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The producer price index, which tracks payments to factories, farmers and other producers, rose 0.4% in August on higher costs for energy and good, the Labor Department reported Friday..

FedEx, UPS Awarded New Hong Kong Cargo Flights • Mineta Urges Passage of Transportation Reauthorization Bill • Preliminary Consumer Sentiment Index Falls • Economists Predicting Strong Second Half of Year • And more...

CINCINNATI — The Technology and Maintenance Council is studying what can be done to decrease corrosion on trucks and trailers caused by ice-clearing and dust-settling chemicals on highways.

Two years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, American Trucking Associations President Bill Graves said the trucking industry was spending hundreds of millions of dollars to heighten security to a level “that we have never seen in our industry.”

The number of Americans applying for unemployment insurance in the week ended Sept. 6 rose to the highest level in two months, the Labor Department reported Thursday.

The Bush administration has asked for the Supreme Court's help in a fight over allowing Mexican trucks on U.S. roadways, the Associated Press reported.

Production at Mack Plant Suspended for Two Weeks • DaimlerChrysler to Invest in Chinese Truck Maker • U.S. Trade Deficit Widens in July • Dana CEO Magliochetti Is Hospitalized • And more...

Refinements rather than major makeovers are what most medium-duty truck manufacturers are offering in their 2004 models, although one manufacturer has redone its product line and all OEMs will sell new diesel engines built to comply with the federal government’s stricter emissions standards.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor.Trucking is starting to show growth that many economists associate with a true improvement in the U.S. economy, the Associated Press reported Wednesday.

The Department of Transportation will not stop requiring placards for hazardous material shipments, although the Department of 91��Ƶland Security wants to change or discontinue the familiar diamond-shaped labels because they could be a magnet for terrorists, DOT officials and others familiar with the issue said.