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The appointment of John P. Chandler as chief executive officer of Intrenet Inc. on May 1 marked the end of a yearlong process to identify and install new top management at the transportation holding company based in Milford, Ohio.

Motor carriers and shippers, frequently at odds over the issue of freight classification, have agreed to work together to determine how to classify shipments of poisonous materials.

Motor carriers and shippers, frequently at odds over the issue of freight classification, have agreed to work together to determine how to classify shipments of poisonous materials.

Two groups bidding to acquire KLLM Transport Services, the nations’ fifth-largest refrigerated carrier, last week agreed to submit binding offers to a special committee of the board of directors on May 5.

Pitt Ohio Express, a less-than-truckload general freight carrier serving the Mid-Atlantic region, raised its base rates by an average 5.9% on May 1 to compensate for rising labor costs.

Though private fleets have faced a number of challenges in recent years – stiff competition from for-hire carriers as well as waves of corporate downsizing and restructuring – corporate trucking is alive and well.

United Parcel Service and ABF Freight System have little in common operationally.

A $100 million-a-year contract won by J.B. Hunt Transport Services to take over shipments leaving Wal-Mart’s crossdock facilities has some carriers concerned they will be cut out by the Lowell, Ark., truckload and logistics giant.

Reports of his demise, Mark Twain quipped, are greatly exaggerated.

United Parcel Service and ABF Freight System have little in common operationally, but executives with both companies agreed at Nasstrac's spring meeting that e-commerce is going to change the way they do business.