The producer price index rose 1% in March, the Labor Department reported Friday. The core PPI excluding food and energy was unchanged.
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Corrosion Takes Increasing Toll on Fleets, Trailers
What cigarettes are to smokers, corrosion is to highway trailers.
April 16, 2007Bankruptcies Increase as Freight Declines
Trucking company failures jumped in the first quarter of 2007, and industry observers warned of tougher times ahead because of an uncertain economy, weak freight loads and rising fuel costs.
April 16, 2007IRS Says Fleets Face Sanctions
IRS officials told trucking executives that motor carriers must account properly for driver per-diem expenses or risk losing the tax-exempt status of the plans.
April 16, 2007EPA Should Delay OBD Rule, Groups Say
By Andrea Fischer, Staff Reporter
April 16, 2007Truck Stops Concerned About Supplying Urea
By Andrea Fischer, Staff Reporter
April 16, 2007Storm Pummels East Coast
A big storm brought strong winds and rain to the East Coast early Monday, flooding rivers, stranding airline flights and prompting evacuations from New Jersey to West Virginia, the Associated Press reported.
April 16, 2007Intermodal Traffic Falls Again
Rail and intermodal traffic declined last week compared with a year earlier, continuing a trend over the past month, the Association of American Railroads said Thursday.
April 12, 2007CN Workers Begin Strike
Canadian National Railway Co.s 2,800 union conductors and yard workers began rotating strikes Wednesday after rejecting a proposed one-year contract, Bloomberg reported.
April 12, 2007Exec Downplays Rail Takeovers
Norfolk Southern Corp. Chief Executive Officer Charles Wick Moorman told the Surface Transportation Board that buyout firms probably will not try to acquire major U.S. railroads because of opposition by rail management, Bloomberg reported.
April 12, 2007