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The Maritime Administration is working on a proposal to develop a nationwide identification card for transportation workers that all truck drivers and millions more who are employed in moving people and freight would carry.

The Commerce Department said Monday that U.S. new home sales rose 5.7% in December, making 2001 the strongest year on record.

Word that diesel fuel costs fell again last week was a timely reminder of the mixed pressures facing the trucking industry as the economy tries to climb out of its more than year-long downturn.

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The average price for a gallon of diesel fuel rose for the first time in three weeks, edging up 0.4 cent to reach $1.144 per gallon, the U.S. Department of Energy said Monday.

Despite an 0.8% drop in December, sales of previously owned homes set a record in 2001, the National Association of Realtors said Friday.

President Bush said Friday that he will propose spending an additional $2.1 billion next year in the effort to secure the nation’s borders without slowing down the millions of people, trucks and railroad cars that cross them each day, the Associated Press reported.

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Louis P. Saia III says he is out to “change the way temperature-controlled less-than-truckload freight moves forever.”