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When she started trucking over the road nearly 30 years ago, Dorothy “Dottie” Bryant figured she was probably one of the first of her gender to drive a big rig for a living. But she later discovered that at least one woman had preceded her — and by several decades.

Ryder System's latest restructuring marks an effort to combine operations for greater efficiency and to recapture the momentum that helped it grow into one of the largest and best known companies in the transportation industry.

Regulators are working to breathe life into the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration as 1999 comes to a close.

The chairman of Gainey Transportation Services said it is time for truckload carriers to “stop talking cents, and start talking percent.”

The owner of Charger Inc. is calling it quits two years after buying the former J.B. Hunt Transport flatbed division for $40 million.

A slight drop in the price of diesel fuel marked the third straight week of declines, but costs are expected to remain close to the three-year high reached in November.

California trucking companies are afraid of losing an important overtime pay exemption for many of their drivers because of new work regulations.

In a sign of further consolidation in the tank truck segment of the industry, Canadian-based Trimac Corp. of Calgary, Alberta, agreed to buy Initial DSI Transports of Houston for $68.3 million.

You’ve just got to hand it to those railroad folks: Just about the time that a lot of us are suffering from the frayed nerves and short tempers that go along with the end-of-the-year festivities, they pull a prank that is obviously designed to bring peals of healing laughter from shippers and government regulators, and men and women of good cheer, everywhere.