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Landstar System has dropped its membership in American Trucking Associations, becoming the first major company to leave the trade association since the launching of the sweeping restructuring of ATA.

The Council of Logistics Management elected Kathleen Strange as its president for the 1999 term during its annual conference, held at the Anaheim Convention Center, Oct. 11-14.

If you can deal with the just-in-time deliveries that feed America’s manufacturing plants, you’re ready for cross-docking.

Vehicle sizes and weights are a contentious topic as old as trucking. But at an Oct. 12 session on carrier issues during the Council of Logistics Management's annual conference, one trucking leader took the opportunity to explain why adding one axle to trailers would boost productivity and be easier on roads.

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is suing a trucking company to recover the $2.7 million damage caused to a section of Interstate 95 by a gasoline tanker crash.

The Alabama Bureau of Investigation says a man wanted for murder may be hiding out at truck stops near the Alabama-Mississippi border and may try to solicit rides from truck drivers.

FDX Corp. named Joseph C. McCarty chief executive officer of FDX Global Logistics, a new organization that will include Caliber Logistics. He also will serve as CEO of Caliber Logistics.