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Integrating less-than-truckload, truckload, logistics and freight forwarding services into one company is incredibly difficult. But one company has done it successfully: USFreightways Corp.

United Parcel Service, the nation’s largest motor carrier, could owe hundreds of millions of dollars in back taxes and penalties based on a ruling by a U.S. Tax Court judge.

There's still no money and no definite route for the Interstate 69 project, but Texas politicians are pressing on to build the proposed NAFTA Highway.

It is a telling indication of how competitive trucking has become when you can still lose your shirt, even in a year with falling fuel prices and surging demand.

Proposals to create a federal Motor Carrier Administration were introduced in both houses of Congress amid a flurry of legislation to improve truck and bus safety.

As midnight strikes on Aug. 22, some trucking companies may be unable to find equipment near and far because of a handicap in old global positioning satellite receivers.

This afternoon's headlines: Viking Freight announces fuel surcharge; FDX-USF competition eats up in Puerto Rico; and Qualcomm to test product aimed at LTL carriers.

In the news this morning: Report shows accident patterns differ for trucks; Minority favors more spending on Va. roads; and Lines may leave Vancouver due to strike.

Proposals to create a federal Motor Carrier Administration were introduced in both houses of Congress amid a flurry of legislation to improve truck and bus safety.

Officials from several northeastern states and eastern Canadian provinces are discussing a perennial economic obstacle: the lack of an efficient east-west transportation link.