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Trucking industry veteran Paul James has purchased Hiner Transport of Huntington, Ind., from company founders ºÚÁϳԹÏÍør and Marge Hiner for an undisclosed amount.

Ryder System named Gregory T. Swienton, a former executive of Burlington Northern Santa Fe, to be president and chief operating officer of the Miami-based transportation management company.

Undercover police in Miami stopped an alleged truck hijacking by killing a suspect and arresting two men believed to be his accomplices.

Figures on logistics costs, widely followed by transportation professionals and trucking analysts on Wall Street, turn out to be wrong because of a missing factor in the formula, acknowledges the author of those numbers.

Fifty-five NationsWay Transport Service employees, laid off by the carrier's bankruptcy closure, have sued the company's management to recover lost wages other reimbursements they claim are owed to them.

Ohio state police arrested two testing examiners and a third suspect in Columbus for selling commercial driver licenses.

Yellow Corp. found a Midwest and Northeast anchor for its emerging nonunion regional trucking network. It is Jevic Transportation, a publicly owned regional and inter-regional less-than-truckload and truckload carrier based in Delanco, N.J.

By the end of this month, the Supreme Court is expected to rule on three cases that could change who gets to drive commercial trucks in the United States.

Hours of service takes on a whole new meaning to people like Rodger Blanco and Rodney Garrison. Blanco is the owner of Ag-Mart Produce. Garrison is his maintenance and transportation supervisor. Long hours are the rule, not the exception, for both men and their equipment, said Garrison.

Figures on logistics costs, widely followed by transportation and logistics professionals and trucking analysts on Wall Street, turn out to be wrong because of a missing factor in the formula, acknowledges the author of those numbers.