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Associates Commercial Corp., one of the nation’s largest truck equipment finance companies, has purchased Transport Clearings, a leading provider of freight bill factoring services.

Diesel prices have edged up for two straight weeks but are unlikely to climb much higher in the near future before being pulled back down by oversupply.

More than 2,000 truck stop operators and suppliers are set to convene in Phoenix this week to discuss the changing face of their industry.

Attention truckers in Southern California: Be on the lookout for the California Highway Patrol and the California Trucking Association.

Amtrak announced four new business ventures that will take it deeper into the freight transportation business.

Executives of Norfolk Southern Corp. and National Railroad Passenger Corp., which operates Amtrak, say talks are under way to allow Norfolk Southern’s RoadRailer intermodal trains to use Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor between Washington, D.C., and northern New Jersey.

Overnite Transportation Co. said its revenue was above $1 billion in 1998 and its profits were the highest since 1994.

Enterprise Transportation Co. expanded its petrochemical hauling business by acquiring the trucking assets of Howell Transportation Services in Houston.

This is a test. What has 86% of the nation’s freight business, annual revenue of about $350 billion, employs almost 9 million people and can’t get the mother of all bureaucracies to give it its own office?