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House Republicans last week tried to whip up enthusiasm for a ninth temporary extension of federal transportation funding, while House Democrats moved to get the Senate’s two-year reauthorization bill on the floor for debate.

UPS Inc. last week announced its largest-ever acquisition, a $6.8 billion deal to buy Dutch package carrier TNT Express NV.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has decided to raise the importance of hazmat handling under its new safety rating program, while it will reduce the emphasis on load securement.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The nation’s largest annual trucking show here last week illustrated just how much the U.S. truck market has been reinvigorated, as more-prosperous equipment manufacturers eagerly chased the business of solid, stable motor carriers.

Oil rose almost $2 to more than $107 a barrel Friday following a report that Iranian crude exports may drop due to sanctions, Bloomberg reported.

New home sales fell 1.6% in February, the second straight monthly decline, the Commerce Department said Friday.

The state of Arkansas will fund a study to examine the viability of tolling a portion of Interstate 40 in the state, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has let the trucking industry down by failing to modify the way it assigns fault in truck-related crashes.

Hidden deep within the massive Senate Transportation Bill, No. 1813, on pages 1283-1284, is a provision that will make owners and directors of corporations personally liable for civil penalties if the bill, which has passed the Senate and is headed for the House, becomes law.

It has become something of a cliché that what followed the economic deregulation of trucking in the early 1980s was even more regulation, albeit in different forms.