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For carriers, the effort to find the best nonidling cooling option for the truck cab has not been without starts and stops.

Pilot Flying J announced it will acquire a controlling stake in Maxum Petroleum. Terms were not disclosed.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will research how it could assign blame for truck crashes based on a carrier’s fault, and publish the results of its study in summer 2013, the agency said Monday.

Forward Air Corp.’s second-quarter net income rose to $14.2 million, or 48 cents a share, from $12 million, or 40 cents, a year ago.

This is in reference to the article headlined “High Turnover Means Trucking Companies Need New Strategies to Recruit, Retain Drivers” that appeared on page A3 of the Transport Topics Top 100 For-Hire Carriers supplement bound into your July 16 issue.

When I hear the current challenger for the presidency of the United States talk about job creation, I think back to one night in November 2005 when I was on the road and listening to a nationally broadcast radio talk show.

When the U.S. Postal Service’s biggest airfreight contract, worth $1.4 billion, expires in September 2013, current pact holder FedEx Corp. will have to battle archrival UPS Inc. to keep it.

Federal regulatory “guidance” issued last month that restricts the number of oil and gas drivers allowed to extend their workdays beyond the 14-hour limit could have significant adverse economic and safety implications for the trucking industry, several truckers said in comments filed earlier this month.