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United Parcel Service has restored most of its intermodal business to the Norfolk Southern and CSX railroads, but some other major shippers say things are getting worse again.

More than 5,000 logistics professionals will gather in Toronto Oct. 17 to 20 for the 1999 meeting of the Council of Logistics Management to focus on strengthening the international logistics network.

Ken Johnson, chairman of The Maintenance Council, cited the work ethic of three council members — two engine company workers and an employee of a trucking firm — as he bestowed upon them the organization’s highest honor.

When the AFL-CIO voted Oct. 13 to endorse Vice President Al Gore for president, two major players in the labor federation refused to sign on: the United Auto Workers and the Teamsters.

Truckers caught in the middle of political controversy between the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey and a nearby town are facing delays and heavy scrutiny at traffic stops outside the dock gates.

Major package delivery firms are shooting down efforts to ship handguns, largely because of the risk associated with lost or stolen firearms.

The House of Representatives passed its version of a bill Oct. 14 to create the National Motor Carrier Administration and beef up truck and bus safety on other fronts, in what some observers are calling the most significant change in federal trucking oversight since the industry was deregulated nearly 20 years ago.

In voting to establish a motor carrier administration Oct. 14, the House also approved language that could nail the coffin lid on the state-based Single State Registration System, which allows trucking companies to register their operations using proof of insurance.

When Procter & Gamble Co., one of the nation’s largest consumer products manufacturers, and Wal-Mart Stores, the world’s biggest retail chain, decided to share sales information and work together to reduce distribution costs, many truckers who hauled goods for the two companies naturally wondered what would be in store for them.