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Next time you think you’re running out of things to worry about, walk through the maintenance shop and check the bolt bins. There are enough potential disasters lurking there to give your corporate legal counsel ulcers.

For Erv Madsen, the mudslide that wiped out two miles of Highway 95 Oct. 16 is more than just an inconvenience. It could be enough to put him out of business.

Chalk up another huge month for Class 8 truck manufacturers.

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation is suing a trucking company to recover the $2.7 million damage caused to a section of Interstate 95 by a gasoline tanker crash.

Is intermodal worth the risk? “What risk?” protested two railroaders on a panel of logisticians discussing truck-rail movement of containers and piggyback trailers.

Shippers have been spending more on transportation and using more technology. They are dealing with fewer carriers and getting more for their money.

FDX Corp. named Joseph C. McCarty chief executive officer of FDX Global Logistics, a new organization that will include Caliber Logistics. He also will serve as CEO of Caliber Logistics.

A new report on hours-of-service regulations outlines five options with wide variations in the way they combine shift length, driving time, nondriving work time, sleep time and personal time.

Everyone who’s anyone in America’s vast distribution network has computer-based information and communication systems. These days you can’t do business without them. But in the words of one major player, “It’s not what you use but how you use it.”

The British Highways Agency has completed a feasibility study on dedicated, truck-only lanes on the island nation’s congested motorway system, and is now testing the idea.