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Customs Nominee Wins Favorable Review From Users' Group
The Coalition for Customs Automation Funding likes what it sees in President Bushs nomination of Robert C. Bonner, former administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration, to become U.S. Customs Service Commissioner.
June 13, 2001Business Logistics Costs Clear $1 Trillion Mark First Time for a Year
WASHINGTON Although logistics costs for business exceeded $1 trillion for the first time in 2000 and were up two-tenths of a point as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product, the real culprit in that change was not poor inventory management but declining sales, according to a privately funded report on the economic condition of the logistics industry authored by Robert Delaney and Rosalyn Wilson.
June 13, 2001Executive Briefing - June 13
Bush to Nominate Henshaw As OSHA Chief; Caterpillar Increases Quarterly Dividend; House Committee Approves Transportation Budget; Dana Hopes to Sell Some Units; and more...
June 13, 2001Fed Paints Poor Economic Picture in Beige Book
Economic activity throughout the United States was either little changed or slowed during the past two months, according to an economic report released Wednesday by the Federal Reserve.
June 13, 2001Trucking Technology Report - June 13
Cell Phone Industry Adopts New Internet Standard; @Track to Equip Jet Corr's Fleet; SupplyLinks Folds; and more...
June 13, 2001Central Raising Rates by 5.95%
Central Freight Lines said it plans to implement a general rate increase of 5.95% on both its less-than-truckload and truckload service beginning on Aug. 6, 2001.
June 12, 2001Trucking Failures Mount
Trucking company failures continued at a rapid pace during the first quarter of the year, with 1,155 motor carriers going out of business, according to an updated study from investment broker A.G. Edwards & Sons.
June 12, 2001Tape Retrofit in Effect Except for Intermodal
A federal regulation requiring an estimated 800,000 older heavy-duty trailers and semi-trailers to be equipped with reflective tape or markers went into effect June 1.
June 12, 2001Executive Briefing - June 12
AAA Finds Gasoline Prices Decrease; Transportation.com, FBC Announce Alliance; Dell, Nokia Pessimistic on Economy; Repair Work Causes More Delays Around Atlanta; and more...
June 12, 2001Letter to the Editor: Drayage Reality
In the article about container traffic, Houston Is Dealing With Growing Pains, your reporter touched on a subject that I am very aware of drivers getting citations for pulling unsafe intermodal equipment (4-16, p. 11). A href="http://www.ttnews.com/contact/letters.asp">Click here to write your own Letter to the Editor.
June 12, 2001