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I couldn’t agree more with some of the issues your reporter presented in the May 28th issue regarding driver shortage (“Cirillo Lays Blame for Driver Shortage at Industry’s Door,” p. 3).

Is the party over for trucking stocks? After seeing prices appreciate as much as 64% over the past year, trucking equity analyst James J. Valentine of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter downgraded his four truckload stock picks from “outperform” to “neutral” on May 7 and said he doesn’t expect trucking stocks to rebound until mid-2002.

���ϳԹ��� construction in the United States edged down in May, but still remained at healthy levels, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday.

DaimlerChrysler Considers Freightliner Improvements; Drop in Demand Forces Atlas Air to Cut Jobs; Texas DOT Warns of Delays on I-35; Qualcomm Forms Wireless Consortium; and more...

Motorola Inc. Buys Emergency Radio Network; Quaker Oats Getting in the E-Commerce Game; EMCON 2000 Starts Up in Germany; and more...

What do hours of service, waiting time, driver recruitment and safety have to do with each other? Everything. Trucking is an industry where some of the most important employees are not protected by the Fair Labor Standards Act — and that relates to pay.

Despite a few forecasts for better economic times in the months ahead, the harsh reality of today’s news shows that the Federal Reserve needs to continue lowering interest rates to ensure better days.

Transportation company Landstar System said Monday that Henry Gerkens has been named president and chief financial officer. Gerkens, most recently executive vice president and chief financial officer, replaces Jeff Crowe as president.

DHL, Northwest Form Air Alliance; TMG Acquires Outbound in Truckside Ad Deal; Springfield, Va., Construction Slows Traffic; and more...