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A new study puts a positive spin on the environmental and safety aspects of the fossil-fuel-powered truck and its kin.

In the news this morning: Environmentalists claim engine makers are reneging on 1998 pollution deal; Con-Way Central Express opens freight assembly center in Illinois; OPEC members increasing oil production, but fuel prices inch upwards; and more.

This afternoon's headlines: Mexican truck-maker Grupo Dina makes changes at the top; feds say home sales dropped again in June; truckers worried about impact of hours rules; UP will investigate Teamster allegations; and more.

Today's technology headlines: Supply chain links aim for real-time data; Ericsson rolls out faster wireless capabilities; LaserShip.com picks Descartes for Web delivery operation; and more.

A group representing investors who hold about 30% of Navistar International Corp.’s 59 million outstanding stock shares told the firm’s directors to sell the company if that is the only way to avoid ending up a wallflower in the current round of industry consolidations.

The huge digital finger on Yellow Corp.’s annual report to shareholders makes a perfect point about the state of trucking in 1999: It was the year of the Internet.

Requiring employees to submit to random drug tests is an invasion of privacy, a provincial court in Ontario, Canada, has ruled.

Congress is considering giving railroads a tax break, but the industry doesn’t like the way it is being accomplished.

The chief executive officers of Burlington Northern Santa Fe and Canadian National railroads announced they are dropping their seven-month-old plans to create the biggest railroad on the continent. The announcement came after a federal court upheld the Surface Transportation Board’s moratorium on rail mergers.

The Department of Transportation and its divisions are doing a poor job meeting deadlines for new rules with the Office of the Secretary the slowest of all, taking an average of 6.6 years to complete action on rulemakings, said Rep. James Oberstar (D-Minn.).