The proposed Department of Transportation budget for the next fiscal year, starting Oct. 1, calls for more highway spending but allocates most of a $1.5 billion windfall in motor fuel tax revenue to non-road spending.

The railroads just can’t seem to cope with success.

Skyway Freight Systems has created two new business units, Charles Lounsberry, Skyway’s chief executive officer, announced.

Cadec Corp., formerly part of the Cummins Engine Co., announced it has become an employee-owned company.

The Oregon Trucking Associations thinks the 1999 session of the state legislature offers its best chance in years to win repeal of Oregon’s weight-distance tax.

Representatives from four ports have urged Congress to allot funds to help deepen and modify their facilities.

Bartlett Lifting Devices, a Chicago-based company, will become a division of Kalmar Industries USA, Ottawa, Kan., Kalmar announced last month.

The trucking industry should trade government-sought safety enhancements for the right to increase productivity, James Hebe, chief executive officer of Freightliner Corp. said Tuesday.

Trucking has faced the Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde of weather so far through the winter of 1998-99.

As the major engine manufacturers roll out their 1999 models, the only thing clear is that the equipment issues related to the companies’ settlements with the Environmental Protection Agency paint a muddy picture.