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GAO Report Faults Air-Cargo Security • U.S. to Lift Mad-Cow Restrictions on Canadian Beef • Trucker’s Retrial Delayed in Smuggling-Deaths Case • Atty. General Seeks New Anti-Counterfeiting Laws

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. he Federal Reserve may be close to ending an 18-month series of interest rate increases, according to the minutes of the Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee Nov. 1 meeting, which were released Tuesday.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. he shippers’ group Nasstrac, also known as the National Small Shipments Traffic Conference, said it has broadened its coverage to cover all modes and market segments of transportation.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. eneral Motors Corp. plans to close nine North American plants and cut 30,000 jobs in an effort to trim costs, news services reported Monday.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. img src="http://www.ttnews.com/images/printeditiontag_new.gif" width=120 align=right>PHOENIX — Trucking executives called for greater cooperation among diesel refiners, fuel transporters and retailers, and warned that carriers will have to monitor their fuel sources for quality as the industry makes the transition to ultra-low-sulfur diesel and 2007 model trucks late next year.

International to Offer Anti-Idling System by Spring • Kenworth Offering Eaton's Vorad System on Some Models • Savi, Intermec Develop New RFID System

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. he index of U.S. leading economic indicators rose 0.9% in October following three months of declines, the Conference Board reported Monday.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. ess-than-truckload carrier Yellow Roadway Corp. said Monday that Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Bill Zollars adopted a stock trading plan under which up to 117,860 of the 272,325 stock options he holds may be sold.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. he federal government has pledged more than $3 million to deepen a channel that would help a planned container terminal in Texas City, Texas, the Galveston County (Texas) Daily News reported.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. exico will revamp and add to its refineries to produce the ultra-low-sulfur diesel fuel it will need by the end of 2008, and in the meantime will buy ULSD from U.S. sources for a handful of retrofitted trucks used in making cross-border deliveries, Mexican officials said.