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Truckload fleet executives said not even the certainty of truck prices rising up to 10% next year will cause them to alter their current purchasing plans.

The Transportation Intermediaries Association has released its second-quarter 3PL Market Report, which showed that total dollars billed by all study participants for all activities increased about 7% from the first quarter.

Oil rose to near a 10-month high over $74 a barrel Monday, as equity markets gained and on speculation the economy was beginning to show signs of recovery, Bloomberg reported.

Truckload carriers C.R. England and Knight Transportation each recently announced they were investing in new software aimed at making its routing and fuel purchasing more efficient.

UPS Inc. said that all U.S.-based sellers on eBay now have a direct, free connection from within that site to the UPS WorldShip system.

ALK Technologies said it released a version of CoPilot Live, its passenger vehicle navigation software, for Apple’s iPhone.

This is in response to the letter in the July 27 issue with the headline “Brokers Revisited”: Your complaint is not justified with me.

We’re still waiting for definitive signs that the economy has turned the corner on this recession, and a return to normal business levels is just down the road.

All nine publicly traded less-than-truckload carriers reported classic signs of overcapacity — tonnage and pricing falling simultaneously — during the second quarter of this year, leaving the industry unable to capitalize on the 47% decline in diesel prices from the corresponding time in 2008.