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Amtrak will soon be hauling perishable produce along with passengers, parcels and other cargo as the company goes after additional opportunities to put freight on its trains.

The organization representing U.S. truck engine manufacturers thinks the Environmental Protection Agency is making last-minute “massive changes” in an agreement regarding emissions reductions and it would like the agency to slow things down.

When PC Week, one of the nation’s leading high-tech magazines, went looking for the top information technology innovator, it turned to a manufacturer of heavy-duty trucks.

The Teamsters placed Local 115 in Philadelphia in trusteeship and removed its top executive Nov. 14, citing an abuse of member rights and failure to protect union finances.

United Parcel Service ended more than 90 years of private ownership last week with a record breaking initial public stock offering, raising $5.47 billion.

A. Maurice Myers is trying for a corporate hat trick. Three years after joining Yellow Corp., Myers last week announced his immediate departure for the greener pastures of the trash-hauling industry.

A study conducted by a regional planning agency in California points the finger at diesel emissions for 71% of the cancer risk from air contaminants in the Los Angeles Basin.

Jevic Transportation is proving that it pays to be different. Just ask its new owner, Yellow Corp., which doled out $200 million for the family-run business in August.

Dozens of trucking executives and industry lawyers assembled to discuss vexing labor relations issues and how best to adapt to the changes ahead of them as the century draws to a close at the 13th annual conference of the North American Trucking Industrial Relations Association.