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The road to supply chain efficiency is a well-traveled route, often taking companies through major enterprise planning and execution software purchases. Yet maximizing these investments to better deliver on customer service commitments and improve operational efficiency often depends on data outside the enterprise and beyond the domain of any enterprise resource planning or supply chain management system.

Click here to write your own Letter to the Editor.Who should listen to a driver’s personal needs, gripes and excuses if it not his dispatchers.

Two Fed Officials High On Recovery • CBO Projecting $5 Billion Surplus • Truck Makers Don't Expect Sales Surge Before October • New Study Links Cancer, Diesel Smoke • And more...

LAS VEGAS — G. Clifton Parker took over as new chairman of the Truckload Carriers Association, which adjourned its annual meeting here Wednesday morning after two administration officials canceled closing appearances.

LAS VEGAS — Osama bin Laden’s al Qaida network continues to pose a real threat to the United States — including a nuclear danger where trucks could be used as a weapon — but trucking company managers and drivers can also play a significant role in defending the nation’s safety.

The U.S. economy showed some signs of improvement in January and early February, the Federal Reserve said in a report released Wednesday.

WASHINGTON — U.S. officials say that information the trade community routinely compiles is indispensable in preventing terrorists from slipping bombs, weapons or other material on shipping containers, but trucking representatives want assurances that the information voluntarily supplied to the government will not be misused.

A measure of the U.S. services sector jumped sharply in February, recovering from a slight dip in the previous month, a leading economic research group said Tuesday..

Even as the trucking industry struggles to climb out of a freight slump that took hold well before the recession hit the other sectors of the economy, a new danger threatens to hurt truck suppliers and buyers for years to come.

FedEx Express Adds Flights From Germany to U.S. • Justice, FTC Split Up Merger Authority • Bush Agrees to Raise Steel Tariffs • Missouri's First Biodiesel Pump Opens at Gas Station • And more...