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Yellow Hires Ad Agency To Develop Campaign

Yellow Freight System selected Campbell-Ewald Advertising as its advertising and marketing communications partner.

October 13, 1999

Fatality Reduction Keynotes International Safety Seminar

The second International Large Truck Safety Symposium brought together more than 150 motor carriers, federal officials and safety advocates to find ways to make the industry safer.

October 13, 1999

Former Transport Topics Editor Bill Odlin Dies

William S. Odlin Jr., a former editor-in-chief of Transport Topics, died Oct. 5 from cancer of the esophagus. The 82-year-old native of Washington, D.C., was born and died at Georgetown Hospital.

October 13, 1999

UPS Offering Customers Free Access to Web Sites

Looking to expand its electronic business, United Parcel Service is offering customers free Internet connections to its shipping and information Web sites.

October 13, 1999

Momentum Builds to Create Truck Safety Administration

As support snowballs for a separate motor carrier safety administration, the Federal Highway Administration continued to take body blows for its failure to adequately enforce safety regulations and for its sluggishness in issuing a final rule on hours-of-service regulations.

October 6, 1999

STB Suspends Truck Rate Increases

Amid shipper protests, the Surface Transportation Board voted to suspend truck freight rate increases proposed by four motor carrier rate bureaus while the board investigates the hikes.

October 6, 1999

DOT Rejects Request to Publish Hours-of-Service Data

The Department of Transportation says it will not release the scientific basis of new hours-of-service regulations for truck drivers before a proposal is unveiled.

October 6, 1999

EPA Considers Further Cut In Truck Emission Limits

The Environmental Protection Agency is reportedly planning to cut truck tailpipe emissions up to 90% more than the already strict new levels that diesel engine makers have agreed to meet by 2002.

October 6, 1999

RPS Charts Independent Course

About 6:30 every morning, Urbano Petrizza arrives at the RPS Inc. terminal here dressed in an RPS uniform and picks up his RPS van. But he's not an employee: He's an independent contractor.

October 6, 1999