Trucking News

LEASEWAY TRANSPORTATION CORP. (Cleveland) - Anthony J. Kosak was named president and chief operating

A state legislative committee is scheduled to vote today on a bill calling for a major hike in Calif

James R. Wolfe, chairman and chief executive officer of CNW Corp., died Monday afternoon of cancer.

Racketeering and fraudulent rate making charges were added this week to a sweeping civil antitrust s

Kenan Transport Co.'s second quarter earnings fell to $623,000, or 27 cents a share, from 712,000, o

State Transportation Commissioner J.William Burns has announced the award of a $53 million contract

Better management information systems and easier entry into new markets have sparked the growth of t

P.A.M. REPORTS DROP IN INCOME FOR QUARTERTONTITOWN, Ark. - P.A.M. Transportation Services In

Federal transportation officials will struggle to craft a comprehensive random drug testing program

The name of a Teamster leader quoted in a Wednesday story on negotiations with Airborne Freight Corp

Robert Farris believes growing traffic congestion may one day force the government to charge motoris

The decision by Sears, Roebuck and Co. to sell appliances made by other companies will mean more buc

Kirk Dornbush, chairman and chief executive officer of Southeastern Bonded Warehouses Inc. in Atlant

New Teamsters union President William J. McCarthy replaced two of the labor group's five conference

Transporting Dangerous Goods By Air, two-day seminar, Aug. 10-11. Radisson Inn Airport, Greater Cinc

Australian truckers have warned that they will again use their rigs to blockade the country's highwa

A barge-shipping industry group - which says drought may cost the industry up to $200 million - want

American Freight System Inc. is closing its northeastern trucking operations and paring its southeas

NAVISTAR INTERNATIONAL TRANSPORTATION CORP. (Chicago) - Roy S. Roberts was named vice president and

TRUCKING FIRM TO END MOST NORTHEAST SERVICEOVERLAND PARK, Kan. - Ailing American Freight Sys

The sudden acceleration this year of large tonnage shipments of garbage and other solid waste from N

American Trucking Associations ripped the federal government for developing a truck driver licensing

ABF Freight System Inc. is asking the Teamsters union for a 15 percent employee wage cut as part of

Analysts and competitors say they are still trying to figure out how to read the Itel-Henley-Americ

Ontario truckers are determined to continue their legal and political onslaught against government a

Despite its strategic location as a crossroad between Europe, Asia and North America, Alaska's local

PLM International Corp. expects the third version of its equipment fund partnership to get a double

Intermodal containers are backing up at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach as some independent

A prominent New Jersey law firm is still awaiting a court decision that will decide whether it's dis

RYDER SYSTEM REPORTS INCREASE IN INCOMEMIAMI - Ryder System Inc. reported second quarter inc

EARNINGS, REVENUE UP AT UNION PACIFICNEW YORK - Union Pacific Corp. reported second quarter

Several more top Teamsters officials are expected to be replaced as new President William McCarthy r

Intermodal container movements at the neighboring ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach were being slo

Under current European regulations a British trucker hauling a cargo to Greece cannot pick up or dis

William J. McCarthy, newly named president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, is threate

Roadway Services Inc. will not merge Viking Freight Inc. into any of its trucking subsidiaries nor w

XTRA CORP. MAKING CHANGESBOSTON - XTRA Corp. is selling one division, keeping another, and e

The trucking industry is asking the Interstate Commerce Commission to change two tariff-filing proce

Two private trucking associations have formally merged into a new trade group representing more than

CONSOLIDATED FREIGHTWAYS INC. (Menlo Park, Calif.) - Willard H. Scherrer Jr. was promoted to senior