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The first big step toward making the nation’s highways safer is getting the principal parties at the same forum, talking about the problems caused by the rapidly and continually growing volumes of traffic moving over a much more slowly growing network of roads. After that comes the search for solutions.

Most small fleet owners face an agonizing decision: go it alone or sell out. Some are forced to consider a third option: get out of the business.

Danzas shareholders approved the $1.1 billion sale of their company to the German post office, Deutsche Post, creating one of the world’s largest freight transportation groups.

PARIS — Volvo AB has broken off negotiations to acquire its Swedish rival, Scania.

A vote by the European Union to reduce aircraft noise by banning the use of some Boeing 727 aircraft has international air freight carriers and the U.S. Congress up in arms.

Top North American railroads are determined to break trucking’s stranglehold on Mexico’s international and domestic freight.

DHL Airways of Redwood City, Calif., is joining with the U.S. Postal Service to provide guaranteed two-day delivery service from 11 U.S. cities to western Europe.

USF Logistics said it has acquired Processors Unlimited Co., a company that handles product returns and other reverse logistics services to the grocery and drug industry.

A federal appeals court has upheld the federal motor carrier safety ratings system, rejecting trucking’s claims that the process is “arbitrary and capricious” and based on unsound methodology.