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The Memorial Day holiday dawned to the highest U.S. diesel fuel prices in nearly four months, as an increase in every region combined to produce a national average price of $1.529 per gallon. That is 3.5 cents above the previous week.

EchoStar Is Pursuing Hughes Bid Despite Losing Ally; Senate Confirms Bush Nominees to FTC and FCC; Service Provider Delivers E-Commerce Security; and more...

A series of economic reports released on Friday appear to show that while the economy has continued to struggle so far in 2001, there are signs it may pick up later in the year.

NEW ORLEANS — Trucking interests say they will invite groups critical of trucking safety to meetings of the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance and seek their input on safety enforcement issues.

Some truck cargo crossing U.S. land borders at Laredo, Texas, and Port Huron, Mich., will bypass secondary inspection lanes during a 60-day Customs Service experiment on automated processing beginning this month.

Congress Works to Wrap Up Tax Cut Bill; Cannon Says It Is Not Bankrupt; UPS Completes Fritz Purchase, Plans New Unit; Flooding Will Cut BNSF’s Earnings, BNSF Says; and more...

Slumping sales at the nation’s biggest truck manufacturer have forced James L. Hebe to step down as chief executive officer of Freightliner and give way to former Chief Financial Officer Rainer Schmueckle, who has been named by the parent company DaimlerChrysler to replace him.

(Editor's Note: The following is a copy of a press release from DaimlerChrysler on Friday.) aimlerChrysler announced today that its Board of Management has accepted the resignation of Mr. Jim Hebe, President of Freightliner LLC, a business unit of the Commercial Vehicles Division. The Board also announced the appointment of Mr. Rainer Schmueckle as Mr. Hebe's successor.

WebLink Wireless Files for Chapter 11; Analysis Reduces Returns; Carriers Post Special Rates on Internet; and more...