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TransCore Inc., a rapidly growing provider of high-tech transportation hardware and services, last week added another dimension to its empire, buying load-matching pioneer DAT Services from its founder, Portland, Ore.-based Jubitz Corp.

In todays news: Democrats Push Smaller Tax Cut Plan; FedEx Urges Public Hearing on DHL; BNSF Adds Trailer Rates to ValueTrax; EGL Earns 35 Cents/Shr; Penske/Rollins Merger Gets an Early Nod; and more...

President Bush’s swift agreement to open the U.S.-Mexico border to international truck traffic shows his commitment to trade between North America’s most populous neighbors and to promises made along the campaign trail.

Will the global supply chain continue to fuse and fortify? Or will the links be fractured — and business fortunes fractionalized — by shortsightedness.

E-Commerce May Target Logistics; Slowing Sales Could Curb New Wireless Products; Bird Deaths Could Limit Cell Tower Construction; AT&T Begins Marketing Broadband Ahead of Launch.

President Bush has announced his intention to nominate Michael P. Jackson, a former senior official at the American Trucking Associations, to be deputy secretary of transportation.

The Texas and U.S. departments of transportation have failed to provide adequate funding for sorely needed border infrastructure such as more roads to facilitate truck traffic that is growing rapidly because of the North American Free Trade Agreement.