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Trucking’s chief federal regulator defended her agency last week against criticism about the slow pace of hiring staff and writing rules, and revealed that deaths from truck-related crashes in 1999 fell 3% from the previous year, which she said showed that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is doing its job.

The Internet is having a major impact on the way trucking companies do business by making it easier to communicate with customers and reducing the time it takes to process transactions.

Movers have decided to take action to stem the tide of Internet-based operations taking a slice out of their household goods hauling business.

It was a common scene at grade school science fairs: a demonstration of the effects of extreme cold.

Moving company drivers do more loading and unloading than the average trucker, and that fact has some in the household goods industry concerned about the federal government’s plans to change hours-of-service regulations.

Transportation interests must decide who should be responsible for maintaining intermodal containers and chassis or face the prospect of state regulators deciding for them, according to the nation’s top intermodal official.

Companies that do nothing more than match shippers with carriers on the Internet are springing up to meet electronic commerce demands, wring inefficiency out of freight transportation and make money.

Ocean Group plc and NFC plc are exploring “a merger of equals” that would create one of the world’s largest providers of integrated logistics services.

Asche Transportation Services fired Chairman Larry L. Asche and Vice President Diane L. Asche, his wife, for allegedly misappropriating $1 million in company funds over a number of years.