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May 9, 2005

Judge Upholds California Retrofit Law

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. California court has refused to stop the implementation of a state regulation requiring diesel engine manufacturers to reset engine controls on older trucks in order to meet emission standards.

May 9, 2005

LTL Carrier Service Transport Closes

Less-than-truckload carrier Service Transport Inc., Cookeville, Tenn., shut down last week, the Tennessean reported.

May 9, 2005

TransForce Completes Purchase of Groupe Gregoire

Canadian transportation and logistics firm TransForce Income Fund said Monday it had completed the acquisition of Groupe Gregoire Inc.

May 9, 2005

Wholesale Inventories Rise in March

Wholesale inventories increased 0.4% to $346.7 billion in March, the Commerce Department reported Monday.

May 9, 2005

March Air Cargo Shipments Rise 3.1%

Total air cargo shipments rose 3.1% in March compared with a year earlier, following a 1.3% year-over-year drop in February, the Air Transport Association reported.

May 9, 2005

Xora Asks to Track Driver Hours With GPS-Equipped Cellphones

Wireless-technology vendor Xora Inc. has asked the Department of Transportation for an exemption to the hours-of-service rules that would permit the company to market cellphones equipped with global positioning systems capable of tracking and logging the time truck drivers spend behind the wheel.

May 9, 2005

Expeditors International Increases Dividend

Logistics firm Expeditors International of Washington Inc. said Monday its board of directors increased its semi-annual cash dividend to 15 cents per share, from 11 cents.

May 9, 2005

DOT's Transportation, Freight Indices Fall

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor.The Department of Transportation said Friday its transportation services index fell 1% February from the previous month.

May 6, 2005

Intermodal Volume Jumps for Week, Month

Intermodal volume jumped 7.3% to 226,253 trailers or containers for the week ended April 30, the highest level ever for the first half of a year, the Association of American Railroads reported.

May 6, 2005

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