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It is incumbent on distribution managers and executives to keep abreast of proposals and to let government regulators understand what tougher rules could really mean to their businesses and to the economy.

U.S. Customs has showed it was serious about enforcing new rules requiring 24 hours' notice before goods bound for the United States were loaded aboard ships in foreign ports.

Roadway Corp., parent to Roadway Express, has announced a number of management changes.

Only days after the International Brotherhood of Teamsters announced that 95 percent of its voting members had voted to authorize a strike, the union and the nation's largest unionized motor carriers averted the threatened stoppage and agreed on a new five-year contract.

Air freight will make a modest rebound this year all the way back to 1997 shipment levels, says the Colography Group.

U.S. Customs officials have unveiled plans for tightening security on international air cargo movement.

A federal appeals court has ruled that the Department of Transportation must prepare a full environmental impact statement and Clean Air Act conformity determination before it can open the U.S. border to Mexican motor carriers.