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Transportation groups are coalescing around familiar priorities: safety, stable highway funding and efficient integration of emerging technologies.

Port of Los Angeles Executive Director Gene Seroka stressed that while cargo flows remain intact, the broader operating environment has become more unpredictable.

The ISM gauge of prices paid for manufacturing inputs climbed another 7.8 points to 78.3, remaining at the highest since mid-2022.

Retail sales rose a better-than-expected 0.6% in February. There is a concern that Americans squeezed by years of elevated inflation will cut spending further.

Financial markets muddled through the first two months of the year. Then came the war in Iran.

With crude oil surpassing $100 a barrel, stopgap measures are helping, but they're not adding up to enough oil to replace what's stranded, experts say.

Stocks are rushing higher worldwide, and oil prices are easing April 1 as hopes build that the war with Iran could end soon.

The groups said that to ensure new carriers operate more efficiently, a stronger, prevention-focused program should continue to guide FMCSA’s safety strategy.

Oil declined March 31 after Iran and the U.S. signaled openness toward a resolution in the conflict that’s upended global energy shipments.

President Donald Trump on March 31 called on other nations to wrest control of the Strait of Hormuz as Iran maintained missile fire across the Persian Gulf.