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Jevic Transportation, the heavyweight less-than-truckload carrier and vendor to the chemical industry whose rapid growth at an early age once impressed investors, closed its doors and filed for bankruptcy last week after 27 years in business.

Ford Motor Co. said Thursday it will cut North American vehicle production for the rest of this year and that it expects to break even next year, delaying a previous profit target, Bloomberg reported.

A study conducted by the American Transportation Research Institute found there is no correlation between the length of a training program and safety performance.

UPS Inc. said Wednesday it is moving its primary intra-Asia air hub to southern China, from the Philippines, to save money and reduce transit times across Asia.

The number of Americans traveling by automobile more than 50 miles will fall by 1% Memorial Day weekend, the first such drop in six years, the motorist group AAA said.

American Trucking Associations Wednesday called on Congress to help the trucking industry to improve highway safety by supporting efforts to enhance drug and alcohol testing for the nation’s 3.4 million truck drivers.

The Department of ���ϳԹ���land Security has awarded a $15.5 million trucking security grant to an Alexandria, Va., firm, effectively ending American Trucking Associations’ four-year-long Highway Watch program.

The head of the Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association said a plan backed by Gov. Ed Rendell (D) to lease the Pennsylvania Turnpike for 75 years “does not meet the needs of the transportation community at large.”