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Click here to write your own Letter to the Editor. The lack of security at truck terminals, seaports and nearly every place that trucks deliver is a concern for lawmakers and all U.S. citizens, but the greatest security concern is from normal practices of many (if not most) U.S. trucking companies today.

Greenspan Praises U.S. Financial System • California Wraps Up Hazmat Training Program • International Truck to Eliminate 400 Jobs • And more....

White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said Tuesday afternoon that tests have confirmed the presence of anthrax at an off-site mail screening facility used to sort mail coming into the White House, news services reported.

One of the bitter ironies for trucking these days is that the sharp drop in fuel prices has come largely because economic activity has slumped so badly.

The U.S. index of leading economic indicators fell 0.5% in September, its largest decline in more than five years, Bloomberg said.

Truckers Eye High-Tech Solutions • Officials Need Access to Wireless Communications • Firms Wait for Wireless to Take Hold • And more...

A trailer carrying fertilizer and pesticides that touched off a nationwide hunt when it was reported stolen last week, has been recovered, undamaged in Hillside, N.J., ABC News reported.

USFreightways Reports Lower 3Q Earnings • Congress Eyes Transportation Projects to Boost Economy • Gasoline Prices Still Falling, Lundberg Says • And more....

The national average price for diesel fuel continued its steady decline, falling 3.5 cents per gallon to $1.318 –- its lowest price since mid-January of 2000, according to the Department of Energy.

Two Washington, D.C.-area postal workers have died of what officials are calling the second and third known fatalities from the recent anthrax mailings, the Associated Press reported.