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Business hopes that the Federal Reserve might go ahead and cut interest rates this week, instead of waiting for its March 20 policy panel meeting, were doused Wednesday as Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan addressed the House Financial Services Committee.

Many of the truckload carriers that have fueled the truck sales boom in recent years are now cutting back on purchases and keeping equipment on the road longer because of a slowing economy.

The U.S. trailer industry closed out 2000 with shipments 20% below the previous year, mirroring the truck manufacturing industry.

Johnson Controls To Cut 300 Jobs; Parts-Maker Core Materials Blames Trucks for Loss; OTR Shows 4Q Loss, Downsizing Plans; U.S. Economic Growth Revised Weaker; and more . . .

News services reported a significant earthquake hit the region that includes Seattle, Portland Ore. and Vancouver, B.C.

A new industry-driven certification and incentives program for moving companies in Texas has the possibility of growing into a national program.

Because of a 1998 seven-fatality crash, the Pennsylvania Turnpike will build several new service plazas for motorists and refurbish old plazas to be used exclusively by trucks.

NJ Township Says Drivers Beware of Phone Ban; Broadband's a Nice Pace if You Can Get It; AT&T Wireless Could Pay Nearly $1 Billion to Airwave artners; Cargill Is Serving Up E-Commerce; Creating the Formula to Aid the Back Office.

In a ruling that has major implications for the U.S. trucking industry, the Supreme Court on Tuesday voted unanimously to support the way the federal government sets air quality standards.

The Environmental Protection Agency has agreed to let six diesel engine makers install pollution-control shutoff equipment on their 2002 engines, three years after imposing more than $1 billion in penalties on the manufacturers for using similar “defeat devices” to beat clean air tests.