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The Department of Transportation’s inspector general said that information the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration uses to track trucking companies was so “poor” that he questioned the agency’s request for funds to upgrade its computer system.

A tentative business recovery that gathered steam in 2003 and now appears to be pushing the limits of freight-hauling capacity boosted revenue and profits for most, but not all, of the carriers on the 2004 edition of the Transport Topics 100 list of the largest U.S. and Canadian for-hire carriers.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. Mergers and acquisitions were the primary moving force behind the changes in the trucking industry last year, as reflected in our 2004 TT 100 ranking of for-hire carriers that is included in this issue of Transport Topics.

American Trucking Associations urged businesses not to use data from SafeStat, the government’s system for tracking motor-carrier safety records, to make decisions or company comparisons because the data may be inaccurate.

Railroads have failed to promptly and accurately report hundreds of accidents at grade crossings over the past eight years, the New York Times reported in a two-part series published July 11 and July 12.

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Con-Way Transportation Services Inc. said Wednesday it would allocate $181 million this year to purchase additional tractors, trailers and forklifts to accommodate growth at its four regional less-than-truckload companies.

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Housing starts in the United States fell 8.5% in June to the lowest level in a year, and a sign of future construction also fell significantly, the Commerce Department said Tuesday.

A little more than five weeks after the Supreme Court cleared the way for the government to allow Mexican trucks to deliver in the United States, industry and government officials told Transport Topics some significant barriers remained to opening the border anytime soon.