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New Truck Parking Spaces on I-85 Will Cut Idling • Qualcomm Declares Stock Split; Raises Dividend • Digital Dispatch to Buy Maddocks • Aether Says Sitton Extends Contract, Adds Units • And more...

J.B. Hunt's 2Q Earnings Rise • Werner Earns 27 a Share Cents in 2Q • OPEC Cancels Meeting; Will Increase Quotas Again • Profits Nearly Double at U.S. Xpress • And more...

Manufacturing in the Philadelphia region expanded at a faster pace in July than the month before on higher orders, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia said Thursday..

Industrial production fell 0.3% in June, the Federal Reserve said Thursday, the first decline since March.

The Labor Department said Thursday that producer prices fell 0.3% in June, the biggest drop in a year, reflecting declines in energy and food costs..

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. egarding the chassis bill before Congress and the story "Intermodal Group Adopts Plan for Voluntary Chassis Checks": You must first take a look at the interchange agreements that trucking companies must currently sign in order to use the ocean carriers’ equipment. They are biased totally in favor of the ocean carriers.

DALLAS — Economists and lending officials told trucking executives here that in a solidly growing economy it would be easier for trucking companies to borrow capital, as lenders accepted more risk and as more financial institutions returned to the market.

Landstar's 2Q Earnings Rise to Record • Old Dominion's Profits Top Its Guidance • N.Y. Fed's Factory Index Rises in July • Business Inventories Rise 0.4% in May • And more...

The Standard & Poor’s credit-rating agency said that fuel surcharges by trucking companies that it reviews have added an average of 14% to freight bills for truckload shipments and 7% for less-than-truckload hauls.

Retail sales in the United States fell 1.1% in June, the biggest drop since February 2003, the Commerce Department said Wednesday..