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U.S. new housing starts fell 7.9% in February from January, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.

The number of workers filing initial unemployment claims rose by 5,000 last week to 309,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday.

Changes in distribution patterns by shippers are combining with well-known industry issues of high fuel prices, a shortage of drivers, modifications to hours-of-service rules and highway congestion to drive down the average number of miles that a truck hauls a shipment, according to several carriers and shippers.

Western freight railroad Union Pacific Corp. late Tuesday raised its first-quarter earnings projection to a range of $1 to $1.10 per share, from its previous 80- to 90-cent projection.

Imported goods prices fell 0.5% in January, the Labor Department said Thursday. The decline was the same when excluding oil prices, Labor said.

The pace of manufacturing growth in New York state gained increased this month, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Wednesday.

The safety director of American Trucking Associations — which recently called for factory-installed speed governors on large trucks — said requiring the use of governors would probably need a government mandate.

Making our highways safer is in everyone’s interest and is everyone’s job. While virtually all Americans use roadways to get to work and to the store, for the trucking industry highways are also our workplaces.

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Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. f American Trucking Associations wants us all to go 68 mph and that truck goes out West, like mine do, or down to Florida, the unit would be running under the speed limit.