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This afternoon's headlines: Ohio Turnpike traffic increases despite trucker protests of higher tolls; New rail service to rival trucking; and E-retailers eye overseas dollars.

In the news this morning: Ryder plans to sell bus unit; amid many sea changes, IKEA seeks consistency from carriers; and last of 'Big Dig' wage cases settled as law is under study.

CSX Corp. says it will sell Sea-Land Service, Inc.'s international liner business to A.P. Moller-Maersk Line for $800 million. The deal includes 70 ships and several container terminals.

A federal grand jury in Richmond, Va., charged a mother and two of her three sons with running a violent hijacking ring along the Interstate 95 corridor that preyed on independent truckers.

According to two General Accounting Office studies, the Defense Department isn't likely to choose a new way of shipping the household goods of service members any time soon.

The Federal Highway Administration extended the deadline to participate in its paperless logs pilot program for a second time.

This afternoon's headlines: Rollins Truck Leasing reports higher third quarter earnings; Oshkosh Truck increases operating capacity; and Truck driver cited in Wash. bus crash.

An untold number of interstate truckers is about to lose their shortcuts through New Jersey after Gov. Christie Whitman last week banned tractor-trailers from two-lane, undivided highways.

For the first time since January 1998, some of the biggest U.S. trucking companies are hitting shippers with rate surcharges, triggered by rising fuel prices.

It’s tax-cutting season on Capitol Hill, and so far, trucking interests are getting the short end of the stick as Congress debates how much of a break citizens and companies should receive.