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TT PhotoTruckers and shippers greeted this week’s postal rate increase with scorn, calling for changes in the way the Postal Service does business.

Old Dominion Freight Line said Tuesday that it had acquired selected assets of Skyline Transportation's less-than-truckload operation.

Responding to protests from commuters and legislators, the Maine Turnpike Authority met today to reconsider part of a toll increase scheduled to take effect Feb. 1.

A Teamsters union leader accused of violating campaign-finance laws during the 1995 governor's campaign has retired.

Arkansas Gov. Huckabee has made it official: he will seek a three cent-per-gallon increase in the state’s diesel fuel tax to pay for highway improvements.

Overnite Transportation Co. is expanding its regional truck service to all points in 35 states and adding as many as 1,200 next-day lanes from Texas to New England.

The anti-sprawl campaign unveiled by Vice President Al Gore Jan. 11 includes increased funding for congestion mitigation, transportation planning and mass transit programs, the Department of Transportation says.

Trucking this week launched a multi-faceted advertising campaign in an effort to build public opposition to a proposal by the Arkansas Highway Commission to toll three interstate highways.

Any effort to increase highway taxes must be tied to a crackdown on the overweight vehicles that are tearing up those roads, South Dakota Gov. Bill Janklow said Monday.