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Saddam Calls for Arab Oil Exporters to Stop U.S. Sales • Illinois Marks $2.3 Billion for Highways • CSX Reports Rise in 1Q Profits • Scania's Earnings Drop 33% on Weak Demand • And more...

WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats attacked the Bush administration's voluntary guidelines for reducing musculoskeletal injuries in the workplace and endorsed legislation to require the Labor Department to issue ergonomics regulations instead.

SAN DIEGO — Executives of the six major U.S. truck manufacturers predicted a slowly improving truck market, citing an upturn in used truck values and downplaying worries about the changeover to cleaner-burning diesel engines later this year.

The Department of Energy began filling up the Strategic Petroleum Reserve this month on schedule.

Gasoline Prices Fall in Parts of Calif., Texas • Kimack to Head Vitran LTL Unit • Bush Has Other Sites in Mind for Oil Exploration • Crude Oil Prices Fall as Mideast Tensions Ease • Yellow's Profits Up; Takes $75M Accounting Charge • And more...

Two major trucking industry figures – one of them a former president of the American Trucking Associations – passed from the scene last week, both on April 17.

In another sign that the manufacturing sector is gaining strength, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia said Thursday that its monthly general economic index increased to 12.3 in April from 11.4 the month before.

Calif. Ports Unveil Security Plan • TSA Seeking 72,000 Workers, Congress Stunned • Blast Suspect No Terrorist, Family Says • S.C. Threatens to Block Plutonium Trucks • And more...

The Conference Board said Thursday that its index of leading economic indicators, increased 0.1% in March, the fifth rise in the past six months, but well below the 0.3% increase analysts expected.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor.Events since the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington on Sept. 11 make it clear that there has been a paradigm shift in how this nation looks at transportation security.