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Transport Topics Publishing Group said it has unveiled an online resource called Transport Topics CareerCenter for employers and job seekers.

Rail intermodal traffic jumped 8.7% last week compared with the same week last year, the Association of American Railroads reported.

Ford Motor Co. plants to close plants in Minnesota and Virginia in 2008 as part of its restructuring plan, the automaker said Thursday. Both facilities make light trucks.

A persistent shortage of freight-hauling capacity and the reluctance of many fleets to make trailers available for loading and unloading are leading shippers to use more of their own trailers to manage the distribution of their goods, trucking and trailer industry officials said.

In the largest privatization of a highway project in U.S. history, Indiana officials signed a $3.8 billion agreement to turn the 157-mile Indiana Toll Road over to a Spanish-Australian group that will operate the road for the next 75 years, the Associated Press reported.

ARLINGTON, Va. — Trucking industry leaders and shippers resumed their call for longer, heavier trucks on the interstate system, saying bigger vehicles will help ease the freight-capacity crunch without posing a safety problem.

Industrial production rose 0.6% in March, the Federal Reserve said Friday.

U.S. retail sales rose 0.6% in March, following a drop in February, the Commerce Department said Thursday.

The Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association is pushing for a statewide database that would compile employer records on drivers’ drug test results, in an effort to weed out problem truckers, the Associated Press reported.

Air cargo carrier Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings earned $27.5 million or $1.32 a share in the fourth quarter of last year, compared with $27 million or $1.32 a year earlier.