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SAN ANTONIO - Truckload carriers closed their 63rd annual meeting here on Wednesday by installing a new chairman and trying to move away from the turbulence of 2000, toward a calmer routine of providing business services for members while the American Trucking Associations takes care of advocacy issues.

Faced with slow growth in their traditional carload business, U.S. railroads have turned to intermodal to stimulate revenue and earnings gains. They are investing large sums in facilities devoted to intermodal, convinced that they can woo customers and rebuild their images with improved service.

Shifting freight from trucks to rail in North American trade corridors would significantly increase air pollution in those areas over the next 20 years as the percentage of pollution caused by trains increases and the percentage caused by trucks decreases, according to a study done by the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation.

Rep. Jack Quinn is proud of becoming one of the nation’s most influential railroad policy-makers just a generation after his father toiled on steel wheels to feed his five children. The fifth-term New York Republican, son of a 30-year locomotive engineer, is chairman of the newly formed Subcommittee on Railroads under the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

The government released three new reports Thursday that all help the case for the Federal Reserve to continue cutting interest rates.

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DaimlerChrysler officially said Wednesday it has reached a deal to jointly produce commercial vehicles with Japan's Mitsubishi Motors, strengthening its position in the Asian market.

Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), chairman of the Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee, has introduced a bill that would prohibit last year’s proposed hours-of-service revisions from being adopted.

The overturning of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s controversial ergonomics rules should also signal the end to a lawsuit seeking to block the rules, the U.S. Department of Labor argued last week in a court petition.