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TOLEDO, Ohio — Members of a key shippers’ group vented their frustrations over what they said was slow and inadequate freight service to railroad officials who were not able to offer immediate hope for faster transportation of the shippers’ goods.

The price of crude oil futures in New York rose to a record $46.65 a barrel on Friday on speculation a recall vote in Venezuela would disrupt shipments from the fourth-largest supplier to the United States, Bloomberg reported.

Retail sales in the United States rose 0.7% in July after a decrease in June that was less than initially reported, the Commerce Department reported Thursday.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, its parent Department of Transportation and the Justice Department have not decided on their response to a federal court’s rejection of FMCSA’s revised driver hours-of-service rules, agency spokesmen told Transport Topics.

The price of crude oil futures rose to records again on Thursday in New York and London as several production disruptions limited supplies.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. his letter is in response to testimony submitted on behalf of American Trucking Associations at the June 15 hearing of the Senate Energy Committee. That testimony contained misrepresentations about biodiesel that must be corrected.

Two Storms Force Evacuations in Florida • Initial Jobless Claims Fall by 4,000 • Profits Rise at Boyd Bros. • Import Prices Rise 0.2% in July • And more...

The number of truck-related fatalities on U.S. highways increased to 4,986 in 2003 from 4,939 the year before, but it was only the second time since 1995 the number was lower than 5,000, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Tuesday.

Component and raw-material shortages have spread to some of the largest key suppliers in the heavy-duty truck manufacturing industry, cutting potential big-rig production by about 10% this year, the head of the nation’s largest truck manufacturer said.

False Tip Leads Coast Guard to Keep Load of Lemons Out of U.S. • N.M. Sees Increase in Drug Smuggling • Tougher N.J. Security for Licenses Leads to More Arrests