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The Conference Board reported Tuesday that its consumer confidence index fell sharply this month, in another bad sign for future freight activity.

Allied Holdings Loss Widens as Auto Production Falls; Motor Cargo Reports Record Earnings; Manufacturers Announce More Job Cuts; Atlas Air Cites Record Revenues, Profit; and more...

A discussion among trucking and steamship executives about who has responsibility for the condition of intermodal road equipment could lead to a business, rather than legislative, solution for Virginia ports by July, state officials say.

Eighty thousand pounds at 80 miles per hour is unacceptable. Well, maybe on the Autobahn, but not on South Carolina’s Interstates. Not on crowded urban stretches.

Due to slow sales, truck maker Paccar reported first-quarter earnings of $44.3 million or 58 cents per share, well below last year’s $154.9 million or $1.98 per share. Net sales for the quarter were down 34% to $1.5 billion.

Verizon Would Extend Connecticut Long Distance; AT&T Wireless Posts Higher Revenues, Subscribers; and more ...

U.S. gasoline prices leaped by nearly 13 cents per gallon to $1.67 in the past two weeks, according to the Lundberg Survey of 8,000 gasoline stations, news services reported.

W.A. “Bill” Ward, president of Ward International Trucks in Mobile, Ala., was named Dealer of the Year by the American Truck Dealers division of the National Automobile Dealers Association.

Study Finds 80,000 Trucks Crossed Border in 1999; QCL Buys First of Several Ga. Fueling Centers; 3M to Cut 5,000 Jobs; Delta Pilots Reach Agreement With Management; and more...

BALTIMORE -- In his keynote address on Saturday, American Truck Dealers Chairman Stanley DeVore of Casper Truck Center pleaded with truck manufacturers to "stop changing the rules of the game."