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Two well-known trucking CEOs announced that they will step aside at the end of 2014.

Contentious union organizing battles are continuing this week with representation elections at Con-way Freight and FedEx Freight.

Omnitracs said it has completed its acquisition of XRS Corp. for about $178 million and plans to tightly integrate the business into its main operations.

Truck-driver training schools are the obvious place for fleets to look for new drivers, but the recruiting challenge for small trucking companies is being made more difficult by underwriter standards, insurance and fleet executives said.

Those sifting last week’s state election results for clues about the future of transportation issues may find more contradictions than answers.

The job of transporting an Ebola victim’s personal property and waste from the hospital to the landfill is frightening to the average person considering so little is known about the contagious deadly disease.

Diesel’s national average pump price continued to drop last week, falling 1.2 cents to $3.623 a gallon, while retail gasoline slid below the $3 mark for the first time in almost four years, the Department of Energy reported.

More than 100 groups that are concerned about the direction of newly contentious West Coast port contract talks asked President Obama to name a federal mediator to foster a settlement. 

The trucking industry added 3,900 jobs in October, and the unemployment rate edged down to 5.8%, declining for the third consecutive month, the Labor Department reported on Nov. 7.