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A chapter ended at Transport Topics last week with the departure of longtime editor and reporter Thomas M. Strah, who embarked on a sabbatical that will include extensive travel and study abroad.

Regardless of the nature of a motor carrier’s operation, in today’s highly competitive transportation business environment trucking companies of all types and sizes are increasingly relying on integrated information systems to help develop and ensure a competitive advantage..

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The National Private Truck Council is poised to launch an online, interactive program that for the first time will enable member companies to compare their fleet safety performance with that of their peers.

Manufacturers of light- and medium-duty vehicles will have to provide emissions-component repair information to independent repair organizations, the Environmental Protection Agency said June 27.

DOT Selects Carriers for Hong Kong Cargo Service • Lundberg: Gasoline Prices Rise More Than a Penny • Truck Ban on Maine Bridge Could Be Permanent • Mitsubishi Fuso Recalling Almost 15,000 Trucks • And more...

A hurricane watch was posted for the Texas coast on Monday as Tropical Storm Claudette moved toward the United States, news services reported..

As several major groups last week joined calls for the government to delay fast-approaching deadlines for criminal background checks of hazardous materials drivers, a spokesman for one agency said the government was weighing that issue.

Wholesale prices rose 0.5% in June, the first increase in three months, but excluding the volatile food and energy sectors, the so-called core producer price index declined 0.1%, the Labor Department reported Friday.

President Bush named a new acting administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday, promoting Marianne Lamont Horinko to replace Linda Fisher.