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Officials from the United States and Canada are preparing for a meeting at the end of February to resolve issues relating to the bottlenecks created by increased security along the world’s longest undefended border.

WASHINGTON — President Bush’s budget plan for fiscal 2003 proposes to spend $8.8 billion for transportation security, or roughly 15% of the Transportation Department’s total $59.3 billion budget package.

Banking on the fact that people possess unique characteristics, biometric technology providers are moving toward developing applications to wrap the trucking industry in a security blanket.

New Jersey Seeks Damages From Truck Crash • Mich. Gov. Seeks to Raise Diesel Tax • TransForce to Issue New Shares • Forward Air's 4Q, 2001 Earnings Dip • And more...

U.S. wholesale inventories fell 0.6% in December, bringing stockpiles of U.S. goods to $288.2 billion -- the lowest point since January 2000 -- a government report released Friday showed.

Kansas Gov. Bill Graves’s plan to raise his state’s motor fuels taxes and truck fees is drawing opposition from the Kansas Motor Carriers Association.

Mild Winter, Low Demand May Foil OPEC • Stonier Launches Intermodal Growth Plan • FedEx Signs Deal with Mexican Carrier • Russia Ponders Continued Oil Output Cuts • And more...

WASHINGTON — Reducing highway fatalities, alleviating congestion and increasing security have emerged as top funding priorities in the next multiyear highway bill, according to the head of a key Senate authorizing committee.

More Senate Staffers Complain of Illness From Irradiated Mail • Man Arrested After Trying to Break Into Cockpit • DOT Won't Contract With Argenbright Security • Bush Reinforces $20 Billion Pledge for NYC • And more...

As the Labor Department reported a 15,000 drop in the number of first-time unemployment benefit filings Thursday, a debate erupted over whether the Federal Reserve should follow up 11 cuts in short-term interest rates with an increase.