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File PhotoFedEx pilots approved their first contract with the cargo airline on Thursday, 2 1/2 months after backing down from a threatened strike.

Eaton Corp. wanted a leadership role in industrial hydraulics and got it Monday with an agreement to buy Aeroquip-Vickers Inc. for about $1.7 billion.

The trucking industry should trade government-sought safety enhancements for the right to increase productivity, James Hebe, chief executive officer of Freightliner Corp. said Tuesday.

A report to the Kansas House Appropriations Committee at the end of January said that the idea of a tax increase for transportation met acceptance with everyone who spoke at 12 town hall meetings.

A 22-year-old Waianae man was arrested after trucks at a Honolulu rental company were torched for the second time.

South Dakota should scrap the sales tax on in-state trucking, the House Taxation Committee decided Tuesday.

Chancellor Corp., an equipment leasing and fleet management firm based in Boston, acquired Tomahawk Truck & Trailer Sales of Atlanta.

The Department of Transportation is making it easier to quantify its performance by including in its 2000 budget proposal a series of goals.

TT File PhotoWith almost $1.5 billion in unanticipated gas revenues coming in, the Clinton administration and the Republican-controlled Congress are already fighting over what to do with the extra cash. Some ideas include allocating funds for road construction, NHTSA safety programs and air quality improvements.