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An electronic global market for air cargo capacity is planned for rollout, with a bit of help from Germany’s postal service.

U.S. truckers dreaming of zipping across the border into Canada may not be indulging in idle fantasy. Within the next few years that dream could become a reality, thanks to a new border crossing process masterminded by the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency.

United Parcel Service of America is crying foul under the North American Free Trade Agreement resolution process and wants equal treatment for its business in Canada.

Hazardous material shipments will increase in the United States and so may the potential for disasters involving multiple deaths and mass evacuations unless the Department of Transportation does a better job, warns a federal investigative team.

United Parcel Service and ABF Freight System have little in common operationally, but executives with both companies agreed at Nasstrac's spring meeting that e-commerce is going to change the way they do business.

Somewhere in Canada’s governmental bureaucracy, lawyers are massaging the anxiously awaited hours-of-service reforms for trucking in that country.

This afternoon's headlines: Volvo still looking for acquisitions, mulling options for its stake in Scania; OSHA launches workers page for online hazard complaints; and UPS launches online store.

Ontario has pegged Nov. 1 as the official starting date of its entry into the International Registration Plan, in which participants pay license fees based on the number of fleet miles operated within the participating jurisdictions.

The freeway ramp connecting Texas Highway 225 with Houston’s Loop 610 has been the scene of number of truck rollovers, but a system of radar and laser beams has helped keep big rigs upright on the sharp turn.

In the news this morning: Mack plans expansion under Volvo ownership; Nebraska inspections take 50 rigs off the road; and More costs, traffic delay Mississippi highway widening program.