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As customers seek ways to cut expenses and reduce their carbon footprint through the supply chain, warehouse operators are taking their own steps to trim energy use, optimize loads and automate processes.

Peterbilt and Kenworth trucks will be on display at the Mid-America Trucking Show in 2010, but Volvos won’t, according to officials of the truck makers.

Registrations of new trailers in the United States are running at less than half of last year’s pace, nearly ensuring that 2009 will be the worst 12 months for trailer sales since at least 1975.

The Department of Transportation’s inspector general said the federal agency needs to work with Congress to develop a plan to fund the nation’s surface transportation network.

WASHINGTON — Rep. James Oberstar (D-Minn.), the chairman of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, said he was crafting an infrastructure jobs program to supplement federal stimulus efforts.

The average price of U.S. retail dipped 1.2 cents to $2.775 a gallon last week, the fourth straight decline. The fuel, however, remains just 3.3 cents below the high for the year, the Department of Energy reported.

U.S. factory orders rose for the sixth time in seven months in October, the Commerce Department said Friday.

Canadian federal and local authorities have green-lighted environmental plans for the Detroit River International Crossing project, part of a plan for a new proposed bridge crossing between the U.S. and Canada.

Cummins Inc. plans to temporarily cut about 400 jobs at a plant in western New York state starting in January because of expected lower demand for the heavy-duty engines produced there, Bloomberg reported.

The U.S. economy’s service sector contracted last month, the Institute for Supply Management said Thursday.