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The federal government wants to retain financial reporting requirements for nearly 3,000 of the nation’s largest trucking companies, but it also may give carriers a way to keep the information private.

Michael A. Meredith, the long-time president of the Oregon Trucking Assns., has joined American Trucking Associations to help guide and strengthen ATA’s relationship with the state associations in the next century.

Consolidated Freightways is the first trucking company to outsource a large segment of its information technology operations to IBM Global Services, a unit of International Business Machines Corp.

An eastern Iowa trucking company owner who pleaded guilty to falsifying driver logs was ordered to pay over $23,000 and sentenced to six months in prison.

Freight distribution systems can be optimized electronically no matter what the size of the trucking or shipping company, a pair of experts told the Oct. 26 general session of the ATA Management Conference.

A union representing most United Parcel Service drivers in New Mexico failed to comply with a settlement of a case in which eight workers tried to leave the union.

A congressional subcommittee is looking into the role of national Teamsters in the 1995 election of Gov. Paul Patton.

Union Pacific Railroad expects to hire nearly 60,000 workers over the next 12 years to replace retiring workers and respond to increased business at the nation's largest railroad, according to a published report.

More and more, electronics are replacing the telephone at truck stops as the main communication service for many companies and drivers.

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