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WASHINGTON — Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administrator Joseph M. Clapp told a House appropriations panel that an overdue report on the agency's "security sensitivity" visits to hazardous materials handlers is tied up in review by other Department of Transportation agencies.

WASHINGTON — Transportation Secretary Norman Y. Mineta will receive staff recommendations within 60 days on how to implement a nationwide identification card for transportation workers, the secretary's national security adviser told a congressional panel.

The number of new homes being built in the United States exceeded analysts’ expectations in January, jumping 6.3% to an annual rate of 1.678 million, the Department of Commerce reported Tuesday.

Post Office Goes After Package Market • Safety Experiment Keeps Trucks in Right Lane • Cummins Forms New Unit • OPEC to Maintain Cuts, Traders Say • And more...

The average retail price of diesel fuel in the United States rose 0.3 cent per gallon to $1.156, the Department of Energy said Tuesday.

A trio of indicators released Friday offered a muddled picture of a U.S. economy that may be emerging from recession -- but doing so fitfully, with a shrinking decline in industrial production, a small increase in producer prices and a slight drop in an index of consumer sentiment.

Scott Parker, a company driver for Contract Freighters Inc., runs a paperless office from his cab with supplemental services like TripPak Express and Internet access available at the truck stops he frequents.

Fred Kirschner, a Petro franchisee in Bordentown, N.J., has been in the truck stop business long enough to know that some good ideas are not as good as they sound — and sometimes new services for truckers take time to be profitable.

Gas Prices Up for Sixth Week in Southern California • Bridge Work to Close I-95 Lanes • Ryder Declares 102nd Straight Quarterly Dividend • New Penn to Replace A-P-A Transport • And more...

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are scrambling to jack up highway spending for fiscal 2003, despite the Bush administration’s reluctance to increase deficit spending during an economic downturn.