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ZF Meritor, a joint venture between Michigan-based Meritor Automotive and the German firm ZF Friedrichshafen, will roll out an automated truck transmission that does not require a clutch pedal.

In the news this morning: Covenant Transport buys two shippers for $45 million; Yellow loses another top executive; and Fla. dealership owner eyes next step for Nextran.

This afternoon's headlines: Australian smuggling suspect may stay jailed until trial; Study shows traffic is getting worse; and S.C. officials offer way to build new port without more trucks.

United Parcel Service ended more than 90 years of private ownership last week with a record breaking initial public stock offering, raising $5.47 billion.

A. Maurice Myers is trying for a corporate hat trick. Three years after joining Yellow Corp., Myers last week announced his immediate departure for the greener pastures of the trash-hauling industry.

A study conducted by a regional planning agency in California points the finger at diesel emissions for 71% of the cancer risk from air contaminants in the Los Angeles Basin.

Jevic Transportation is proving that it pays to be different. Just ask its new owner, Yellow Corp., which doled out $200 million for the family-run business in August.

Dozens of trucking executives and industry lawyers assembled to discuss vexing labor relations issues and how best to adapt to the changes ahead of them as the century draws to a close at the 13th annual conference of the North American Trucking Industrial Relations Association.

Employment attorney Thomas P. Krukowski represented the Teamsters union in the early 1970s and at one point litigated cases with newly anointed Teamsters chief James P. Hoffa. His hair is longish, he wears a bow tie and he’s still fond of quoting Saul Alinski’s “Rules for Radicals,” a seminal organizing text of the 1960s.