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The chairman of the House Transportation Committee showed states exactly what they'd get if extra gas-tax money were sent to them instead being spent on other federal programs.

Eaton Corp. wanted a leadership role in industrial hydraulics and got it Monday with an agreement to buy Aeroquip-Vickers Inc. for about $1.7 billion.

The trucking industry should trade government-sought safety enhancements for the right to increase productivity, James Hebe, chief executive officer of Freightliner Corp. said Tuesday.

A report to the Kansas House Appropriations Committee at the end of January said that the idea of a tax increase for transportation met acceptance with everyone who spoke at 12 town hall meetings.

A 22-year-old Waianae man was arrested after trucks at a Honolulu rental company were torched for the second time.

South Dakota should scrap the sales tax on in-state trucking, the House Taxation Committee decided Tuesday.

Chancellor Corp., an equipment leasing and fleet management firm based in Boston, acquired Tomahawk Truck & Trailer Sales of Atlanta.

The Department of Transportation is making it easier to quantify its performance by including in its 2000 budget proposal a series of goals.

TT File PhotoWith almost $1.5 billion in unanticipated gas revenues coming in, the Clinton administration and the Republican-controlled Congress are already fighting over what to do with the extra cash. Some ideas include allocating funds for road construction, NHTSA safety programs and air quality improvements.

The railroad industry is not pressing for reductions in truck sizes or weights, nor is it taking a position on proposals to transfer jurisdiction over truck safety from the Federal Highway Administration to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.