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Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. img src="http://www.ttnews.com/images/printeditiontag_new.gif" width=120 align=right>An economy that was showing signs of flattening even before Hurricane Katrina bludgeoned the Gulf Coast will now have to battle even harder to regain its footing as high energy costs threaten the businesses of shippers and their trucking providers.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor.Publicly traded trucking companies generally enjoyed a profitable second quarter, but Wall Street analysts have not been able to come to a consensus on where the industry was headed for 2006.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Transportation is aiming to propose a rule in September that would mandate which companies — ocean and rail carriers or trucking companies — are responsible for the safety of intermodal chassis that hook cargo containers to highway tractors.

LAS VEGAS — Trucking company executives gathered here at the Management Conference & Exhibition of American Trucking Associations in a time of plenty to wrestle with issues that could threaten that prosperity.

NEW YORK — Truck makers and their vendors anticipate strong profits through 2006, said two major manufacturers.

NEW YORK — Truckload carriers told investors here that many of their customers have adjusted quickly to the federal hours-of-service rules because otherwise they would have to pay detention fees.

NEW YORK — Experiments by three truckload carriers revealed that post-October 2002 diesel engines have been reasonably durable and that traditional trade cycles for rolling stock work well, their executives said.

Being the trucking industry’s advocate in the halls of Congress, the offices of the federal government and the nation’s courts takes a big staff that must be managed and directed every day.

Bill Graves — American Trucking Associations president, two-term governor of Kansas with a total of 16 years holding statewide elected office in Kansas — has had a lot of staff people.

Railroad holding company Kansas City Southern said it would spend $200 million in cash and stock to create a unified rail network that could haul freight from Mexico City to St. Louis.