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United Shipping & Technology, which acquired Corporate Express Delivery Systems in September, has raised $9 million through a private sale of stock and plans to invest it in e-commerce expansion.

Mexican truckers believe they need five more years to get ready to compete with other North American truckers in hauling international freight.

Freightliner Corp. has issued a recall notice on nearly 3,000 1998 and 1999 model trucks for correction of a flaw that could lead to a wheel separation.

The Federal Highway Administration is soliciting public comment on its plan to mandate use of dedicated short-range communications technology as a provisional standard for certain projects.

This afternoon's headlines: Werner Enterprises posts weaker fourth-quarter earnings; Swift Transportation posts record earnings; and American Freightways plans seven-state expansion.

In the news this morning: FedEx looks to expand into e-commerce; J.B. Hunt logistics unit creates bid system for truckers; and Volvo's order backlog rises while workers furloughed.

The leadership of the Truckload Carriers Association has recommended the group integrate with American Trucking Associations, a key tenet of the larger group’s reorganization plan.

Sales of Class 8 trucks in December pushed 1999’s retail total to 262,316 units, shattering the record of 1998 by nearly 53,000 vehicles.

The Northeast may never again have the levels of rail freight service achieved by Conrail. That assessment comes not from what Norfolk Southern and CSX representatives said during a meeting with shippers Jan. 11, but from what they refused to say.

Trucker pay will finally start to go up industrywide this year, under pressure from a pervasive driver shortage, and the money to fund those raises will come from shippers in the form of rate increases, according to five industry experts who participated in Transport Topics’ 11th annual Management Outlook Forum.