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Ensuring the safe delivery of every load should be a top priority in the trucking industry. Yet, even with the most sophisticated technologies and best risk-management techniques, bad things can happen to good people — or good carriers.

Google’s recent move to forsake Net Neutrality — the premise that all content on the Web should be distributed evenhandedly — threatens to have serious consequences for trucking companies’ websites, especially if other Internet titans follow suit.

Oil traded near a two-year high close to $90 early Monday as a report showed continued high demand in China, Bloomberg reported.

UPS Inc. will require customers shipping packages to show government-issued photo identification in an effort to intensify security after explosives were found on October cargo flights, Bloomberg reported.

A huge Midwest snowstorm worked its way east Monday, stranding more than 70 motorists in Indiana in freezing temperatures, the Associated Press reported.

There is no driver shortage for organizations that understand productivity, process capability and continuous improvement. How the organization thinks determines the extent of driver retention and whether a driver shortage is real or just an outcome of poor management.

There are worrisome signs that commodities speculators are returning to the nation’s fuel markets, pushing prices higher than the normal forces of supply and demand would warrant.

Consumer confidence rose to a six-month high this month, according to the preliminary monthly Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index released Friday.

The price of goods imported to the United States jumped by 1.3% in November, the highest this year, the Labor Department said Friday.