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Despite opposition from trucking groups and other users of diesel fuel, the Minnesota State House and State Senate passed a bill requiring the use of biodiesel additives in any diesel fuel sold in the state.

The 20th century U.S. model of funding and managing highways produced the world’s best highway system. But that system is now showing its age.

Click here to write your own Letter to the Editor. e in the trucking industry have been hearing a lot about various states wanting to get trucks off of local roads and onto toll roads.

LAS VEGAS — Truckload carriers had but a single Class 8 tractor to gaze upon during their annual meeting here March 3-6, as the steel and rubber that used to dominate exhibit floors have given way to computer software and hand-held wireless devices.

February’s 0.3% rise in retail sales, as reported Wednesday by the Commerce Department, was the largest jump in four months but still short of the 1% analysts had been expecting, Bloomberg News reported.

Senate Rejects Fuel Economy Standards • Greenspan Says Business Investment Key to Recovery • Navistar's Credit Rating Downgraded • UPS, Teamsters to Resume Negotiations • And more...

TRW Rejects Northrop Offer Again • CEOs Plan Communications Network • UMass Uses Biodiesel to Meet Environmental Requirements • Iris-Recognition Test to Begin at Some Airports • And more...

The month of March has brought plenty of signs that the U.S. economy may be well along on its recovery from the 2001 recession. But it also brought plenty of indications that recovery is no bed of roses for trucking.

Some freeways may soon give way to tollways as cash-strapped states turn to entrepreneurs and private investment capital to build highways, bridges and tunnels to ease congestion and expand highway capacity.

Federal-Mogul Completes $23 Million Sale of Light Unit • Celadon to Purchase Some Assets of Foothill Corp. • International Oil Group Sees Higher Prices • Oregon Needs Millions for Bridge Repairs • And more...