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Although the current freight system has performed very well over the years, enabling our country’s businesses to import and export their goods relatively inexpensively, the honeymoon could be over if we don’t begin to seriously plan for the future.

The Department of Transportation is under a congressional mandate to come up with a list of protocols for building such a network by 2001. These 17 standards are considered essential in ensuring that the computer-based systems and the equipment that uses them are “interoperable” — that can be interconnected no matter where they are or who runs them.

Shipments of trailers and chassis continued to slide through May, dropping 14.4% below their levels for the same five months during the record-breaking year of 1998.

Ronald J. Conway has been named president of CSX Transportation in the first of a series of executive changes at both the corporate and subsidiary levels of CSX.

North American Van Lines confirmed having discussions with London-based NFC plc regarding a transaction involving Allied Van Lines and Pickfords Van Lines.

CSX and Norfolk Southern, the railroads that embarked on an ambitious journey to break up Conrail's freight monopoly, are only now finding service levels approaching adequate levels.

As Class 8 tractors sell at a record pace in order to meet heavy demand, companies that sell components to truck makers have seen their sales and earnings lifted to new heights.

In the news this morning: Rail, truck legislation remains stalled; DOT drops plans to restrict information on carrier finances; and Transit tax would help truckers, Florida officials say.

This afternoon's headlines: USFreightways stock up on Preston closure; 46 Con-Way drivers heading for Truck Driving Championships; and Federal court ruling leaves EPA wheezing.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court says police did not violate a trucker's constitutional rights when they seized his radar detector after his truck caused a fiery 1995 crash that killed three people.