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The proposed Department of Transportation budget for the next fiscal year, starting Oct. 1, calls for more highway spending but allocates most of a $1.5 billion windfall in motor fuel tax revenue to non-road spending.

Two of the best-known names in the chemical hauling business are about to disappear.

Now it’s official, and Congress should take note: Executives of Freightliner Corp. and its corporate parent, Daimler-Benz AG, claim that the Environmental Protection Agency gave its seal of approval to the exact engine testing strategy the agency last year used as the basis for $1 billion in fines and remedial actions against the nation’s manufacturers of diesel truck engines.

The railroads just can’t seem to cope with success.

Should American Trucking Associations get involved in the debate over railroad competitive access? That’s the question ATA’s board of directors will consider at its winter meeting next week in San Francisco.

United Parcel Service Europe is considering a joint venture with archrival Deutsche Post, the German post office, to establish the first fully independent, private, long-distance rail freight operation in Europe.

No longer merely an information superhighway, the Internet is being developed as a logistics management tool.

The new chairman of the Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee is a former governor who supported giving responsibility for the federal highway program to the states.

Transport Topics Editor Howard S. Abramson and national affairs correspondent David Barnes recently interviewed Edward Hamberger, president of the Association of American Railroads.

The ball is now in American Trucking Associations’ court. That’s the word from the 13 state trucking association executives that met in Dallas Jan. 30.