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An attempt by TransFinancial Holdings President Timothy P. O’Neil and two directors to assume private ownership of the public company has failed.

Political pressure to force trucking companies to install electronic data recorders in their vehicles is increasing, and trucking needs to be an active player in the debate.

The bulldog has come to symbolize Mack trucks, but it also embodies the characteristics of tenacity and ruggedness that drove the company’s founding brothers to create a durable legacy.

Sky-high diesel prices along the Eastern Seaboard eased a little last week, as the national average price retreated slightly from the 10-year high set the week before. But Rocky Mountain and Midwest regions were not so fortunate, as fuel costs there increased for the sixth week in a row.

Fuel price spikes have ignited the simmering exasperation of port truckers into protests at harbors across the country, including a work stoppage that has shut down the Port of Miami since Feb. 7.

Nearly 30% of surveyed truckload carriers raised pay for their drivers an average of 4 cents a mile in the past three months, according to the latest report from Signpost Inc.

In the moving and storage industry, if you’re not the hunter, you could become the hunted.

Allied Worldwide plans to fatten its portfolio of subsidiaries with the acquisition of financially troubled Global Van Lines — a move that will further a trend of consolidation within the moving industry.

Money is at the heart of the debate over the future of the Single State Registration System.