In a perfect transportation world, trains, planes, ships and trucks work flawlessly in concert to move people and freight across the country.

The fate of James P. Hoffa is in the hands of an election appeals master.

United Road Services is putting together the first national nonunion auto hauling and towing network..

Every night just after 11:30 p.m., more than 9,000 part-time workers flood into the FedEx Super Hub for what is perhaps the greatest transportation show on earth. Over the next five hours, 160 planes will descend upon the site, unloading an estimated 1.5 million pieces of mail and reloading to take off for destinations throughout the world.

The Teamsters union staged a two-hour rally in front of the National Labor Relations Board in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday to protest terms of a proposed settlement between the board and Overnite Transportation Co.

Twice this decade, Congress passed legislation to encourage development of regional transportation policies.

United Road Services is putting together the first national nonunion auto hauling and towing network. Since completing a stock offering in May, URS has acquired more than a dozen companies.

TT File PhotoThe fate of James P. Hoffa (pictured, middle) is in the hands of an election appeals master. Kenneth Conboy heard appeals this week from challenger Tom Leedham and representatives of the TDU to block Hoffa’s election as Teamsters president.

FedEx is absolutely, positively in the freight business.

Two of the best-known names in the chemical hauling business are about to disappear.