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An ailing truck-making subsidiary of Nissan Motor Co. will shut down an assembly plant in Japan and cut about 25 percent of its work force in a stepped-up restructuring drive, a major Japanese newspaper said Thursday.

TT File PhotoThe fate of James P. Hoffa (pictured, middle) is in the hands of an election appeals master. Kenneth Conboy heard appeals this week from challenger Tom Leedham and representatives of the TDU to block Hoffa’s election as Teamsters president.

A group of California law firms said it will sue diesel engine manufacturers on behalf of truckers for damages resulting from the deal to settle alleged violations of the Clean Air Act.

There’s a new trucking lobbyist on the block, and his name is Joe Hart.

TT File PhotoThe South Carolina Department of Transportation is considering putting tolls on its Interstates to make up for $9.4 billion shortfall in highway maintenance funding.

An Oklahoma state senator wants to finance railroad growth by taxing truckers at the gas pump.

Maine Gov. Angus King is less than enthused by an alternative advanced by three Republican senators to the 5 cent gasoline tax increase he supports.

Federal trucking regulators will hold a conference this spring on new eye-based technology to measure driver alertness.

Tax breaks provided railroads for a quarter of a century in exchange for improvements to their lines should be reduced, the South Dakota House decided Tuesday.

Transport Topics Editor Howard S. Abramson and national affairs correspondent David Barnes recently interviewed Edward Hamberger, president of the Association of American Railroads.