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UPS' Net Income Rises 24% • Caterpillar Earnings Rise on Record Sales, Revenues • Cummins' Profits Rise on Higher Truck Engine Sales • Swift's Profits Dip in 1Q • And more...

N.J. Officials Search for Missing Gasoline Tanker • Ridge Says New Task Force to Improve Security Coordination • FCC Votes to Boost Electronic Security for Containers • EST Says Its New Product Detects Odors

Chuck Lajeaunesse has been a transportation manager for 35 years and he knows what can happen to freight as it moves from the shipper’s loading dock to the receiver’s door and all the stops in between.

Despite the fact the Transportation Security Administration announced a delay in using fingerprints to check the backgrounds of truck drivers permitted to haul hazardous materials, some states’ pilot projects may begin the process before the new deadline.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. hich should come first — cargo theft legislation, which would entice people to quantify the cargo theft problem, or cargo theft statistics, which would justify the legislation? That’s the quandary now facing trucking.

Arkansas Best Reports 1Q Profit • Greenspan Says Threat of Deflation Is Over • Covenant’s Profits Slip in 1Q • C.H. Robinson Earnings Rise on Higher Truck Volumes • And more...

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. ccording to Ward's Communications, retail sales of Class 8 trucks rose 90.4% in March compared with a year earlier..

The average retail price of diesel fuel jumped 4.5 cents to $1.724 per gallon, edging closer to its all-time high set last spring, the Department of Energy reported Monday.

Pension-relief legislation that President Bush signed earlier this month probably could save less-than-truckload carriers with unionized employees from having to make additional pension payments, several trucking, pension-industry and congressional representatives said.

CNF Reports Higher Profits, Revenues • Celadon’s Net Income Increases in Fiscal 3Q • elphi’s Earnings Dip on Restructuring Costs • Mitsubishi Fuso Names New Chairman