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Schneider Adds Net Exchange to Procurement System • Stonier Revenues Up 60% in 2Q • N.M. to Fund Job Training for Fuel Generation • Struggling Tech Companies Lead Job Cutters • And more...

Although the Department of Transportation has signaled it is close to opening the U.S. border to Mexican trucking, the process still has some wrinkles to iron out before those trucks begin operations across this country.

While the Internet may be great for buying an airline ticket, the electronic medium has not been kind to entrepreneurs hawking freight services. Other than carrier Web sites, the only real online-market success within the trucking industry has been the electronic load boards, according to industry analysts.

Services that match freight with eligible trucks are a bit like dating services, say industry analysts. Personalities and physical attributes bring people together in the singles scene, but when it comes to marrying 20 pallets of toothpaste with a truck, the criteria are destination, availability, rates and service guarantees.

Neb. Gov. Vows to Open Flooded Out I-80 • Navistar Gets Injunction, Spokesman Says • UPS Pilots Will Walk Out if Teamsters Strike • Unemployment Edges Up to 5.9% in June • And more...

The Institute for Supply Management’s services index showed a lower rate of expansion in June, falling to 57.2 from 60.1 the previous month.

Building a central database of hazardous materials shipments would be more trouble than it would be worth, and could create new security concerns, according to a study Congress ordered.

Once viewed as opportunistic and sometimes unsavory middlemen operating with little more than a phone and fax, freight brokers have achieved a certain level of respectability in the minds of shippers and perhaps even grudging acceptance by many truckers.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor.It’s a safe bet that at least once a week newspapers around the country will carry stories about economic weakness. It is also safe to predict that as financial weakness continues, struggling businesses will be forced to seek bankruptcy protection.

Windsor Wants to Cut Truck Traffic • Bankruptcies Continue Despite Recovering Economy • New Jobless Claims at 15-Month Low, Labor Dept. Says • West Coast Cargo Flows During Contract Talks • And more...