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The Texas and U.S. departments of transportation have failed to provide adequate funding for sorely needed border infrastructure such as more roads to facilitate truck traffic that is growing rapidly because of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Sonja Wood, a local musician and social activist, wants to make Nova Scotia’s Highway 101, a heavily traveled trucking route, safer for commuters and truckers — and she is willing to go to any lengths to force the province into action.

The financial dispute over a federally mandated antilock brake system warning light is apparently being resolved, less

International Unveils High-Performance Trucks; Cannon Reports Larger Quarterly Loss; CSXT Joins RailMarketplace.com; U.S. Dec Inventories Up 0.1%; Wealthy Fight to Keep Estate Tax; and more...

President Bush’s swift agreement to open the U.S.-Mexico border to international truck traffic shows his commitment to trade between North America’s most populous neighbors and to promises made along the campaign trail.

Will the global supply chain continue to fuse and fortify? Or will the links be fractured — and business fortunes fractionalized — by shortsightedness.

E-Commerce May Target Logistics; Slowing Sales Could Curb New Wireless Products; Bird Deaths Could Limit Cell Tower Construction; AT&T Begins Marketing Broadband Ahead of Launch.

President Bush has announced his intention to nominate Michael P. Jackson, a former senior official at the American Trucking Associations, to be deputy secretary of transportation.

Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said Tuesday that risks to the U.S. economy continue on the downside but that a rebound should emerge once businesses work through an inventory glut.

AmeriQuest Buys FleetXchange.com; U.S. Customs Import System to Shut Down Briefly Feb. 17; Expeditors Earns 47 Cents/Shr; Morgan Drive Away Gets President; US&T Cuts Loss in Latest Quarter; Dana Has Slight 4Q Operating Profit, Cuts Jobs; Economy: Retail Sales, Greenspan Up; Fla. East Coast Has Lower 4Q Gain; and more...