WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will ban texting by truck drivers and restrict the use of other in-cab technologies as part of its effort to eliminate distracted driving, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said.
October 2, 2009Business, Safety, Government
LaHood Says Government to Ban Truckers’ Texting
Business, Government
August Factory Orders Drop 0.8%
Factory orders fell 0.8%% in August, the first decline after four months of increases, the Commerce Department said Friday.
October 2, 2009Business, Safety, Government
Rail, Intermodal Traffic Drop
Intermodal rail traffic in the United States fell 16.5% last week from the same week a year ago, the Association of American Railroads said in its weekly report.
October 2, 2009Business, Safety, Government
ISM Factory Index Slips But Shows Expansion
An index of U.S. manufacturing activity declined slightly in September but showed overall expansion, the Institute for Supply Management said Thursday.
October 1, 2009Government, Business
Construction Spending Jumps in August
U.S. construction spending rose 0.8% in August, the largest increase since September 2008, the Commerce Department said Thursday.
October 1, 2009Business, Government
Personal Spending Rises by the Most in 8 Years
Consumer personal spending rose in August by the largest amount in almost eight years, while incomes climbed for the second consecutive month, the Commerce Department said Thursday.
October 1, 2009Business, Safety, Government, Logistics
LaHood, at Summit, Calls Distracted Driving ‘Epidemic’
WASHINGTON — Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said Wednesday that the Department of Transportation’s two-day distracted driving summit was likely to result in “something legislatively” to ban texting and driving, which he termed a national “epidemic.”
October 1, 2009Business, Safety, Government
NAFTA Surface Trade Falls 28% in July
Surface transportation trade among the United States, Canada and Mexico plunged 28% in July from a year earlier, though rose from June, the Department of Transportation said.
September 30, 2009Business, Government
Final GDP Reading for 2Q Revised Upward to a 0.7% Decline
The U.S. economy contracted at an annual rate of 0.7% in the second quarter, better than the 1% decline previously estimated, the Commerce Department said Wednesday.
September 30, 2009Business, Safety, Government
Chicago Manufacturing Index Falls
Manufacturing activity in the Chicago area shrank in September, the Institute for Supply Chain Management-Chicago said Tuesday.
September 30, 2009