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A hurricane watch was posted for the Texas coast on Monday as Tropical Storm Claudette moved toward the United States, news services reported..

Regardless of the nature of a motor carrier’s operation, in today’s highly competitive transportation business environment trucking companies of all types and sizes are increasingly relying on integrated information systems to help develop and ensure a competitive advantage..

As several major groups last week joined calls for the government to delay fast-approaching deadlines for criminal background checks of hazardous materials drivers, a spokesman for one agency said the government was weighing that issue.

Wholesale prices rose 0.5% in June, the first increase in three months, but excluding the volatile food and energy sectors, the so-called core producer price index declined 0.1%, the Labor Department reported Friday.

President Bush named a new acting administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday, promoting Marianne Lamont Horinko to replace Linda Fisher.

Illinois has begun temporarily barring heavy trucks from using some rest stops along toll roads - even though motorists may still stop there - as the state's toll agency and vendors rebuild a series of on-highway "oasis" stops.

The Federal Communications Commission has mandated development of a national enhanced wireless 911 network — or E911 — by 2005. Such a network, experts say, would mean that public safety call centers across the United States would be able to locate exactly cellular telephone users making emergency calls..

Price of Crude Rises on Storm Concerns • Suit Alleges CF Didn't Give Enough Termination Notice • Federal-Mogul Names McClure New CEO • AAR Reports Intermodal Loads Up 11.2% • And more...

The number of Americans filing applications for state unemployment benefits rose by 5,000 to 439,000 in the week ended July 5, the Labor Department reported Thursday..

Nine months after the nation’s third-largest less-than-truckload carrier declared bankruptcy, tightening capacity and pumping up freight volumes for surviving carriers, analysts and fleets said those gains were being diluted by the weak economy and by turf wars for regional freight that created excess capacity.