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T-Systems Keeps Trucker's IT Works Moving • Christmas Wonderland Uses Custom-Designed Logistics • Best Buy Employs i2 Technologies

Heavy Snows Slow Buffalo, Other Areas • Security Delays Slow Trucks at U.S.-Canada Ambassador Bridge • OPEC, Others to Cut Oil Production • Frozen Food Express Spins Off Subsidiary • And more...

Sales of heavy-duty trucks rose 17.7% in November from a year earlier as truck manufacturers filled orders for Class 8s with engines built before federal emission standards took effect Oct. 1 as well as new lower-emission models.

The U.S. economy, which fell into recession in March, contracted at a 1.3% annual rate in the third quarter, even weaker than the Commerce Department had previously estimated, but Friday's gross domestic product report left many analysts feeling encouraged heading into 2002.

Freightliner to Consolidate Operations • Bush Says Economy May Not Need Stimulus • Congress Adjourns Without Terrorism Insurance Bill • Consumer Sentiment Index Rises in December • And more...

Insurance has replaced fuel as a primary cost concern for motor carriers, and several participants in the Transport Topics Management Outlook Forum are looking to Congress to act to head off a crisis.

Click here to write your own Letter to the Editor.If there were a driver shortage, trucking companies would have pricing power and be able to raise rates.

Atlas Maintains the Mainframe • New Logistics Approaches Save Time • Utah Pumps Up Technology for Olympic Games

The new head of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Joseph M. Clapp, will seek the cooperation of trucking companies in the effort to reduce truck-related fatalities 50% by 2008.

Senate Passes Port Security Bill • Con-Way’s Fuel Surcharge to Go to Zero • GM Pushes for Daytime Headlights • Florida Recalls More CDLs • And more...