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While a labor-related obstacle to reauthorization of the Surface Transportation Board has been removed, shipper concerns about a lack of railroad competition remain a likely sticking point when Congress tackles the issue again next year.

A branch of the Environmental Protection Agency issued a draft report that says diesel emissions are “highly likely” to cause cancer and other health problems.

Washington state regulators proposed an ergonomics rule that would give the state one of the toughest such laws in the nation, and one of the primary targets of the rule is trucking.

Members of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union in British Columbia went back to work Nov. 15, after the Canadian federal government threatened to intervene with back-to-work legislation.

Covenant Transport, Chattanooga, Tenn., completed its second acquisition in the past month and a half with the purchase of Harold Ives Trucking and its freight brokerage affiliate, Harold Ives Transportation, for approximately $45 million.

At least some of us had mothers or fathers who warned that the risk of opening one’s mouth might just reveal more than we ever intended. A recent case in point occurred during the nagging dispute between truckers, ship lines, ports and railroads over the roadworthiness of intermodal equipment, and where the responsibility for it should rest.

One of the most important management problems facing truckload carriers is the excessive and unproductive time trucks and drivers spend at shippers’ and receivers’ docks. In fact, three recent surveys by the Truckload Carriers Association found that refrigerated carriers drivers spend over 40 hours a week at the shippers’ and receivers’ docks.

Country singer Shania Twain and XTRA Lease are working together to raise four tons of food for hungry children.

It’s not remarkable that Gerald Taylor drives a big rig cross-country for a living, but it is remnarkable that in November he will have driven 1 million miles since receiving a lung transplant.