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Parts of U.S.-Canada Border Disappearing • Ohio Law Enforcement Seeks Funds for Sniper Investigation • Transit Systems Increase Security • DOE Studying Trucking Waste to Yucca Mountain • And more...

House Highway Bill Contains Billions in Business Tax Breaks • Import Prices Rise for Sixth Straight Month • DOT Unveils Grants to Boost Safety-Belt Use • Report: Administration Upset With HOS Exemptions • And more...

The Department of Transportation said Tuesday its transportation services index rose 0.8% in January to 121.4, the highest level in its 14-year history.

The average price of gasoline rose 2.2 cents to set another record while the average retail national price of diesel fuel increased for the seventh time in the past eight weeks, the Department of Energy reported Monday.

A pair of rules the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration published last week would change the way drivers of longer combination vehicles are trained and how all drivers get hired.

After a drop in January, freight volumes rebounded in February as American Trucking Associations’ seasonally adjusted Truck Tonnage Index rose 1.8% to 154.9.

Price of Oil Rises on Middle East Violence • Planned Jobs Cuts Drop to Nine-Month Low in March • Cummins Says Demand for Engines Increasing • Tennessee Continues Crackdown on Speeding Truckers • And more...

The Institute for Supply Management said Monday its non-manufacturing index rose to a record 65.8 in March from 60.8 the month before.

The California Air Resources Board said it agreed with diesel engine makers on what the agency called a voluntary plan to upgrade emissions reduction software.

The Transportation Security Administration announced April 1 that it was delaying implementation until 2005 of its regulation that would have required fingerprint-based background checks of hazardous materials drivers this year.