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TSA Adds to Management Team • Hutchinson Begins Work at DHS • Ridge Sworn In as Security Department Chief •

It's a dilemma many smaller carriers grapple with: How do you retain loyal customers and still expand into new profitable lanes? In some circumstances, in-house brokerages provide a logical answer to the industry’s capacity-and-demand problem.

Cummins Sees 4Q Earnings Boost After Tax Adjustment • Covenant Transport Reverses 4Q Loss • Bush Proposes Fuel Cell Research Funding • Nominee Snow Backs Bush Tax Plan •

As expected by analysts, the Federal Open Market Committee of the Federal Reserve said Wednesday that it was leaving its benchmark interest rate unchanged.

U.S. consumer confidence slipped for the seventh time in eight months, the New York-based Conference Board said Tuesday, falling to a nine-year low in January.

Miss. Transportation Officials Pushing for Longer Trailers • Graves Asks Bush for More Insurance Reform • USF Red Star, Teamsters Ink Deal • UPS' International Unit Pushes Earnings Higher • And more ...

 The Business Council of Alabama said it had named former American Trucking Associations' head William J. Canary its new president.

A federal court decision that prevented Mexico-based carriers from starting to operate throughout the United States could be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, representatives on both sides of the issue told Transport Topics.

Mobile communications and information technology can speed a carrier's response in the event of a mishap.

WASHINGTON — Truckers and shippers blasted a new security proposal from the Customs Service, saying it would destroy current logistics practices and threaten just-in-time deliveries.