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When Burlington Northern Santa Fe Co. decided to abandon two lines through rural Oklahoma, the state stepped in and paid $6.55 million to save the tracks from the scrap yard.

European truck drivers will be limited to a 48-hour work week if a proposal now being drafted by the European Union Commission in Brussels becomes law.

M.S. Carriers, Memphis, Tenn., agreed to purchase assets of Interstate Trucking Corp. of America, a dry van truckload carrier based in Merrill, Wis.

Trucking's most important federal agency, the Office of Motor Carriers, will stay where it is for the time being.

Everyone who’s anyone in America’s vast distribution network has computer-based information and communication systems. These days you can’t do business without them. But in the words of one major player, “It’s not what you use but how you use it.”

Shippers have been spending more on transportation and using more technology. They are dealing with fewer carriers and getting more for their money.

There’s a new partnership in truck manufacturing: Mack Trucks and Cummins Engine Co.

Congress was finally closing in on a $500 billion budget agreement as Transport Topics went to press late last week. And it’s about time.

The British Highways Agency has completed a feasibility study on dedicated, truck-only lanes on the island nation’s congested motorway system, and is now testing the idea.