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While signs of economic recovery have been emerging like crocuses in this unusually early spring, helping to raise spirits about business conditions, truckers need to keep a healthy sense of caution about how much risk remains.

Survey Says Highway Diesel Will Likely Meet '06 Standards • Missouri Senate Rejects Higher Diesel Tax, Truck Fees • Nation’s Mayors Fight for Road Funds • Personal Spending Rises 0.4%; Tops Expectations • And more...

WASHINGTON — Petroleum refiners suing to stop a rule requiring a sharply reduced level of sulfur in diesel fuel warned the U.S. Court of Appeals here Feb. 26 that fuel shortages would result if the Environmental Protection Agency goes ahead with its plan.

WASHINGTON — Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administrator Joseph M. Clapp announced during remarks to transportation journalists and lobbyists the names of five people who lost their lives in truck-related crashes.

The nation’s oldest labor union, the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, said Wednesday that it is considering a merger with the Teamsters union, Reuters reported.

A unit of FedEx Corp. is handling mail shipments between the U.S. Postal Service and two offsite irradiation facilities until the national mail carrier sets up its own equipment for destroying anthrax and other iological contaminants, FedEx officials confirmed.

Most Air Cargo Still Not Being Inspected • Unplugged Machine Shuts Down LAX • Conn. Man Charged with Helping Terrorists Get IDs • Electric Companies Told to Upgrade Security • And more...

Manufacturing in the Chicago area grew in February, a survey by the Institute for Supply Management reported Thursday, marking the first expansion in 19 months.

If terrorists tried to commandeer a truck hauling a potentially lethal load - fuel or chemicals, for example - what could be done to stop them? In the search for answers to that and related questions, carriers, shippers, regulators, researchers and systems vendors are exploring how information technology can help provide or enhance security in trucking.

The gross domestic product, the total value of all goods and services produced in the United States, rose at a revised 1.4% annual rate in the fourth quarter of 2001, the Commerce Department said Thursday.