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Ryder System agreed to sell its public transportation service unit to FirstGroup PLC, the United Kingdom’s largest bus operator, for $940 million in cash.

Although the current freight system has performed very well over the years, enabling our country’s businesses to import and export their goods relatively inexpensively, the honeymoon could be over if we don’t begin to seriously plan for the future.

The Department of Transportation is under a congressional mandate to come up with a list of protocols for building such a network by 2001. These 17 standards are considered essential in ensuring that the computer-based systems and the equipment that uses them are “interoperable” — that can be interconnected no matter where they are or who runs them.

Shipments of trailers and chassis continued to slide through May, dropping 14.4% below their levels for the same five months during the record-breaking year of 1998.

Ronald J. Conway has been named president of CSX Transportation in the first of a series of executive changes at both the corporate and subsidiary levels of CSX.

An untold number of interstate truckers is about to lose their shortcuts through New Jersey after Gov. Christie Whitman last week banned tractor-trailers from two-lane, undivided highways.

For the first time since January 1998, some of the biggest U.S. trucking companies are hitting shippers with rate surcharges, triggered by rising fuel prices.

It’s tax-cutting season on Capitol Hill, and so far, trucking interests are getting the short end of the stick as Congress debates how much of a break citizens and companies should receive.

More core intermediary companies like brokerages are adding trucks to their lineups — a sign that the traditional lines between brokerage and trucking are blurring.