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Some critics of toll financing have predicted grave consequences if state and local governments rely on tolls to any greater degree to provide road capacity — the critical highways that commercial trucking companies and passenger car drivers need to remain mobile.

Most small fleet owners face an agonizing decision: go it alone or sell out. Some are forced to consider a third option: get out of the business.

Danzas shareholders approved the $1.1 billion sale of their company to the German post office, Deutsche Post, creating one of the world’s largest freight transportation groups.

PARIS — Volvo AB has broken off negotiations to acquire its Swedish rival, Scania.

A vote by the European Union to reduce aircraft noise by banning the use of some Boeing 727 aircraft has international air freight carriers and the U.S. Congress up in arms.

A federal appeals court has upheld the federal motor carrier safety ratings system, rejecting trucking’s claims that the process is “arbitrary and capricious” and based on unsound methodology.

A new group comprised of municipal officials from across the country has taken aim at railroad safety.

United Road Services, Albany, N.Y., has purchased three auto haulers and a towing company, and agreed to buy two other businesses, adding to its expanding network of towing, recovery and transport companies.

A process that shippers find expensive and burdensome keeps them from seeking federal recourse even when they believe railroads are charging too much, according to congressional auditors.

A company that claimed to be the biggest in Kentucky in the business of removing petroleum underground storage tanks filed for bankruptcy protection Feb. 23.