CSX Corp. said its fourth-quarter profit fell from a year ago, largely due to a non-transportation-related writedown.
January 21, 2009BusinessSafetyGovernment
Senate Panel Approves LaHood as DOT Secretary
A Senate panel Wednesday approved Ray LaHood to be Secretary of Transportation, passing his nomination by President Obama to the full Senate, the New York Times reported.
January 22, 2009GovernmentBusinessSafetyFuel
EPA Won鈥檛 Delay 2010 Engine Rule
A top U.S. Environmental Protection Agency official said last week that the agency has 鈥渁bsolutely no intention鈥 of granting the request by truck and engine manufacturer Navistar Inc. for a two-year delay in implementing 2010 federal diesel emission standards for new heavy trucks.
January 19, 2009GovernmentBusinessTechnologyEquipmentSafety
Continued Growth of Multi-mode Transport Spurs Information Technology Systems
The information systems that support intermodal trucking companies are much like the business of intermodalism itself: complex, multi-headed and increasingly important to motor carriers.
January 19, 2009GovernmentBusinessSafetyFuel
EPA Pick Is 鈥極pen鈥 to Carbon Tax
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator-designate Lisa Jackson said she was 鈥渙pen to discussion鈥 of a carbon tax to limit greenhouse gas emissions and would immediately begin a review of the Bush administration鈥檚 denial of California鈥檚 request to regulate those emissions from automobiles.
January 16, 2009BusinessSafety
Rail, Intermodal Traffic Decline for Week
Rail and intermodal traffic fell for the week ended Jan. 10 from a year ago, the Association of American Railroads said.
January 16, 2009BusinessSafetyGovernment
TTNews.com Closed for Martin Luther King Day
Transport Topics Online will be closed Monday for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday. Please check back on Tuesday, Jan. 19, for the latest trucking and freight transportation news.
January 15, 2009GovernmentBusinessSafety
DOT Freight Transport Index Drops 2.4% in November
The Department of Transportation鈥檚 freight transportation services index fell 2.4% in November from a year earlier, DOT said Wednesday.
January 14, 2009BusinessSafetyGovernment
ATA Names 2009-2010 America鈥檚 Road Team
American Trucking Associations has named the 18 truck-driver captains of its 2009-2010 America鈥檚 Road Team.
January 14, 2009GovernmentBusinessSafety
Opinion: Assault on Independents Threatens Trucking
If you wanted to shore up a beleaguered industry, would you do it by creating a new threat? Of course not, but that鈥檚 exactly what some U.S. policymakers seem ready to do to the already devastated U.S. trucking industry.
January 13, 2009