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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.

American Trucking Associations recruited a senior executive of the Association of American Railroads to be its new senior vice president and chief financial officer. AAR Executive Vice President David B. Barefoot will begin his new job in early December.

After a four-year increase, the number of tractor-trailers involved in fatal crashes in Canada fell between 1995 and 1996, according to statistics released by Transport Canada, the federal department of transportation of that country.

Continuing its aggressive expansion ahead of scheduled privatization in 2000, the state-owned German postal service, Deutsche Post, has purchased a 50% stake in the British express parcel company, Securicor.

Michael J. Hayes, director of advertising sales for Transport Topics and TT Publishing since 1994, has been promoted to vice president and associate publisher.

Federal Express said its plans to restructure operations could make the company less dependent on its 3,500 unionized pilots, who have refused to work overtime.

AmeriTruck Distribution Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and plans to sell the assets of its refrigerated trucking business and use the proceeds to reduce its debt.

The head of the Ohio Trucking Assn. is among the witnesses scheduled to testify next Monday at a hearing in Middleburg Heights, Ohio, on a planned 10% increase in tolls on the Ohio Turnpike.

Trism Inc. is trying to grow its trucking business by targeting new markets and joining with other companies to provide transportation services.