service.

Photo by VolvoThe Environmental Protection Agency was told that its emissions test for diesel engines was flawed four years before the agency imposed penalties on engine suppliers, Volvo Truck Corp. said.

National Industrial Transportation League President Edward M. Emmett convened the NITL annual meeting by declaring that the membership would have to grow for the league to build on its successes and extend its power.

Amtrak said it expects its fledgling express freight business to increase by 29% during the current fiscal year, to $107 million, with most of the business being diverted from trucking carriers.

Less-than-truckload carriers are departing from a trend that had developed in recent years: the annual Jan. 1 rate increase.

Trucking interests spent $200,000 on television commercials in the hotly contested Nevada U.S. Senate race, according to American Trucking Associations officials.