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Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. rude oil and gasoline jumped in overnight trading on concerns that Hurricane Rita would damage more oil refineries in the Gulf Coast region, and natural gas prices reached a record high, Bloomberg reported Thursday.

Logistics and delivery firm Dynamex Inc. reported net income of $2.7 million or 23 cents a share for its fourth fiscal 2005 quarter ended July 31, compared with $3.1 million or 26 cents a year earlier.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. An American Trucking Associations study released in May confirmed the pinch that all of us in the logistics industry are feeling. The study’s authors predicted that the current driver shortage of 20,000 would increase to more than 110,000 in less than 10 years.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. he number of U.S. workers filing initial unemployment benefits jumped by 8,000 last week to the highest level in more than two years, following dislocations and job losses in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. he index of U.S. leading economic indicators fell in August for a second straight month as rising gasoline prices lowered consumer confidence even before Hurricane Katrina made landfall, the Conference Board reported Thursday.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. day after being upgraded to a Category 5 hurricane, Hurricane Rita was downgraded Thursday afternoon to a Category 4 storm, the second-strongest of the five hurricane levels, the National Hurricane Center said.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. ttorneys for the federal government delivered rail-security documents to a federal judge Thursday related to the District of Columbia's plan to ban hazardous rail shipments near the U.S. Capitol.

FMCSA Issues Relief Effort Waivers • TSA Names Deputy Administrator • Rail Safety Improved Over '04, FRA Says • Court to Hear Railroad Hazmat Case • And More...

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. proposal by a former Virginia governor that would require motorists who use the state’s interstate highways to pay tolls via open-road tolling at 38 locations has drawn criticism from the trucking industry and lawmakers.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. ARSHALL, Mich. — Dana Corp. said it would introduce its version of an air-ride suspension for steer axles in late 2006, joining a market increasingly receptive to that style of component on linehaul trucks.