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The truck safety debate took a new course Thursday as the National Private Truck Council called on the DOT to focus enforcement on drivers and carriers with the worst safety records.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently recommended a nationwide smoke testing standard to avoid confusion among truck drivers traveling from state to state.

Older trailers will have to be retrofitted with reflective tape or reflectors within two years, under a final rule from the Federal Highway Administration.

Transit Group has acquired KAT Inc. of Chesterton, Ind., for $725,000 in cash and 812,000 shares of Transit Group common stock.

General Parcel Service 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.

Crouse Cartage Co. announced plans to eliminate its freight terminal and maintenance operations in Carroll, Iowa, and close an agency terminal in Fremont, Neb. Crouse is a subsidiary of TransFinancial Holdings.

Commerical Movers Inc. of Columbus, Ohio, has acquired Shaw/Kilgore Office Systems and will merge the business into a new division called CMI Installations.

More than 1,000 companies will exhibit their wares over 1 million feet of space as the annual Mid-America Trucking Show gets under way at Kentucky Fair & Exposition Center in Louisville, Ky.

Renault Chairman Louis Schweitzer arrived in Japan Thursday to sign a deal with Nissan that includes his company taking a 35 percent stake in the ailing Japanese carmaker, reports said.