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Transport Topics business coverage focuses on the financial, economic, and commercial aspects of the modern freight business. Looking at both the microeconomic and macroeconomic forces shaping bottom lines, the news in this category includes labor news, jobs reports, tonnage and sales indicators, operations analysis, money and banking, mergers, acquisitions, e-commerce, bankruptcy, insurance issues, and more.

Special Coverage, Government, Business

Graves Says Trucking Prepared for Myriad Political, Business Changes

Neil Abt | Editorial Director
October 21, 2013

Truckbase Business Overview, Features, Reviews 2024

Truckbase has emerged as the next-generation truck dispatch software leader with its suite of easy-to-use tools for truckload carriers.

Special Coverage, Business

Bush Urges Truckers to Participate in National Politics

ORLANDO, Fla. – Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) exhorted truckers to use their influence in Washington to redirect the federal government toward policies focused on economic growth through a blend of policy changes and a new approach to leadership.

Rip Watson | Special to Transport Topics
October 21, 2013
Special Coverage, Business

Tennessee’s Dave Huneryager Wins TAEC Leadership Award

ORLANDO, Fla. — Dave Huneryager, president of the Tennessee Trucking Association, was named the winner of American Trucking Associations President’s Trucking Association Executives Council Leadership Award.

Michael G. Malloy | Web Editor
October 21, 2013
Special Coverage, Business

ATA Honors 7 Trucking Executives for Service

ORLANDO, Fla. — American Trucking Associations’ honored seven trucking association executives here Oct. 21 for their distinguished service to the trucking industry.

October 21, 2013
Special Coverage, Business

Dave Barry Entertains at MC&E

ORLANDO, Fla. — Author and columnist Dave Barry only said the word “trucking” three times, but he delivered humor and guffaws to the American Trucking Associations’ Management Conference & Exhibition here.

October 21, 2013
Business, Fuel

Diesel Unchanged; Gasoline Gains 0.6 Cent

Retail prices for the nation’s two major motor fuels stopped declining, the Department of Energy said Oct. 21.

October 21, 2013
Business, Fuel

Crude Oil Closes Below $100 for First Time Since July

Crude oil finished trading at $99.68 a barrel Oct. 21, declining $1.43 to the lowest level since July 2 as the Energy Information Administration announced supplies increased, Bloomberg News reported.

October 21, 2013
Special Coverage, Business

ATA Outreach Program Sponsors Renew for 2014

ORLANDO, Fla. — Mack Trucks Inc. and Michelin North America said they will continue as the main sponsors of American Trucking Associations’ Share the Road educational program in 2014, and Volvo Truck agreed to again sponsor the America’s Road Team program.

October 21, 2013
Business

HOS Rule Tops Survey of Trucking Concerns

ORLANDO, Fla. — Changes to the federal hours-of-service rule topped the 2013 survey of critical issues facing the North American trucking industry, the American Transportation Research Institute reported.

Neil Abt | Editorial Director
October 21, 2013
Business

Indiana Announces New CDL Program

The lieutenant governor of Indiana announced a workforce training program to help provide certified truck drivers to the logistics industry in Wells County and surrounding areas.

October 21, 2013