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Allied Holdings' Stock Resumes Trading • Consolidated Freightways Settles Discrimination Lawsuit • Trailer Maker to Expand Output in 2005 • Shipping Cos. Consider Alternative Ports to Avoid Delays

Shell Sells Calif. Refinery to Flying J • Trade Gap Widens to Record $60.3 Billion in November • Arkansas Gov. Seeks $1 Billion to Improve Highways • Exel Buys Power Packaging

UPS Inc. on Tuesday lowered its fourth-quarter earnings prediction due to a slowing of domestic package volume between Christmas and New Year’s Day and higher-than-anticipated operating costs.

Hours after UPS Inc. lowered its fourth-quarter earnings, rival FedEx Corp. late Tuesday reaffirmed its previous guidance of 90 cents to $1.00 per share for its fiscal third quarter ending Feb. 28.

The Transportation Security Administration took two incremental steps toward meeting its Jan. 31 deadline to implement fingerprint-based background checks for hazardous materials drivers. It named a contractor to handle the checks and announced that several states would use that contractor.

A Department of Transportation agency has proposed a rule that would require tank truck drivers hauling gasoline and other flammable liquids to purge the pipes used in loading and unloading before returning to the road.

Iowa Begins Training Highway Watch Volunteers • FRA Issues Safety Advisory After Deadly Accident • Another Case of Mad Cow Disease Confirmed in Canada

Freight railroad Union Pacific Corp. said Wednesday the California storms had shut down almost all train service in the Los Angeles area, Bloomberg reported..

UPS Buys 10 New Planes From Airbus • Allied Holdings Reports Larger 3Q Net Loss • Mullen Considers Converting to Trust; Shares Surge • Rush Completes Acquisition • And more...

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