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There is no driver shortage for organizations that understand productivity, process capability and continuous improvement. How the organization thinks determines the extent of driver retention and whether a driver shortage is real or just an outcome of poor management.

There are worrisome signs that commodities speculators are returning to the nation’s fuel markets, pushing prices higher than the normal forces of supply and demand would warrant.

Consumer confidence rose to a six-month high this month, according to the preliminary monthly Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index released Friday.

The price of goods imported to the United States jumped by 1.3% in November, the highest this year, the Labor Department said Friday.

Intermodal traffic rose 13.8% last week from a year ago, the Association of American Railroads said.

Air and freight forwarder UTi Worldwide’s fiscal third-quarter net income jumped to $26.4 million, or 26 cents a share, from $18 million, or 18 cents, a year earlier.

By Rip Watson, Senior Reporter

This story appears in the Dec. 13 print edition of Transport Topics.

A bill that would have enabled construction of a new, publicly owned bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, has died in the Michigan legislature.

The Idaho Transportation Department scheduled hearings late last week on whether to issue overweight, oversize transport permits for four massive loads of refinery equipment after a state administrative law judge nullified permits the state had issued to ConocoPhillips Co. in October.

The status of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s plan to release carrier safety information through the Compliance Safety and Accountability program remained uncertain at press time because an appeals court had not ruled on a motion to halt the move.