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Emery Worldwide Airlines and the U.S. Postal Service will terminate their Priority Mail contract Jan. 7, ending 13 months early what has been a tempestuous business relationship since its start in spring 1997.

Transportation holding company Intrenet Inc. continues to investigate its finances so that it can resume trading on Nasdaq’s small cap listings.

The calm that pervaded America after what was probably the closest presidential election in the nation’s history is a strong affirmation of our democratic institutions.

For decades, railroads have been trying to build their intermodal business at the expense of trucking. For decades, it hasn’t worked.

More Capitol Hill hearings on railroad freight services and rates are likely no matter which party controls Congress in the next session, but it remains to be seen whether sentiment for any level of re-regulation of the rail industry will grow.

While proposed changes in trucking’s hours of service are under an intense spotlight, the work conditions of railroad personnel responsible for the movement of trains also have been targeted for reform.

For a second time, the National Owner-Operator Trucking Association summoned truckers to the nation’s capital to protest high fuel costs, but the turnout was smaller than the first, staged in March.

In Japan, narrow streets and regulatory limits on vehicle lengths and weights create an environment for commercial trucking that tolerates only the use of cab-over-engine trucks. That is why COEs, ranging from small, light-duty courier trucks to this country’s equivalent of Class 8 heavy-duty tractors, were the only truck types on display at the 34th Tokyo Motor Show.

In a sense, the buzz on the exhibit floor at the American Trucking Associations’ annual conference was transmitted wirelessly as firms touted the benefits of palm-size minicomputers and other gadgets to communicate with drivers.