Truck News

About Truck News...

House Panel Schedules Fact-Finding Trip to Border

Members of the House Highways and Transit subcommittee will be visiting border inspection stations in San Diego and Laredo, Texas, as part of a fact-finding venture to determine the safety of Mexican trucks that cross into the United States.

May 18, 2001

Executive Briefing - May 18

Werner Opens Terminal in Laredo, Texas; United Airlines Workers Say Ready to Strike; AAA Expects Record Travel During Memorial Day Weekend; Mitsubishi Reports Huge Loss Despite Truck Success; Study Finds Fuel Economy Lowest Since 1980; and more...

May 18, 2001

President Unveils Energy Plan, Pushes Production

Increased production is, as expected, the centerpiece of President Bush’s long-awaited energy plan unveiled on Thursday.

May 17, 2001

Trucking Technology Report - May 17

Intel to Describe New Chip; Emerging Technologies: Gaining the Wireless Edge; The New Wireless Cheerleaders? E-Tailers; and more...

May 17, 2001

LEI Ends Downward Trend; Philly Fed’s Index Falls

Two economic reports issued Thursday offered different conclusions about the effectiveness of the recent interest rate cuts by the Federal Reserve.

May 17, 2001

Senate Budget Chief Proposes to Boost Border Spending

WASHINGTON — Sen. Pete Domenici, the New Mexico Republican who chairs the Budget Committee in the Senate, wants to give the Customs Service an additional $500 million to spend on brick and mortar for its facilities along the U.S.-Mexico border.

May 17, 2001

FMCSA Misses Deadlines for Key Reports on Trucking

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is still swimming against the tide in efforts to meet statutory deadlines as the agency has failed to send Congress two reports required in the agency’s fiscal 2001 appropriations bill.

May 17, 2001

CF Requests Reversal in Sex Discrimination Suit

Consolidated Freightways filed a motion for a new trial in a case in which a former employee was awarded $1.1 million in damages for sex discrimination.

May 17, 2001

Executive Briefing - May 17

United Cargo Raising Some Domestic Rates; Layoffs Up Sharply From Year Ago; Bush Names Two to NLRB; Engineer Error Caused Runaway Train; and more...

May 17, 2001

Trucking Technology Report - May 16

Ford Delays In-Vehicle Wireless Service; Towing Site Finds Its Niche on the Web; Study: Web Collaboration Could Yield Big Savings and more...

May 16, 2001

Trending

Newsletter Signup

Subscribe to Transport Topics

 

Hot Topics