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Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee faces an uphill struggle to pass his interstate highway improvement plan in the House without some help to speed up improvements on other roads.

Ohio transportation officials will spend $4.3 billion on road construction and repair over the next two years under a proposed budget Gov. Bob Taft released Tuesday.

Skyway Freight Systems has created two new business units, Charles Lounsberry, Skyway’s chief executive officer, announced.

Cadec Corp., formerly part of the Cummins Engine Co., announced it has become an employee-owned company.

The Oregon Trucking Associations thinks the 1999 session of the state legislature offers its best chance in years to win repeal of Oregon’s weight-distance tax.

Union Pacific Railroad and Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Co. will coordinate their dispatch operations covering Southern California, Kansas City and the Powder River Basin in Wyoming.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Senate Transportation Chairman Evan Frasure wants to lower the state gas tax by up to four cents, which would reduce the Department of Transportation's budget by as much as $32 million at a time when the state remains pressed to meet backlogged highway needs.

Freightliner Corp. and its parent company, Daimler-Benz AG, claim that in 1991 the Environmental Protection Agency explicitly condoned the same electronic emissions controls that the agency later called “defeat devices.”

ANR Advance Transportation, Milwaukee, will close the Special Services Division of its truckload operations, the company announced.

Federal Express Corp. will increase rates by an average of 2.8% for shipments within the U.S., the company announced Monday.