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CSX Transportation Inc. has asked a federal judge to strike down a new Vincennes ordinance regulating train traffic in the southwestern Indiana city.

U.S. Rep. John Ensign (R-Nev.) formally requested a recount of the closest U.S. Senate race in the nation, in which he lost to incumbent Democrat Harry Reid by 401 votes.

This year’s Capitol Christmas tree, a 50-foot Fraser fir, arrived Monday in Washington, D.C., powered by a Mack CH tractor. The 27-year-old tree was cut from the Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina.

Television and radio channel surfers in Nebraska are catching the first wave of an advertising campaign created by the Nebraska Motor Carriers Assn. to improve the industry’s image.

The completion of a $450 million highway from Alma to Fayetteville will be delayed until after January.

The Board of Equalization of California has decreased the state’s diesel sales tax for next year by 1.3 cents to 7.1 cents per gallon.

The Connecticut Department of Transportation is again asking motor carriers to re-route twin trailers around certain sections of the states highways during winter storms.

The 1998 National Truck and Bus Safety Summit collapsed just two weeks before its scheduled Dec. 6 start in Atlanta, after its sponsor, the Federal Highway Administration, abruptly canceled its participation.

Federal Express and its unionized pilots restarted stalled contract negotiations after the pilots promised not to strike during the peak holiday shipping season.