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Truck tonnage in February dropped 9.2% from year-ago levels, but inched up 1.7% from the low totals in January, American Trucking Associations reported last week.

For freight brokers adept at working in the middle of transactions between carriers and shippers, the recession is changing the game.

A federal appeals court has thrown out the Port of Los Angeles’ ban on owner-operators and questioned the legality of concession requirements at the adjacent Long Beach port for drayage operators to file financial statements and give hiring preferences to experienced port drivers.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the United States is “working very hard to achieve a resolution” to a trade dispute that led to Mexico imposing tariffs on U.S. goods valued at more than $2 billion after President Obama signed a law ending a cross-border trucking plan.

U.S. consumer confidence rose slightly this month, but still remains near its lowest point in three decades, according to the Reuters/University of Michigan’s final monthly consumer sentiment index released Friday.

China passed the United States last year to become the world’s second largest auto-producing nation behind Japan, according to a California research firm.

Rail and intermodal traffic continued to decline along with the economy last week, the Association of American Railroads said Thursday.

Consumer personal spending rose in February for the second consecutive month, the Commerce Department said Friday.

For the first time since the recession cut a huge hole in the center of the nation’s economic activity, some analysts are beginning to report that the worst may be over.

The private sector has plenty to worry about at the moment. On a global scale, there are the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and Iran’s nuclear issues.