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BALTIMORE — The Transportation Security Administration will issue security guidelines by Sept. 30, 2003, for screening motor carrier cargo and protecting against the threat of terrorism, a TSA official said last week.

BALTIMORE — Planning for the possibility a company's truck may be used in a terrorist attack is a necessity, but it would not necessarily break the bank, security planning experts on a panel said last week.

Some larger trucking companies are trying to capitalize on the appetite for intermodal shipping by offering customers the flexibility to shift easily between a purely truck movement and a truck-rail mixture.

The prices paid by U.S. consumers rose just 0.3% in October, led by increases in energy costs, the Labor Department reported Tuesday.

Port Truckers Seek Review of Truck Delays in New York and New Jersey • Delaware River Toll Commission to Start Toll Increase Soon • DOT Hands Out $98.9 Million for Emergency Infrastructure Repairs • DOT Announces Tire-Labeling Rule • And more ....

The silver lining in the ruins of the past two years for the trucking business is beginning to show itself in the form of freight rate hikes.

The board that governs the International Registration Plan gave Oklahoma officials until January to come up with a plan to reimburse other states for revenue lost because of the Oklahoma Tax Commission’s truck-registration scandal.

Nebraska Town Bans Compression Brakes • Better Engine Sales to Reduce Caterpillar's Layoffs • Werner Sells Share of Logistics Partnership to J.B. Hunt • Crude Oil Prices On Concern About Iraq's Inspection Response •

Study Shows New Diesel Engines Cleaner Than Natural Gas • Toyota to Lease Fuel-Cell Cars to Japan • SkyBitz Lands Growth Capital •.

Mobile communications provider Aether Systems Inc. announced it is now offering GeoTracs, a satellite-based system for monitoring untethered trailers and other assets.