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Federal Express said its plans to restructure operations could make the company less dependent on its 3,500 unionized pilots, who have refused to work overtime.

The head of the Ohio Trucking Assn. is among the witnesses scheduled to testify next Monday at a hearing in Middleburg Heights, Ohio, on a planned 10% increase in tolls on the Ohio Turnpike.

Trism Inc. is trying to grow its trucking business by targeting new markets and joining with other companies to provide transportation services.

Federal Express Corp. pilots stopped working overtime Monday and their union sent out strike authorization ballots in efforts to get contract talks with the cargo airline going again.

The International Energy Agency forecasts that oil demand this year and next will be "lower than previously anticipated."

State and local governments may apply for a share of up to $140 million this year for improvements to highway corridors and border facilities.

FRP Properties announced that Paul James resigned from his post as president and chief operating officer of its Transportation Group to pursue other interests.

Southwood J. "Woody" Morcott, chairman and chief executive officer of Dana Corp., Toledo, Ohio, is the 1998 Automotive Industry Leader of the Year.

A California truck driver has been charged in the gruesome slaying of a woman and is suspected to have been involved in other killings.