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The American Transportation Research Institute is asking trucking executives to weigh in on changes to the 34-hour restart provision of the federal hours-of-service rule, set to take effect in July.

Factory orders rose 4.8% in September, the most since March 2011, the Commerce Department said Friday.

U.S. employers added 171,000 jobs in October and the unemployment rate ticked up a tenth of a point to 7.9% as more people entered the labor force, the Labor Department reported Friday.

UPS Inc. said Friday it has pledged $1.5 million in cash and in-kind support to help recovery efforts to areas damaged by Hurricane Sandy.

The federal government waived a shipping law and the states of New York and New Jersey waived fuel restrictions Friday as they ramped up efforts to quickly move diesel and gasoline supplies into the two states hit hardest by Hurricane Sandy.

The Intermodal Association of North America and The National Industrial Transportation League will hold concurrent meetings later this month as rail/truck freight volumes remain close to the peak year of 2006.

U.S. companies are expected to create more than 1 million logistics-related jobs in the next four years, but educational institutions are currently turning out a small fraction of the trained workers that will be needed, a new study shows.

Fleets should expect rising insurance premiums, especially for property/casualty and workers’ compensation lines, executives and insurance brokers said.

Third-quarter earnings statements of less-than-truckload carriers issued last week generally followed an industrywide pattern of mixed results, with some seeing solid gains in profitability but others reporting significant earnings drop-offs.