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Railroad holding company Kansas City Southern said it would spend $200 million in cash and stock to create a unified rail network that could haul freight from Mexico City to St. Louis.

Conn. Senate Votes to Postpone Ban on MTBE • Most IRP Sanctions Against Oklahoma Lifted • Number of Speeding Tickets Surge in California • Patriot Sells Property to Subsidiary • And more...

Sales at U.S. wholesalers increased twice as much as inventories in March, while the inventory-to-sales ratio, a measure of how long goods remain unsold, fell to a record-low of 1.21 months.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor.Rising fuel prices this spring rocked the trucking industry. It’s not enough that the economy is slow and security costs have increased, record-high diesel made for a real misery hat trick.

A number of U.S. ports are implanting advanced technologies designed to make access, egress and cargo clearance more efficient for truckers and more secure for all in the supply chain.

Goodyear CEO Adds Role of Chairman • GAO Says Charging More During Rush Hour Eases Traffic • Mineta: No Hike in Fuel Tax for Road Programs • NTSB to Monitor Medical Conditions of Truckers • And more...

G8 Agrees on New Passport Plan • Government Plans Five-Day 91ÊÓƵland Security Exercise • Customs Ups Enforcement of 24-Hour Manifest Rule • TSA to Cut 3,000 More Airport Screeners

The Federal Reserve voted unanimously on Tuesday to keep interest rates unchanged, but said that slow growth is now a greater risk to the economy than inflation.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor.At first, it looked as if the Environmental Protection Agency would discourage heavy-duty diesel engine manufacturers from adopting one technology over another in achieving the next big reduction in exhaust emissions, due by 2007.

Computer-based interactive teaching methods are an integral part of driver training at MacKinnon Transport, a carrier that has twice won the grand prize in the Truckload Carriers Association’s National Fleet Safety Awards, most recently in 2001, for truckload fleets driving less than 25 million miles a year.