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The Ontario Trucking Association and the National Truckers Association, both based in Ontario, have caught the attention of the provincial government and are working with them to avert threatened shutdowns in trucking services because of fuel prices.

An economic slowdown will hurt trucking this year, but growth will make truck traffic rise at an annual rate of 3% to 3.5% a year between 2002 and 2005, according to one of the industry’s leading economic analysts.

Representatives of shippers, carriers and logistics companies came together at the Nasstrac fall meeting to air out their needs, hopes and fears — both for themselves and for each other.

Both government and business leaders say collaboration is necessary in today's marketplace to lower production and other costs, but such alliancs have to be carefully constructed to avoid antitrust violations.

Through an agreement with AT&T Wireless Services, the 7,100 drivers of Landstar System will have access to the company’s Intranet through Web-enabled cellular phones.

In the news this morning: Reports grow of deal on hours of service; online freight arranger Transportal scales back; oil prices rise again as U.S. inventories drop; and more.

This afternoon's headlines: Freightliner will cancel Western Star-Grupo Dina agreement; tanker shortage may crimp oil flow; Mitsubishi reported firing quality assurance head; and more.

Today's technology headlines: Deutsche Telekom's purchase of VoiceStream may see a hurdle removed; France Telecom to build Internet backbone in U.S.; analysts say e-commerce will change shipping patterns and packaging size; and more.

The owners of Schneider National think they are lucky enough to have a commodity that stock market investors want in abundance — public shares of their logistics division — and they think that now is the time to sell it.

The proliferation of online exchanges over the past two years among trucking-related companies have many casting a watchful eye toward the federal government to see how it may react to such business practices.