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Driver fatigue was spotlighted as the No. 1 safety issue in trucking as a result of the 1995 Truck and Bus Safety Summit that was held in Kansas City. To be held in Atlanta Dec. 6-10, the next national meeting will continue the dialogue among “the best highway safety minds” in the U.S. and North America, said the federal Office of Motor Carriers.

Aasche Transportation Services, Shannon, Ill., expanded its waste hauling business with two recent transactions.

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.

For all its tongue-twisting jargon and impressive college curricula, billions of bytes of software and lickety-split communications, when all is said and done the transportation industry is, very simply, moving boxes of stuff from here to there.

Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said Friday that he would propose a diesel tax increase to repair roads even though that tax is opposed by truckers who support him. The truckers and Huckabee re on the same side when it comes to opposing toll booths on Arkansas interstate routes.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration apparently will publish its proposal for ergonomics regulations next September.

Marshall Siegel, president of the Independent Truckers Owner-Operators Assn., and Marilyn L. Kriensky, an I-TOO office manager, pleaded guilty Nov. 5 to swindling truckers out of more than $200,000.

Clean Diesel Technologies said it raised approximately $1.85 million from European investors to continue funding the development of fuel additives to reduce diesel engine emissions.

Transit Group said it obtained a $50 million commitment from GE Capital to help refinance its current fleet of tractors and trailers and to support future equipment purchases.