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Another Winter Snow Blankets the South • UPS Said to Eye Tyco Capital Purchase • Senate Abandons Economic Stimulus • Freightliner On Right Track, Daimler Executive Says • And more...

Zinc-Air Bus Demonstraton Set for D.C. • Security Technology Seen As a Growing Market • Qualcomm, Vos Logistics Sign Three-Year Deal • IBM to Unveil Small, Powerful Computer • And more ...

Orders for transportation equipment drove new orders placed with U.S. factories, as measured by the Commerce Department, to a 1.2% increase in December, with analysts predicting more increases in the months to come, Bloomberg reported.

Before Sept. 11, security in trucking meant protecting equipment and cargo from accident or criminal activity. Since that infamous date, security also has come to mean keeping potential terrorists or other bad guys from turning your truck into a bomb.

The USA Patriot Act requires the Department of Transportation to certify that drivers of hazardous cargo are not potential terrorists. Specific rules for screening these drivers likely will be issued in February and take effect in April.

NTSB Says Driver Fatigue Blamed in Fatal Crash • Daschle Says Stimulus Package Dead • Daimler Expects Lower Truck Sales in North America • Utah Warns of Congestion as Olympics Near • And more...

President Bush sent Congress his fiscal 2003 budget on Monday, heavy on defense and homeland security, but with his tax cuts meant to spark the U.S. economy still in place.

ATA’s America’s Road Team to Get Facelift • Con-Way Canada to Open New Facilities • Transportation Logistics to Buy Xcalibur • Foreign Leaders Less Rosy on Recovery • And more...

The Teamsters union and United Parcel Service kicked off negotiations over a new contract Jan. 30 with both sides saying they want to avoid a repeat of a 15-day strike in 1997.

Contract negotiations between United Parcel Service and the Teamsters got off to an amiable start last week, as both sides exchanged non-economic proposals and established a schedule for formal talks.