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Self-driving vehicles present the biggest challenge for road planners since horse and buggies gave way to automobiles in the early 20th Century, Tennessee's transportation chief says.

At the lab in suburban Collierville outside Memphis, Tennessee, technicians use machines to drop, squeeze, smash and vibrate packages containing such items flat-screen TVs, Memphis barbecue, cakes and guitars.

FedEx Corp. CEO Fred Smith met with President-elect Donald Trump on Nov. 17 in New York.

Mike Ducker, president of FedEx Freight, said it's too early to tell how a mammoth new trade agreement will fare after the election of Donald Trump, but it would be "tragic" for the Trans-Pacific Partnership to go down.

FedEx expects about 10% growth in holiday season shipping volume amid an avalanche of e-commerce.

Chairman Frederick Smith announced to employees Aug. 24 that the company would adopt the 43-year-old FedEx combination of purple and orange as its unified color scheme.

The Port of Memphis isn't pretty, but it works. Bustling with oil and chemical storage tanks, warehouses, factories, trucks, trains and barges, it's where the heavy lifting of Memphis is done: manufacturing, steel fabricating, chemical and food processing and asphalt mixing.

FedEx Corp. chief Fred Smith said June 21 the company is concerned about both presidential candidates’ views on trade, but he hopes it’s only campaign rhetoric.

Memphis, Tennessee, airport officials will consider leasing about 15 more acres to their largest tenant, FedEx.

FedEx board member and author, Joshua Cooper Ramo, believes in the power of supercomputers, meganetworks and artificial intelligence to transform humanity.