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Heavy Snows Slow Buffalo, Other Areas • Security Delays Slow Trucks at U.S.-Canada Ambassador Bridge • OPEC, Others to Cut Oil Production • Frozen Food Express Spins Off Subsidiary • And more...

The U.S. economy, which fell into recession in March, contracted at a 1.3% annual rate in the third quarter, even weaker than the Commerce Department had previously estimated, but Friday's gross domestic product report left many analysts feeling encouraged heading into 2002.

Freightliner to Consolidate Operations • Bush Says Economy May Not Need Stimulus • Congress Adjourns Without Terrorism Insurance Bill • Consumer Sentiment Index Rises in December • And more...

Insurance has replaced fuel as a primary cost concern for motor carriers, and several participants in the Transport Topics Management Outlook Forum are looking to Congress to act to head off a crisis.

Click here to write your own Letter to the Editor.If there were a driver shortage, trucking companies would have pricing power and be able to raise rates.

Atlas Maintains the Mainframe • New Logistics Approaches Save Time • Utah Pumps Up Technology for Olympic Games

The new head of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, Joseph M. Clapp, will seek the cooperation of trucking companies in the effort to reduce truck-related fatalities 50% by 2008.

Senate Passes Port Security Bill • Con-Way’s Fuel Surcharge to Go to Zero • GM Pushes for Daytime Headlights • Florida Recalls More CDLs • And more...

Although still in a slump, manufacturing in the Philadelphia area in December improved much more than had been expected..

New Wireless Technology Reduces Radio Interference • Kmart Turns to High-Tech Management • Bluetooth Technology Broadens Horizons • Web Sites Could Pose Legal Risk