Many of the nation’s largest shippers will oppose any government effort to mandate a fuel surcharge, according to the top lawyer of one of the most important shipper organizations in the country.

Emery Worldwide Airlines must continue to move Priority Mail, according to a federal judge, but the U.S. Postal Service must move more quickly toward reaching an agreement that would offer the carrier better compensation for its work.

United Parcel Service is crying foul now that rivals FedEx Corp. and the U.S. Postal Service are considering the formation of an alliance.

The Defense Department will soon award a contract to see if it can save taxpayer dollars by using third-party logistics firms to orchestrate the movement of its massive quantities of materiel.

The Defense Department will soon award a contract to see if it can save taxpayer dollars by using third-party logistics firms to orchestrate the movement of its massive quantities of materiel.

Surging oil prices could bring catastrophic bankruptcy rates to trucking within nine months, according to a stock analyst who has studied the historic correlation between changes in fuel prices and company failures.

Associates First Capital Corp., one of the nation’s largest suppliers of credit for trucking equipment purchases, will become a subsidiary of financial titan Citigroup, the two companies announced Sept. 6. he deal is a stock swap valued at $31.1 billion.

Surging oil prices could bring catastrophic bankruptcy rates to trucking within nine months, according to a stock analyst who has studied the historic correlation between changes in fuel prices and company failures.

Over the protests of some trucking companies, the Defense Department has decreed that motor carriers must sign up with the PowerTrack online rate-payment system by Sept. 30 if they want to haul military freight for the government.

Over the protests of some trucking companies, the Defense Department has decreed that motor carriers must sign up with the PowerTrack online rate-payment system by Sept. 30 if they want to haul military freight for the government.