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The House passed legislation last week authorizing $2.85 billion for the development of electric and hybrid technologies that can be used to create alternative-energy vehicles.

The Obama administration last week issued its proposed new fuel efficiency and first-ever national greenhouse gases reduction standards for passenger cars and light trucks.

After a year in which the trucking industry has been battered by a recession and buffeted by political change, members of American Trucking Associations will gather next month in Las Vegas to celebrate surviving the storm and to rally one another in preparation for the coming rebound.

Sales of new heavy-duty trucks in the United States fell 33.3% in August from year-ago levels, the eighth consecutive monthly decline.

The U.S. retail diesel average price fell 1.3 cents to $2.634 a gallon in its second consecutive post-Labor Day dip, the Department of Energy said last week.

Freight broker failures have skyrocketed at least 74% in the past 12 months, as they are caught in a financial squeeze between some slower-paying shippers and the carriers who want to be paid promptly for hauling freight, industry officials said.

Manufacturing levels in the Philadelphia showed expansion for a second straight month in September, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia said Thursday.

Logistics and delivery firm Dynamex Inc.’s fiscal fourth-quarter profit fell to $1.8 million, or 18 cents a share, from $4.6 million, or 45 cents, a year ago.

Initial jobless claims fell by 12,000 last week to 545,000, the Labor Department said Thursday.

U.S. housing starts rose 1.5% to a nine-month high in August, the Commerce Department said Thursday.