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For the second consecutive week, the average retail price of diesel fuel in the United States rose 0.5 cent per gallon, the Department of Energy reported Monday.

Engine Makers Say They’ll Meet ’07 Requirements • Navistar Says First-Quarter Loss to Narrow • Freightliner Selects Goodyear as Standard Tire Supplier • N.Y. Factory Index Falls From Record in December • And more...

President Bush named Kirk Van Tine as the Department of Transportation's acting deputy secretary, DOT said Dec. 11. The appointment puts him in the department’s number two position.

Producer prices in the United States declined 0.3% in November, the first decrease in six months, the Labor Department reported Friday.

Joining a growing number of truckload carriers responding to the potential for new federal hours-of-service rules to cut drivers’ earnings, three companies last week announced a variety of driver-pay increases.

No consensus has been reached on how to ensure that equipment such as intermodal chassis are properly maintained, despite statements by some members of an intermodal industry working group, American Trucking Associations said last week.

Preliminary Consumer Sentiment Index Drops • Yellow Roadway Corp. Names Executives • U.S. Trade Deficit Widens in October • USF Begins Mexican Joint Venture • And more...

Yellow Expects Profits of $3 a Share After Buying Roadway • Jobless Claims Rise by 13,000 in Latest Week • November Import Prices Rise 0.4% • Owens to Replace Retiring Barton as Caterpillar Chairman, CEO • And more...

Retail sales in the United States rose 0.9% in November to $322.4 billion on surging vehicle and electronics purchases, the Commerce Department reported Thursday..

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor.I find it troubling that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is changing drivers’ hours-of-service rules, and nobody is saying anything about compensating drivers.