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Logistics firm Expeditors International of Washington said it will undertake a 2-for-1 stock split and reported a first-quarter profit of $52.4 million or 47 cents a share, up from $30.9 million or 28 cents in the previous fourth quarter.

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. reported net first-quarter earnings of $74 million or 37 cents a share, up from $68 million or 35 cents last year.

The United Auto Workers union has asked its members at bankrupt auto-parts supplier Delphi Corp. to hold a strike vote by May 14, Bloomberg reported.

Worker productivity jumped at a 3.2% annual rate in the first quarter following the first decline in nearly five years, the Labor Department reported Thursday.

Regional trucking firms are benefiting from Iowa’s growing ethanol industry, the Associated Press reported.

U.S. factory orders jumped 4.2% in March, the biggest gain in 10 months, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday.

The U.S. economy’s service sector growth rose last month, the Institute for Supply Management said Wednesday.

Freight forwarder Target Logistics said Wednesday it earned $610,000 or 3 cents a share for its third quarter ended March 31, up from $265,000 or 1 cent a year earlier.

The Department of Transportation’s internal watchdog office said the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is not doing enough to stop carriers who repeatedly break federal safety rules.

The Department of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍøland Security said last week it has started conducting background checks on hundreds of thousands of port workers, the first step in unveiling the Transportation Worker Identification Credential, commonly referred to as TWIC.