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While Wall Street and economists are fretting about the staying power of the economic recovery, good news is expected to begin arriving this week in the form of sharply higher second-quarter earnings for publicly traded trucking firms.

While Wall Street continues to express its doubts about the strength of the U.S. economic recovery that is under way, most trucking companies say that business is continuing to improve.

TransCore Holdings, a major electronic load board operator, reported a tripling of activity across its U.S.-Canadian network in May, calling it the busiest May the company has seen in 10 years.

What does every intermodal shipment need that no one wants to really talk about? The answer — and the elephant in the room — is an intermodal chassis.

Officials with the Port of Los Angeles and Long Beach said shipping terminals were open and operating this week during negotiations between terminal operators and a striking shipping clerks union.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration sent its new hours-of-service proposal to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood’s office for review in late June, according to a Department of Transportation report issued early this month.

Wholesale inventories rose 0.5% in May, while sales fell, the Commerce Department said Friday.

Cummins Inc. said Friday it plans to invest about $100 million to expand its high-horsepower engine plant in Seymour, Ind., to add more lines of clean-diesel and natural gas engines in the future.

Great Dane Trailers president and chief operating officer Phill Pines will retire at the end of this year after more than 50 years in the trailer industry, the company said Thursday.