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A proposed rule changing unloading operations for haulers of liquefied compressed gases such as propane could cost as much as $3,000 for each truck, an industry official said.

The Burlington Northern & Santa Fe Railway is testing a new service allowing customers to reserve intermodal service.

Engine manufacturers and petroleum companies will meet in mid-April to talk about the future of the diesel engine in the face of increasing government regulation.

Rep. Jim Oberstar said he will try again to expand the freeze on longer combination vehicles, while American Trucking Associations and other industry groups push their agenda on LCVs and other issues in written comments responding to a Department of Transportation report on truck sizes and weights.

Trucking hopes that the $363,387 the industry gave to members of the House Appropriations Committee during the 1997 to 1998 election cycle bought them some clout.

James P. Hoffa was finally sworn in as general president of the Teamsters union March 22, and he immediately turned his attention to trucking issues.

General Parcel Service, a package carrier based in Jacksonville, Fla., that spawned Transit Group of Atlanta in June 1997 and was spun off to a new management group a few months later, has merged with Bank Air Courier of Columbia, S.C., and Anderson Armored Car/Courier Division in Anderson, S.C., and has adopted a new name — Momentum Logistics.

Germany’s state-owned postal service, which has spent more than $2 billion in the last year acquiring freight transportation companies, announced it will shell out another $580 million for Royal Nedlloyd’s European land transport and distribution businesses.

Western Star Trucks is pinning its hopes for growth on a bid to make new inroads into the owner-operator and small- to medium-fleet markets — and the company’s executives say weight reductions will be the key to success.