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Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. said Thursday that former Surface Transportation Board Chairman Roger Nober will join the railroad Jan. 1 as head of BNSF’s law department.

Diesel engine maker Cummins Inc. said Friday it will withdraw its stock listing from NYSE Arca Inc., formerly the Pacific Exchange. Its common stock will continue to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

Air and ocean freight forwarder UTi Worldwide reported in issuing preliminary third-quarter earnings that it will restate earnings going back three years due to an accounting error.

Trailer maker Wabash National Corp. said its board named Richard Giromini its new chief executive officer, effective Jan. 1.

U.S. payrolls rose jumped by 132,000 in November but the unemployment rate inched up to 4.5% from 4.4%, the Labor Department said Friday.

J.B. Hunt Transport Services said that the truckload company’s founder, Johnnie Bryan Hunt Sr., died Thursday at the age of 79.

The eight-week strike against Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. has caused some truck makers to switch brands, but has caused little dislocation and no delays for customers, according to truck and trailer manufacturers.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. nforcement against on-the-job truckers who violate Ohio’s new smoking ban that took effect Thursday morning is expected to be lax, but trucking industry officials said the law should be changed to exempt drivers, the Columbus Dispatch reported.

Logistics and delivery firm Dynamex Inc. reported first-quarter net income of $3.6 million or 34 cents a share, up from $3.2 million or 27 cents a year earlier.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. img src="http://www.ttnews.com/images/printeditiontag_new.gif" width=120 align=right>State trucking executives said they were hopeful American Trucking Associations would soon change the eligibility rules governing the annual National Truck Driving Championships to once again allow all state champions to compete.