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Railroads urgently need federal help to cut costs and arrest the industry's declining profits, a top

The Maytag Co. has reduced its use of truck and piggyback transportation from its Iowa manufacturing

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

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

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

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

Transportation of spent nuclear fuel by truck and rail poses a much smaller risk to public safety th

Santa Fe Employees Get Lump-Sum OfferSanta Fe Railway has sent letters to the homes of nearl

The Supreme Court said rail labor unions did not have the right to appeal a controversial Interstate

Chicago & Northwestern Transportation Corp. announced the second of what probably will be a series o

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

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

Jamesbury Licensed To Sell ValvesPullman Leasing Co. has licensed Jamesbury Valve Corp. of W

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

''We're not the guys who call you on the phone during dinner to sell aluminum siding." Peter

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

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

The High Productivity Integral Train Project seminar June 23 at the American Congress Hotel in Chica

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Battling his way through airport traffic, the freight forwarder glanced at his watch and at the stac

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

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

Railroads operating computer management subsidiaries are small in number but big on ideas. I

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

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

For the week ended May 23 total piggyback freight hauled on the nation's major railroads equaled 10

Iowa Terminal Railroad To Sell 2 LocomotivesCHARLES CITY, Iowa - Iowa Terminal Railroad Co.

Significant shifts in the government policies toward the railroad industry will set the scene for a

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

New $28 million Burlington Northern bridge over Willamette River in Portland, Ore., will be the long

Chrysler Truck Sales Set Record in PeriodDETROIT - Chrysler Motors reported total truck sale

Pennwalt Offers Free Pseudo Steam EngineWYANDOTTE, Mich. - Pennwalt Corp., owner of the form

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

Reimposing government rate controls over railroads will accelerate declining industry earning trends

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