Transportation Secretary Mary Peters said Monday that Congress should not halt efforts of a cross-border trucking program between the United States and Mexico.
March 10, 2008BusinessGovernmentFuel
CARB Set to Distribute $25 Million in Truck Retrofit, Replacement Grants
California environmental regulators said they will soon decide how to distribute early grants totaling $25 million for truck retrofits and replacements to help reduce diesel emissions at the state’s ports and intermodal facilities.
March 10, 2008BusinessSafetyGovernment
Sen. Dorgan Tells Peters DOT is ‘Arrogant’ for Refusing to Block Cross-Border Funding
Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) told Transportation Secretary Mary Peters that her department was “arrogant” in its refusal to go along with what he said Congress intended when it prohibited funding for the DOT’s controversial U.S.-Mexico border trucking program.
March 10, 2008Government
Wholesale Inventories Rise Less Than Forecast
Wholesale inventories rose 0.8% in January, the Commerce Department said Monday.
March 10, 2008GovernmentBusinessTechnologyEquipmentSafety
Midwest Hit By Snowstorm
Highway and utility crews worked overtime Sunday to recover from a big storm system that buried Ohio and other parts of the Midwest in snow, the Associated Press reported.
March 10, 2008BusinessSafetyGovernment
Trimac Reports Fourth-Quarter Profit
Canada-based transportation firm Trimac Income Fund said its fourth-quarter net earnings were C$2.2 million or about 9 cents per unit, compared with C$3.1 million or 8 cents a year earlier.
March 10, 2008Government
Gas Jumps to $3.20 a Gallon
The average price of a gallon of regular gasoline at U.S. filling stations rose 9 cents in the past two weeks to $3.20 a gallon, according to the latest Lundberg Survey of filling stations.
March 10, 2008GovernmentBusinessSafetyFuel
TCA Chiefs Report Little Sign of Freight Tonnage Recovery
NASSAU, Bahamas — Leaders of the Truckload Carriers Association said their members have seen no improvement in the thin freight market, despite reports that tonnage has increased in the past three months, and that their other great worry was sharply rising fuel prices.
March 10, 2008GovernmentBusinessSafety
Upcoming Changes in White House, Congress Cloud Picture for Trucking Industry’s Future
While politicians and pollsters count up votes and delegates in the long, slow march to the presidential election this November, trucking industry officials said the upcoming change in power clouds the industry’s outlook for 2009 and beyond.
March 10, 2008BusinessLogisticsGovernment
Diesel Again Hits Record, at $3.658
Retail diesel prices jumped another 10.6 cents a gallon last week to a new record national average of $3.658; diesel has now risen 37.8 cents a gallon over the past three weeks.
March 10, 2008