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Refrigerated truckload carrier Marten Transport’s first-quarter profit fell slightly, though trucking and logistics revenue improved due in part to higher fuel surcharges.

Backers of a proposed new bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, are pressing Michigan state legislators to act on measures that could move the project into the design and construction phase as early as this year.

The Senate Agriculture Committee is scheduled to mark up a bill Wednesday that would impose stiffer regulations on the speculative trading of commodities, but would exempt trades from legitimate commercial hedgers like trucking companies.

The Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance has scheduled its annual Roadcheck event for June 8-10, a week later than previously announced.

The huge ash cloud hanging over Europe from last week’s volcano eruption in Iceland is hampering global air freight and causing a shift in European cargo from planes to trucks, news services reported.

An index of leading economic indicators improved by 1.4% in March by the most in 10 months, the New York-based Conference Board said Monday.

ABF Freight System and the Teamsters union said they have reached a tentative agreement to modify the labor agreement for the company’s employees covered under the National Master Freight Agreement.

Several notices pointing toward recovery in trucking and the economy at large are one pleasant side of the news last week.

Truckload carrier Heartland Express said its first-profit slipped to $11.9 million, or 13 cents a share, from $14.1 million, or 15 cents, a year ago.