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Consolidated Freightways is the first trucking company to outsource a large segment of its information technology operations to IBM Global Services, a unit of International Business Machines Corp.

The Federal Highway Administration is proposing changes to driver medical examination forms that trucking interests say would let physicians perform additional tests at their discretion.

A dispute over the medical exams that Canadian truck drivers need to work in the U.S. may result in a long-awaited reciprocity agreement between the two countries.

Yellow Corp. will expand its regional less-than-truckload service in the Pacific Northwest and the West with the acquisition of Action Express of Boise, Idaho.

Canadian-owned Trimac Transportation will merge its petroleum-hauling operations in Oregon and Washington with Harris Transportation Co. of Portland, Ore.

Flatbed carrier Boyd Bros. Transportation is going west.

It could have been the title of a new horror extravaganza from Steven King: “Killer Trucks.” Think of it. Maniacal, masked marauders perched behind the wheels of gigantic semis, preying on innocent VW bugs and station wagons full of smiling children. Unfortunately, “Killer Trucks” wasn’t playing at your neighborhood cinema, it was on the editorial page of the Washington Post.

A congressman from Washington’s Virginia suburbs and the Washington Post editorial page in recent days have been involved in a tag-team match smearing the trucking industry’s safety record.

While the ATA Management Conference & Exhibition produced no major policy pronouncements, there was considerable activity behind the scenes on a number of important issues.