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Somewhere in Canada’s governmental bureaucracy, lawyers are massaging the anxiously awaited hours-of-service reforms for trucking in that country.

Before the end of the year, truckers should be able to zip through tollbooths on Illinois’ tollways with a smile and a wave, but not a stop.

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.

There’s an old adage that goes: “Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.”

In this world of change, it is important for organizations to look at the horizon, to re-evaluate, to seek guidance, to consider ways of doing things differently. Today, change is taking place at the Military Traffic Management Command. And frankly, it is overdue.

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

The National Private Truck Council has an identity crisis. It is not well-known among its potential members: companies that operate trucks to haul the goods they produce or distribute but that do not consider freight transportation to be their primary business.

An electronic global market for air cargo capacity is planned for rollout, with a bit of help from Germany’s postal service.

U.S. truckers dreaming of zipping across the border into Canada may not be indulging in idle fantasy. Within the next few years that dream could become a reality, thanks to a new border crossing process masterminded by the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency.