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The ripples from the impact of plummeting sales of new trucks spread wider last week as ArvinMeritor Inc., a major manufacturer of axles for heavy vehicles, announced plans to cut another 1,500 jobs, or about 4% of its workforce, from its payroll.

Online load-matching firm NTE laid off 18% of its workforce because company projections at the beginning of the year that it would go public have not materialized.

Workplace shootings, driver hours of service, ergonomic regulations and sexual harassment are among the issues on the agenda as trucking’s top labor specialists gather this week for the 14th annual conference of the North American Trucking Industrial Relations Association Nov. 12-15 in St. Petersburg Beach, Fla.

A number of trucking companies are fighting back against what they say is the practice by some towing operators of charging excessively high fees and holding freight “hostage” until the bill is paid.

Emery Worldwide Airlines and the U.S. Postal Service will terminate their Priority Mail contract Jan. 7, ending 13 months early what has been a tempestuous business relationship since its start in spring 1997.

When the E-Z Pass automated toll collection system is implemented on parts of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, it will be accessible by passenger cars only — for now.

Transportation holding company Intrenet Inc. continues to investigate its finances so that it can resume trading on Nasdaq’s small cap listings.

The calm that pervaded America after what was probably the closest presidential election in the nation’s history is a strong affirmation of our democratic institutions.

For decades, railroads have been trying to build their intermodal business at the expense of trucking. For decades, it hasn’t worked.

More Capitol Hill hearings on railroad freight services and rates are likely no matter which party controls Congress in the next session, but it remains to be seen whether sentiment for any level of re-regulation of the rail industry will grow.