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Truckers renew public assault on railroads
The trucking industry is back on the attack against railroads.

The American Trucking Associations will be running a series of anti-railroad advertisements in print publications aimed at congressional lawmakers who are writing a new highway spending bill to be funded by federal motor-fuels taxes paid into the Highway Trust Fund.

The purpose, said a trucking industry spokesperson, is two-fold.

One, the trucking industry wants to keep Highway Trust Fund dollars allocated to...

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Court wants probe into officer removals
AKRON, Ohio - A federal district court here has issued an order that four former UTU vice presidents removed from office by the UTU Executive Board be temporarily returned to office pending the outcome of litigation.

An immediate appeal was filed by the UTU with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

The district court did not rule that the executive board’s decision on the internal charges was improper or unlawful, but only that there were “substantial and difficult qu...

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