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Union employees at Freightliner LLC's truck manufacturing plant in Portland, Ore., voted Tuesday to accept three-year labor contracts, news services reported.

The average retail price for diesel fuel rose 1.5 cents to $1.716 per gallon, the Department of Energy said Tuesday, the first weekly increase since May 17.

Tennessee implemented new requirements last week that limit driver licenses for both passenger and commercial vehicles only to U.S. citizens or permanent residents, in what state officials said was the strictest license policy in the nation.

ATA Economist Says Recovery Broad-Based Within Trucking • Survey Finds Many Large Companies Expect to Hire • Logistics Market Fragmented, NAFC Told

Flow of Global Trade Mostly Unaffected By New Security Rules • Iowa to Test Trucks for Radioactive Cargo • Terror Suspect Believed to Have Gotten CDL

Price of Crude Oil Closes at One-Month High in N.Y. • ISM Services Sector Expands at Slower Pace in June • Job-Cut Announcements Fall to Lowest Level in a Year • Knight Transportation Announces Stock Split • And more...

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration should change some of its definitions of injury and not record commercial motor vehicle accident information when the agency institutes its Site Specific Targeting Enforcement Program, American Trucking Associations said.

With another 90% reduction in particulate matter from diesel engines due by 2007, the freight-hauling industry soon will be fielding new soot-filtering technology for both heavy- and medium-duty power plants.

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. ith new generations of computer systems arriving faster than ever, motor carriers must train a large, scattered and mobile workforce without draining profits and tying up manpower.

Oregon Offers Ton-Mile Filing Online • Pa. to Offer Anti-Idling Funds to Fleets • EPA Announces Grant to Reduce Bus Emissions in Mexico