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An ad hoc coalition including the National Pork Producers Council and 140 other business, manufacturing and agricultural organizations, sent a letter Tuesday to President Obama urging him to quickly resolve a dispute with Mexico over allowing its trucks to transport goods into the United States.

Freight brokers and logistics providers saw profit margins decrease 5% in 2008 compared to the previous year due to volatile market conditions, a survey by transportation technology company TransCore shows.

An Illinois trucking company that carries mail in 14 states has closed its doors, a Wisconsin television station reported.

Someone needs to read the article that was published about the truck driver shot and killed in Knoxville, Tenn.

We’re pleased to see that President Obama’s administration is at work crafting a plan to reopen the United States to trucks from Mexico, as agreed to years ago when the North American Free Trade Agreement was ratified.

The U.S. Coast Guard is beginning to review how biometric devices should be added to federal transport security cards that are becoming mandatory for truckers and everyone else who wants access to secure port areas.

Four more trucking companies, including Chicago-area less-than-truckload carrier Mid-States Express Inc., have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, becoming the latest casualties of the continuing economic downturn and credit crunch.

FedEx Corp. last week won a Washington state class action case that affirmed the company’s position on driver classification.

PHOENIX — As an Arizona highway patrol officer for 14 years in the 1970s and ’80s, Dick Landis chased illegal immigrants, drunken college students, speeding motorists and even hardened drug dealers up and down just about every strip of concrete slicing through the state’s scalding, lonely desert.