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

TT PhotoShould 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. Railroad executives consider competitive access a life-or-death issue.

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

Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) appointed a 10-member task force to develop plans for improving Interstate 81 in Virginia.

TT PhotoFedEx is absolutely, positively in the freight business. Any doubt about the express carrier’s intent to compete head-on with less-than-truckload and air freight carriers was quickly dispelled during a recent interview with Kenneth A. May, its senior vice president of Air, Ground and Freight Services.

Representatives of car haulers and the Teamsters union exchanged contract proposals Feb. 5, kicking off negotiations on terms of a new National Master Automobile Transporters Agreement.

In the aftermath of AB Volvo’s agreement to sell its car division to Ford Motor Co., a semantic argument has erupted over a rival $13 billion bid for all of Volvo by Italian car and truckmaker Fiat.

The owners of a Lamar company and two employees have been sentenced in federal court for conspiracy to commit fraud.

The chairman and vice chairman of the Kansas House Transportation Committee have drafted their own transportation plan.

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