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Millions of Americans turn their personal goals into New Year’s resolutions. In a sense, trucking CEOs also make New Year’s resolutions for their firms: the annual operating plan. But while failing to keep individual resolutions is disappointing, when a trucking company leader fails to “make plan,” the financial results can be catastrophic.

Compliance and safety services provider RAIR said Friday that it has named JJ Singh as its new president and chief executive officer.

U.S. intermodal rail traffic rose 1.3% last week compared with the same week last year, the Association of American Railroads said.

The Jan. 4 Opinion piece, “Workers’ Comp and Our Aging Workforce,” has to be the most biased article I have ever read.

Usually in Washington, as elsewhere, something has to be broken, or at least underperforming, before some branch of the government moves to repair or replace it. That being the case, you might ask why the Department of Transportation is looking to tinker around with its hours-of-service rule.

When passive radio frequency identification began its rise almost a decade ago, hopes ran high that the new technology, which offers hands-free operation and doesn’t require a direct line of sight, would help to free the shipping industry from labor-intensive bar-code tracking, which often requires handheld devices to read labels and is consequently much prone to human error.

Universal Truckload Services Inc. said it has acquired three companies that offer a variety of transportation services, continuing the company’s plan to grow through acquisitions.

Diamond Phoenix and System Logistics have completed their merger and are now operating as one company under the System Logistics Corp. name, the company said Wednesday.