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United Parcel Service Europe is considering a joint venture with archrival Deutsche Post, the German post office, to establish the first private, long-distance rail freight operation in Europe.

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.”

The proposed DOT budget for the next fiscal year calls for more highway spending but allocates most of a $1.5 billion windfall in motor fuel tax revenue to non-road spending.

TT PhotoThe congressional debate over motor carrier safety is heating up, with the announcement Wednesday for a series of hearings on the subject. Ground Transportation Subcommittee Chairman Tom Petri (R-Wis.) (pictured) said the hearings "will take a comprehensive and hard look at motor carrier safety."

Legislation to limit the Highway Commission’s authority to place toll booths on Interstates failed in committee.

Qualcomm Inc. announced it is cutting 700 jobs, or about 6% of its workforce, in response to slow sales and increased competition.

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and Japan’s Sumitomo Rubber Industries announced a global alliance.

TT PhotoFedEx is absolutely, positively in the freight business. Any doubt about the express carrier’s intent to compete head-on with less-than-truckload and air freight carriers was quickly dispelled during a recent interview with Kenneth A. May, its senior vice president of Air, Ground and Freight Services.

Representatives of car haulers and the Teamsters union exchanged contract proposals Feb. 5, kicking off negotiations on terms of a new National Master Automobile Transporters Agreement.