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Increased domestic and international freight volume and a shift to higher-priced express delivery services lifted United Parcel Service’s profits by 42% in the first quarter of 1999.

Nearly 60 years ago, a small radio group led by Orson Welles broadcast “War of the Worlds.” The broadcast was done in a radio news format and spectacularly laid out an invasion of earth by Martians. As a result, nearly 1 million people made a solid push on the panic button. The next morning, everyone awoke to discover the invasion existed only in the imagination of the broadcasters and their listeners.

SAN ANTONIO — Trailer makers can expect the vital economy to keep their businesses strong, but they will have to find creative ways to increase profits, an economist told participants at the annual meeting of the Truck Trailer Manufacturers Association.

Joe Pennell is not your typical private fleet manager. For one thing, he’s a former U.S. Army pilot who flew a Cobra helicopter gunship in the Persian Gulf War. For another, he doesn’t manage any trucks.

Though well into his 80s, Benjamin Layton still remembers the trucking experiences of his youth — no matter how hard he tries to forget them.

Snapping a streak of seven weeks of increases, the retail price of diesel fuel edged downward by 0.4 cent to a national average of $1.08 a gallon on April 19.

Trucking’s chief regulator put on a softer face as she outlined a three-pronged approach to improve truck safety that includes education, enforcement and expanded use of technology.

Schneider National, the nation’s largest truckload carrier, expects to boost its intermodal business 20% this year and expand the number of intermodal containers in its fleet from 750 to 2,000.

The federal fee for hazardous materials transport registration would take a big jump for a relatively small number of larger carriers and shippers under a new proposal advanced by a cash-hungry Research and Special Programs Administration.