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Amtrak says its express cargo service is attracting increasing amounts of priority freight. Amtrak's Ed Ellis, commenting at the National Industrial Transportation League's annual meeting, said the freight is being diverted from trucking carriers, not from other railroads.

Representatives from Federal Express Corp. and its pilots union met with the National Mediation Board in Washington Monday as the government sought to get the two sides talking again.

Penske Truck Leasing agreed to acquire the assets of Young NationaLease, a truck rental and leasing company based in Canton, Ohio. Penske is the nation's second largest truck rental and leasing company with 400 locations in the U.S., Canada and Mexico.

Miller Bros., one of Colorado's longest running trucking companies, has been sold to HVH Transportation. Both companies are based in Denver.

The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission will lay off union workers for the first time since the road was built 58 years ago.

With bells, parties and a blizzard of publicity, the newly merged DaimlerChrysler comes into being Tuesday when its stock begins trading on 19 financial markets round the world.

In what may be a precursor of a congressional debate next year over trucking productivity, four western governors are asking for formal hearings on giving states flexibility to increase the size and weight of trucks on federal highways.

Nevada election officials declared incumbent Harry Reid the winner in an election race for the U.S. Senate that still could be challenged.

More than 2,600 shippers, carrier executives, transportation specialists and others were set to converge in San Diego this week at the 91st annual meeting of the largest shippers’ organization in the U.S., the National Industrial Transportation League.

The Arkansas Highway Commission has proposed to place tolls on Interstate highways in Arkansas to pay for repairs and improvements, but a newly assembled coalition opposed to new tolls on Interstates will do everything in its power to make sure that doesn't happen.