ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø

New home sales jumped 13.8% in March, the biggest jump in almost 12 years, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday.

Colorado Enacts Trucker-Backed Security Laws • Distracted Driving Leads to Most Crashes, Study Shows

Eastern freight rail line Norfolk Southern Corp. reported Wednesday it earned $305 million or 72 cents a share in the first quarter, up 57% from $194 million or 47 cents a year earlier.

The Bush administration will conduct background checks on an estimated 400,000 port workers to ensure they do not pose a terrorist threat, the Associated Press reported Tuesday.

Durable goods orders jumped 6.1% in March from February, the Commerce Department said Wednesday.

Transportation and logistics firm C.H. Robinson Worldwide late Tuesday reported first-quarter net income of $58.1 million or 33 cents a share, up from $41.8 million or 24 cents a year earlier.

Several truck and brake manufacturers disagreed sharply with safety advocates over how much the Department of Transportation should cut heavy-truck stopping distances, with the manufacturers preferring a less-drastic reduction while another brake maker and safety groups pressed for shorter distances and mandated disc brakes.

The long-awaited intermodal chassis safety rule from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration was undergoing the final stages of a review last week before being sent to the Office of Management and Budget, a spokesman for the agency said.

While reading your article on longer and heavier truck limits, I was struck by the reference to the capacity shortage now facing the industry and, as result, the country.

The U.S. economy continued to expand across most of the country, and truck carriers and manufacturers reported relatively strong indicators, according to a report issued Wednesday by the nation’s 12 Federal Reserve districts.