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Transportation.com has tapped a former cabinet official and presidential adviser as its chairman of the board to help establish the fledgling Internet business on firm ground.

Another Canadian transportation firm is stepping up its acquisition program.

Higher fuel prices obviously increase the cost of trucking. But how much?

There was bad news for trucking from the Pacific Northwest last week. A coalition of business groups led by the Oregon Trucking Association was forced to concede defeat in its efforts to consign the state’s hated weight-distance tax to oblivion. The monster lives on.

Many in trucking want to know where diesel fuel prices are likely to go, now that the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries has agreed to boost crude oil production.

Recent travel on the Interstates confirms that people aren’t slowing down much, if at all, since fuel prices shot up. That includes truckers, who are still in a hurry to get where they’re going with what they’re carrying and never mind that speed ruins fuel economy.

Once again, all of trucking is feeling the pain of a fuel price crisis, reminiscent of similar cost runups in the late 1970s and 80s.

Trucking companies base fuel purchasing decisions on regional variations in prices, and that tendency has increased with the advent of products or policies that point drivers to truck stops with the lower diesel prices.

A transit company in the California desert is a hot spot for alternative fuel research.