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WebLink Wireless Files for Chapter 11; Analysis Reduces Returns; Carriers Post Special Rates on Internet; and more...

A series of economic reports released on Friday appear to show that while the economy has continued to struggle so far in 2001, there are signs it may pick up later in the year.

NEW ORLEANS — Trucking interests say they will invite groups critical of trucking safety to meetings of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance and seek their input on safety enforcement issues.

Some truck cargo crossing U.S. land borders at Laredo, Texas, and Port Huron, Mich., will bypass secondary inspection lanes during a 60-day Customs Service experiment on automated processing beginning this month.

Congress Works to Wrap Up Tax Cut Bill; Cannon Says It Is Not Bankrupt; UPS Completes Fritz Purchase, Plans New Unit; Flooding Will Cut BNSF’s Earnings, BNSF Says; and more...

U.S. Readies Asia-Based Trade Portal; Descartes Narrows Loss; Optum Bags J.C. Penney, Navy; Use of Internet Saves Shipment Data Costs; and more...

NEW YORK — Having endured a year-and-a-half of searing competition that produced a raft of hardscrabble balance sheets, some of the nation’s most prominent truckload executives told a investors gathering here that just a bit more perseverance on the part of carriers will result in lavish rewards for both themselves and their financial backers.

The Department of Transportation has done little to prepare for opening the entire United States to Mexican trucks, and there is still a critical need for more inspectors and facilities in the four border states, according to an interim report from DOT’s inspector general.

LAS VEGAS — Three companies attempting to streamline shipper and carrier transactions through private information exchanges appear to have shut down or have been sold this May, according to transportation industry executives. Two of the faded operations specialized in the global container shipping industry.

U.S. sales of new homes in April posted their largest decline in four years, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.