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The Federal Reserve voted Tuesday to keep a key U.S. interest rate at a record low rate of zero to 0.25%, though it cited concerns over continued high unemployment.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration said Monday its Compliance Safety and Accountability system, which measures carriers’ safety records, is now live.

A federal appeals court has denied a request by several industry groups to delay full implementation of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s CSA (Compliance Safety and Accountability) monitoring system.

Con-way Freight said Monday it is investing $10 million to expand its San Antonio service center into a new, 105-door, 41,500 square foot facility.

Ensuring the safe delivery of every load should be a top priority in the trucking industry. Yet, even with the most sophisticated technologies and best risk-management techniques, bad things can happen to good people — or good carriers.

Google’s recent move to forsake Net Neutrality — the premise that all content on the Web should be distributed evenhandedly — threatens to have serious consequences for trucking companies’ websites, especially if other Internet titans follow suit.

Oil traded near a two-year high close to $90 early Monday as a report showed continued high demand in China, Bloomberg reported.

UPS Inc. will require customers shipping packages to show government-issued photo identification in an effort to intensify security after explosives were found on October cargo flights, Bloomberg reported.

A huge Midwest snowstorm worked its way east Monday, stranding more than 70 motorists in Indiana in freezing temperatures, the Associated Press reported.