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House Passes Supplemental Funding Bill • High-Tech Trucks to Detect Dirty Bombs • TSA Funding Cuts Will Cause Delays, Mineta Warns • Postal Service Backs International Mail Search Bill • And more...

As the Texas Department of Transportation begins a series of local hearings on where to locate safety-inspection stations for in-coming Mexican trucks, the mayor of Laredo, Texas, threatened to block plans to place federal and state truck inspection facilities at border-crossing bridges, which she said would worsen traffic backups.

Many of us in the transportation industry have heard customers ask about steps our businesses are taking to ensure safe delivery of their goods. After Sept. 11, people’s minds spring to an image of terrorists hijacking trucks and moving vans.

Congress Reaches Corporate Crime Compromise • White House Says Economy Is Growing Solidly • Despite Slumping Markets, Fed Unlikely to Lower Rates, Bloomberg Says • API Report Spurs Oil Prices Higher • And more...

America's focus on security cannot be limited to just one area, Jeffrey Beatty said during an online chat with TTNews.com users Wednesday.

The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety said Tuesday that more than half of all fatal crashes involving a car and a heavy-duty truck are caused by driver error, and most of those are by drivers of the cars.

The nationwide average price of diesel fuel rose for the fifth straight week, the Department of Energy reported Monday, adding 1.1 cents a gallon to stand at $1.311.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor.The TT 100 report contained in this issue makes official what most of us already knew: 2001 was a tough year to be in the trucking industry.

WASHINGTON — The new, longer labor pact between the Teamsters and United Parcel Service could be a harbinger for the less-than-truckload and vehicle-moving industries, which must both negotiate their own deals with the union to replace contracts that will expire in 2003.

Port Union Told to Reject Contract Offer • Daimler to Offer Dodge Commercial Van • Venezuela Says Will Comply With OPEC • UPS Sees 3Q Profits at 50 Cents to 55 Cents • And more...