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Caliber System is outsourcing EDI. The Akron, Ohio-based transportation and logistics giant recently signed a five-year deal with Sterling Commerce, Columbus, Ohio, whereby Sterling will assume responsibility for all of Caliber's electronic data interchange activities.

Although they are at least a year away from production, Allison Transmission introduced three automatic trans-missions, including two models that will expand the com-pany’s capacity in the medium-duty ranges. The third is for the light commercial truck market.

U.S. Xpress Enterprises filed suit against Employee Solutions Inc. after the Phoenix-based professional employer organization unilaterally terminated its contract with the Chattanooga, Tenn.-based trucking company.

A new service from United Parcel Service will take overnight letters off airplanes and send them flying through cyberspace.

Umthun Trucking Co., Eagle Grove, Iowa, has changed hands after 51 years of family ownership.

Consolidation is a fact of life in trucking.

Ruan, perhaps the biggest trucking name in Iowa, is working with it's home state Department of Transporta-tion to speed up the vehicle titling -- and maybe save a few trees along the way.

They are requesting changes in the Uniform Intermodal Interchange and Facilities Access Agreement, a binding agreement signed by thousands of companies involved in intermodal transportation. ew language being proposed would strengthen inspection standards and hold providers of intermodal containers, chassis and trailers liable for equipment break-downs.

The railroad industry wants more cooperation with the trucking industry, but that doesn't mean it will cease its campaign against bigger trucks.