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APL Logistics has begun to deploy its own fleet of 53-foot containers in the North American domestic intermodal market.

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation has approved two stretches of state highway for use by wider truck trailers.

The U.S. economy rose at a 1.9% annual rate in the first quarter, the Commerce Department said Friday, boosting an earlier estimate.

Durable goods orders rose 1.9% in May, the Commerce Department said Friday.

The ability of state and local governments to raise cash by leasing or selling transportation assets to private investors would be slowed, if not killed altogether, under a bill introduced by Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Illinois).

FedEx Corp.’s earnings jumped 33% in its fiscal fourth quarter, led by a return to profitability at its less-than-truckload FedEx Freight unit after six consecutive quarters of losses.

PHOENIX — American Trucking Associations wants to reinvigorate its operational councils, the group’s president said at industry meetings here, and especially in the field of technology, where significant developments have changed freight transportation dramatically.

A Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration advisory committee last week recommended that the agency set up a database to identify and track trucking company officials, supervisors and other key “persons of influence” who exhibit “patterns of safety violations.”

Arkansas truckers, whose leadership convinced state legislators to approve a 5-cent-a-gallon diesel tax increase for highway repairs, are seeking a new funding source after a plan to put the tax proposal before the voters ran into stiff opposition.

Trucking industry costs dipped slightly from 2008 to the first quarter of 2010, but higher costs for equipment and tires have continued to drive up costs since then, a new American Transportation Research Institute report said.