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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.

Business, Government, Safety, Logistics

Freight Results Still Mixed, Executive Says

Although the U.S. economy continues to improve, there remains a spottiness within the freight-hauling sector, a logistics executive said.

May 23, 2011
Business

FMCSA Overspent $23 Million for Wireless Weigh Stations

A federal program aimed at helping states buy technology to speed trucks wirelessly through weigh stations obligated spending more than $23 million above the level Congress authorized, according to a new government review of the program.

May 23, 2011
Business, Safety, Autonomous

Wickham Receives Earl Dove Award; ATA Cites Vision, Leadership of ATRI

American Trucking Associations paid tribute on May 15 to longtime trucking executive Michael Wickham with its highest award.

May 23, 2011
Business, Fuel

Gasoline Drops 9¢ to $3.91 a Gallon, Lundberg Says

Gasoline dropped 9 cents in the past two weeks to a national average $3.91 per gallon, according to the latest Lundberg Survey of filling stations released Sunday.

May 23, 2011
Business

Missouri Tornado Damages Con-way Truckload’s Headquarters

Con-way Inc. said Monday its truckload division is continuing to operate out of its Joplin, Mo., headquarters, despite some damage from Sunday evening’s huge tornado that killed at least 89 people in the city.

May 23, 2011
Letters to the Editor, Business

Letters: Fast-Thinking Trucker, Simple Manners, TSA Fees & Red Tape

Building a culture of safety and respect will raise the bar for all of your employees, both labor and management. You’ll be surprised when employees you’ve already written off come to you for help rising above their own failures because they want to better themselves.

May 23, 2011
Editorial, Business, Logistics

Detention Self-Help

There’s no doubt that the failure of some shippers and consignees to promptly load or unload trailers is a serious issue for the trucking industry. Because of this, most fleets have added detention rules into their contracts with their customers, detailing just how long it should take for a trailer to be loaded or unloaded.

May 23, 2011
Business

State Dept. Travel Warning Is Latest Mexico Truck Hurdle

Cross-border trucking between the United States and Mexico, already beset by political issues and road-safety concerns, faces a serious new problem in the form of a warning from the U.S. State Department.

May 23, 2011
Business

Tariffs, Safety Highlighted in Mexico Truck Remarks

Public comments on a proposal to allow Mexican longhaul trucks on U.S. highways were largely divided among those who urgently want retaliatory Mexican tariffs ended and those who fear the move would make the nation’s roads less safe and steal jobs from Americans.

May 23, 2011
Government, Business, Safety, Equipment, Autonomous

Truck Tolls Will Increase to $4 Per Axle on Bridges Between Pennsylvania and N.J.

Truckers crossing the northern Delaware River between New Jersey and Pennsylvania on any of seven tolled bridges could pay as much as 75 cents more per axle as of July 1.

May 23, 2011