Business

President Obama’s 2014 budget contains a one-time boost of $27 billion for “critical highway infrastructure” and cross-border roads to augment the $41 billion Congress has already authorized for highways next year.

Federal officials are cracking down on moving companies that try to evade regulations for household-goods movers, saying companies that provide moving containers and the laborers to load the containers should be treated as movers under the law.

Substandard highway infrastructure in the United States will make it difficult for trucking to handle the additional freight demand at East and Gulf Coast ports once expansion of the Panama Canal is completed, a leader of American Trucking Associations told a Senate panel.

As contract negotiations resume this week, UPS Inc. remains “confident” that a new contract can be reached in advance of the scheduled July 31 expiration of the agreement that covers a total of 250,000 Teamster package and freight workers.

Truckload carrier Celadon Group said it will build a new driver training school near its Indianapolis headquarters in its latest effort to boost recruiting as the industry continues to face a shortage of qualified drivers.

Attorneys for American Trucking Associations and the Port of Los Angeles are scheduled to face off at the U.S. Supreme Court this week over the constitutionality of some requirements included in the port’s “clean truck” concession agreement with drayage operators.

MONTREAL — Navistar International Corp. unveiled updated versions of its International 9900i and PayStar 5900 SBA heavy-haul and severe-service models with the Cummins ISX15 engine using selective catalytic reduction technology.

More than 100 exhibitors, including some of the nation’s largest package and truckload carriers, will join logistics and distribution executives in Orlando, Fla., next week for the annual Shippers Conference and Transportation Expo.

U.S. retail diesel and gasoline prices continued to drift down from their winter highs, with both refined products declining for a sixth straight week, the Department of Energy reported.