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International Asset Systems introduced an Internet service that allows shipping lines, container lessors and intermodal companies to exchange information about equipment availability and location.

Transportation consultants have come up with three strategies for dealing with a possible trade traffic jam along Interstate 35.

Though well into his 80s, Benjamin Layton still remembers the trucking experiences of his youth — no matter how hard he tries to forget them.

Snapping a streak of seven weeks of increases, the retail price of diesel fuel edged downward by 0.4 cent to a national average of $1.08 a gallon on April 19.

Trucking’s chief regulator put on a softer face as she outlined a three-pronged approach to improve truck safety that includes education, enforcement and expanded use of technology.

Schneider National, the nation’s largest truckload carrier, expects to boost its intermodal business 20% this year and expand the number of intermodal containers in its fleet from 750 to 2,000.

The federal fee for hazardous materials transport registration would take a big jump for a relatively small number of larger carriers and shippers under a new proposal advanced by a cash-hungry Research and Special Programs Administration.

The reviews are in on the Department of Transportation’s draft study of truck size and weight. And depending on the reviewer, the study is good, bad or downright ugly.

The wheels of justice continue to grind slowly in the case of the consent decrees six diesel engine makers signed with the Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency in October.