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Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee faces an uphill struggle to pass his interstate highway improvement plan in the House without some help to speed up improvements on other roads.

Skyway Freight Systems has created two new business units, Charles Lounsberry, Skyway’s chief executive officer, announced.

Cadec Corp., formerly part of the Cummins Engine Co., announced it has become an employee-owned company.

The Oregon Trucking Associations thinks the 1999 session of the state legislature offers its best chance in years to win repeal of Oregon’s weight-distance tax.

Union Pacific Railroad and Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Co. will coordinate their dispatch operations covering Southern California, Kansas City and the Powder River Basin in Wyoming.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Senate Transportation Chairman Evan Frasure wants to lower the state gas tax by up to four cents, which would reduce the Department of Transportation's budget by as much as $32 million at a time when the state remains pressed to meet backlogged highway needs.

Freightliner Corp. and its parent company, Daimler-Benz AG, claim that in 1991 the Environmental Protection Agency explicitly condoned the same electronic emissions controls that the agency later called “defeat devices,” forcing U.S. diesel engine makers into a punishing settlement for alleged violations of the Clean Air Act.

The battle over which federal agency gets jurisdiction over truck safety took a new twist last week with the announcement of a second set of congressional hearings on the issue.

The railroad industry won’t take action to change the federal size and weight limits on trucks, as long as trucking doesn’t move to increase the allowable maximums, Association of American Railroads President Edward Hamberger said.