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Transport Topics business coverage focuses on the financial, economic, and commercial aspects of the modern freight business. Looking at both the microeconomic and macroeconomic forces shaping bottom lines, the news in this category includes labor news, jobs reports, tonnage and sales indicators, operations analysis, money and banking, mergers, acquisitions, e-commerce, bankruptcy, insurance issues, and more.

Business

Driver Turnover Rate Rises

Driver turnover rose measurably for the first time in nearly four years during the second quarter, American Trucking Associations reported, as increasing freight volumes gave drivers more options.

September 27, 2010
Business, Safety

LaHood Announces Broadened Texting Ban Aimed at Intrastate Hazmat Truck Drivers

WASHINGTON Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood announced that the Obama administration intends to issue a broader ban on texting while driving aimed at closing a jurisdictional loophole involving intrastate haulers of hazardous materials.

September 27, 2010
Business, Logistics

Capstone Projects Test Logistics Students Skills

Many students who take master-level courses in logistics and supply chain management are required to undertake a special project, called a capstone project, to demonstrate their knowledge and skills.

September 27, 2010
Business

More Foreign Competition Seen Hurting North American OEMs

Low-cost commercial vehicle producers in Russia, India and China are poised to push North American OEMs out of truck markets in emerging nations within four years, according to a study by AlixPartners LLP.

September 27, 2010
Editorial, Business

Appreciating Truck Drivers

Once a year and it should be far more often we pause in our busy lives to take notice of and show our appreciation for the everyday heroes who move our freight: the 3.4 million professional truck drivers who deliver the goods.

September 27, 2010
Business, Technology

PeopleNet, Par Logistics Partner in Trailer Tracking

PeopleNet, in a bid to push further into the trailer-tracking market, is touting integration with Par Logistics Management Systems as the new core of the Minnetonka, Minn., companys trailer-management product.

September 27, 2010
Letters to the Editor, Business, Safety, Government, Logistics, Autonomous

Letters: Keep the Step Vans, Calling it Quits, Natural Gas, Background Reports

Please keep step-van drivers in the National Truck Driving Championships. I attended my first truck-driving rodeo two years ago because the step-van category was added, and I had a blast. Now, Im hooked on NTDC.

September 27, 2010
Business, Equipment

Some DPFs Have Defects, Truck, Engine Makers Say

RALEIGH, N.C. Representatives of three major truck and engine makers candidly admitted to fleet maintenance directors meeting here that some performance results of diesel particulate filters have not worked out as well as originally anticipated.

September 27, 2010
Business

Oregons Weight-Mile Tax to Increase Oct. 1 by an Average of 24.5%

Oregons truck weight-mile tax is set to increase Oct. 1 by an average of 24.5%, along with the flat fees some truckers pay.

September 27, 2010
Business

Obama Seeks Weight Exemption For Vermont, Maine Highways

President Obama has asked that a pilot program allowing trucks up to 100,000 pounds to run on interstate highways in Maine and Vermont become a permanent exemption to the federal 80,000-pound limit.

September 27, 2010