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A dispute between two transponder services has prevented some truckers traveling through Oregon from using the in-cab devices that help ease their trip.

Cold and calculating might be one way of describing a Maryland-based food manufacturer and distributor as it repositions itself and its fleet of vehicles in the grocery industry.

The European Union’s hopes of shifting some freight off roads and onto “rail freight freeways” has failed to leave the station because of resistance from the railways, said Julia Clarke, director of the British Rail Freight Group.

Employees of Averitt Express give only a little from their weekly paychecks to an in-house charitable program, but it really adds up to the benefit of recipients.

After a slow start, reverse logistics management is coming into its own.

The Environmental Protection Agency is under investigation by the House Commerce Committee over its handling of claims that diesel engine manufacturers cheated on federal emissions tests. A settlement of the dispute led to the largest environmental penalty ever imposed in U.S. history.

Is bigger better? Or is smaller beautiful? Some in the trucking and railroad industries would take issue with both. Trucking sees bigger loads increasing the productivity of drivers, but its rail counterpart fears the loss of freight business.

Rep. Frank Wolf, a Virginia Republican, vowed to get Congress to support his plan to move the Office of Motor Carriers from the Federal Highway Administration to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

What a year it was for lawyers, labor unions and lobbyists. And not a bad year for business, either.