Trucking News

ICG Makes Offer For Rail BondsThe Illinois Central Gulf Railroad said it made an offer to

TRUCKING INDUSTRY PRICING EXPERTS don't yet have a clear idea how many carriers will reject the prop

Improved driver training, more inspections and tougher safety enforcement are needed to combat the g

Three tanks of flammable gas exploded on a Harlem street Thursday, destroying the truck that was car

The Teamsters union blistered the Reagan administration over reports of a planned federal lawsuit ai

Rockwell Raises Share In Brazil Axle ProducerTROY, Mich. - Rockwell International Corp. said

Japanese truck makers are surer than ever that they stand to make a fortune in a market where U.S. t

There are significant obstacles to the federal government's reported plan to take control of the Int

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Truck makers and equipment manufacturers say they have so far seen little change in ordering pattern

NYC Moves to Slow Speeding Tow TrucksPrivate tow trucks no longer will be able to race to ac

The North American performance of trucking operations of Thomas Nationwide Transport, Australia's tr

JFK Airport Chamber of Commerce, luncheon meeting, June 11, Viscount Hotel, JFK Airport. Contact Eil

Recent moves in the trailer and container leasing business are starting to look like a game of music

Truckers operating in the Midwestern states will ask government regulators to grant a 2.5 percent hi

At 91 on-ramps along six expressways radiating out of Chicago, drivers come to a stoplight that blin

Gelco Corp. reported third quarter net earnings increased to $1 million, or 14 cents a share, for it

Bids Mount in Program To 'Rebuild' New YorkALBANY, N.Y. - The New York State Department of T

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Heavy truck sales continued to show muscle in May with double-digit gains over sales a year ago, pre

Clark Equipment Co., which has struggled for survival for most of the 1980s, has another kind of fig

The following index charts weekly changes in motor carrier tonnage originatingfrom 49 produc

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XTRA Corp. said it has agreed to acquire the fleet of piggyback trailers now operated by Availco Sys

CWT's Management Hopes to Buy GerberFREMONT, Mich. - Gerber Products Co. announced that the

THE THREE MAJOR AEROSPACE COMPANIES THAT ARE PARTNERS in the European Airbus Industrie consortium ma

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TNT North America Inc. announced the purchase of a specialty truck line using a patented trailer to

Truck lines operating in the Eastern Central United States approved a proposal to hike freight price

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The deadlines are set and the rules are in place, but the success of the single commercial driver's

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New England Agrees To Oversize RulesCAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Five of six New England states, actin

A table accompanying an article in Thursday's edition on public stock offerings misspelled the name

Kentucky will raise its speed limit to 65 miles per hour on rural sections of interstate highways Ju

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If you have read the financial news pages casually in recent years, you might think that not much wa

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The Aluminum Company of America says it will increase prices of aluminum beverage can body stock, en

Most of the nation's largest truckload carriers say they will abide by the 55- mile-per-hour speed l