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Electronic commerce remains a hot topic in transportation despite the lukewarm reaction some of Internet’s biggest deliverers have received from Wall Street in the wake of the holiday rush.

Members of the Oregon Trucking Associations are hunting for cash to help pay for a $4.1 million campaign to keep their state’s weight-distance tax in the grave.

The executive committee of the Truckload Carriers Association voted 20-8 on Feb. 5 to recommend integrating the group with American Trucking Associations.

Celadon Group is launching a business-to-business Web site that the company has tailored to provide small and medium-size trucking companies with the kind of volume price discounts that big carriers have enjoyed for years.

The Clinton administration proposes to spend a record $29.3 billion on roads and bridges in fiscal 2001, but the federal-aid program still faces diversions of tax revenue, and that drew some complaints.

A combination of low-sulfur fuel and a diesel particulate filter is effective in reducing particulate matter in emissions by as much as 95%, according to a joint government-private study.

Celadon Group is launching a business-to-business Web site tailored to provide small and medium-size trucking companies with the kind of volume price discounts that big carriers get.

In the news this morning: Attorneys say drayage contracts may hold key to employee-contractor debate; Higher salaries not always the cure for high turnover; and STB wants shippers involved in rate classification.

Several U.S. railroads, including Burlington Northern Santa Fe and Union Pacific, are raising rates in an effort to recoup higher labor and fuel costs.

Diesel fuel prices have reached their highest level in a decade, driving some fleet managers to try and cut costs the only way they can by increasing fuel efficiency.