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More than 12,000 jobs have now been eliminated in the slumping truck-manufacturing industry since October 1999 as two more manufacturers announced new production cuts.

Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta has a list of candidates to fill the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s top spot, but has not yet pinpointed anyone for the job. In the interim, Julie A. Cirillo continues to lead the agency.

Oh, my achin’ back!” Practically anybody who has a hands-on relationship with trucks has had occasion to say that.

t the request of the California Trucking Association and the pipeline industry, the California Public Utilities Commission agreed Jan. 26 to exempt petroleum pipelines from rolling electricty blackouts that have disrupted businesses for weeks.

Canadian National Railway Co. says its plan to purchase the Wisconsin Central Transportation Corp. at a cost of $1.2 billion should be seen by the Surface Transportation Board as a “minor transaction..

The Federal Reserve’s decision to reduce interest rates by another half-percentage point last week was welcome news to trucking executives, who know all too well how flat the domestic economy has become.

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President Bush, warning that the U.S. economy has warning signs of a downturn, sent his tax cut plan to Congress Thursday.

Ryder System Inc., the commercial truck-leasing and logistics services company, expects to cut up to 700 jobs in 2001 year, the Associated Press reported Thursday.