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Allison Transmission expects its new plant in Indianapolis to reach full production speed this fall, but it will not be enough to meet the growing demand for automatic truck transmissions.

Fifty-five NationsWay Transport Service employees, laid off by the carrier’s bankruptcy closure, filed a lawsuit against the company’s management to recover lost wages, vacation pay and other reimbursements they claim are owed to them.

Trucking industry veteran Paul James has purchased Hiner Transport of Huntington, Ind., from company founders ºÚÁϳԹÏÍør and Marge Hiner for an undisclosed amount.

It takes a lot to shake up Wall Street analysts, especially at the end of a long day of talk about the state of the nation’s railroads. American Trucking Associations President Walter B. McCormick Jr. managed to jar participants at a June 3 rail conference out of their late afternoon malaise with his call for railroads to consider allowing trucking access to their tracks — that is, let trucking companies run trains.

There were ominous sounds coming out of railroad circles in the East last week, as Norfolk Southern Corp. and CSX Corp. went about digesting the routes and equipment that formerly comprised Conrail — for which they paid some $10.2 billion. Depending on which morning newspaper you read, things were either going okay (Wall Street Journal, Associated Press) or things were in danger of falling apart (Washington Post).

Great Basin Cos., a medium- and heavy-duty truck and trailer dealership in Salt Lake City, announced it has acquired two companies in the Las Vegas area.

A Clinton administration proposal to charge maritime vessel operators a fee to cover the cost of harbor and navigational channel dredging is under fire from ports and maritime interests, but a powerful lawmaker warned that some sort of fee is likely.

Cargo Transporters likes collision-warning systems well enough to equip 100 of its new trucks with the devices, which operate on the same principal as radar.

The Teamsters union negotiating team, led by general president James P. Hoffa in his first appearance at the bargaining table, came to terms with the unionized autohaulers last week, avoiding a job walkout that would have disrupted new car deliveries across the country.