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Employers added 78,000 workers to payrolls in May and the unemployment rate fell to 5.1%, the Labor Department said Friday.

The Environmental Protection Agency said it rejected waivers requested by several states to stop using gasoline additives linked to air pollution.

Rail freight traffic rebounded in the last week of May, turning around two weeks of declines, and intermodal levels continued to rise, the Association of American Railroads reported.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. oday, the U.S. transportation network no longer enjoys the luxury of overcapacity that regulation afforded. It is plagued by congestion, which slows the delivery of goods.

Transport Topics Publishing Group has hired Tarun Reddy as a staff reporter to cover a range of government and business topics.

WASHINGTON - American Trucking Associations President Bill Graves said Friday that ATA and industry stakeholders were asking Congress to pass legislation offering tax incentives on new trucks as a way to ease trucking’s transition to the use of cleaner-burning engines beginning in 2007.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. he Environmental Protection Agency said Friday that it is planning a new program to test on-highway diesel truck and bus emissions more accurately and less expensively.

Orders placed with factories rose 0.9% in April, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.

A story posted on TTNews.com on Wednesday morning misstated the position of the Intermodal Association of North America, and its president, Joni Casey, over the issue of responsibility for intermodal chassis maintenance and safety.

U.S. workers’ productivity grew at a 2.9% annual rate in the first quarter, the Labor Department reported Thursday.