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FedEx Express Hybrid Trucks Begin Service • SBC, UPS in Wi-Fi Deal • Material Technologies to Inspect Los Angeles Bridges

Union Pacific Asks Some Customers to Use Alternatives • Saudi Arabia Blames Record Gasoline Prices on U.S. • WHO to Begin Campaign to Reduce Traffic Deaths • Drivers at USF Dugan Terminal Join the Teamsters • And more...

If you are running post-October 2002 EPA-compliant diesel engines, we want to know about your experiences. Have you had good results?

The House on Friday voted 357-65 in favor of a $275 billion highway and transit spending bill despite the threat of a presidential veto, news services reported..

Payrolls surged by 308,000 in March, the largest gain in nearly four years, but the unemployment rate rose to 5.7% from 5.6% as more people returned to the labor force to look for work, the Labor Department said Friday.

ARLINGTON, Va. — The head of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration told a major freight shippers’ group that the new driver hours-of-service rules would cut fatalities and related costs, but several audience members said the rules were raising their cost of doing business.

ARLINGTON, Va. — Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta urged freight shippers at the National Industrial Transportation League’s spring policy forum here to help trucking firms and other freight haulers to ease congestion.

Abraham: Bush May Suspend Clean Gasoline Requirements • Analyst Sees Tough Year Ahead as Trucking Costs Keep Climbing • AAR Reports Another Strong Week for Intermodal Loadings

The Institute for Supply Management said Thursday factory activity in March expanded at a faster pace than the previous month.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor.For the trucking companies that use our nation’s highways to carry freight, paying for those roads through a variety of fuel and other taxes is a part of doing business. Today, however, rising toll costs are also becoming a significant cost factor for motor carriers.