DOT’s Freight Transport Index Rises
The Department of Transportation’s freight transportation services index for January rose 2.7% from a year earlier, DOT said Wednesday.
March 12, 2008Volvo, UAW Reach Tentative Pact to End Va. Plant Strike
Volvo Trucks North America said late Monday that the company and the United Auto Workers reached tentative agreement on a three-year contract for the truck maker’s plant in Virginia that would end a six-week strike there by the UAW.
March 12, 2008Pilgrim’s Pride to Close Warehouses, Cut 1,100 Jobs
Pilgrim’s Pride Corp., the world’s biggest poultry processor, said it will close a U.S. chicken-processing plant, six distribution centers and cut 1,100 jobs.
March 12, 2008UPS Says Slowdown May Crimp 1Q Earnings
UPS Inc. executives told Wall Street analysts and investors the company is poised for long-term growth, but that it may have difficulty achieving its first-quarter earnings guidance due to a slowing economy.
March 12, 2008Senators Question DOT on Mexican Trucks Program
Senators and Bush administration officials clashed at a hearing Tuesday about the legality the Department of Transportation’s pilot program allowing Mexican trucks into the United States, the Los Angeles Times reported.
March 12, 2008NAFTA Truck Trade Rises for 2007
Surface trade among the United States, Canada and Mexico rose 4.9% last year compared with 2006, the Department of Transportation said Tuesday.
March 11, 2008DOE Boosts Fuel-Price Forecast
The Department of Energy sharply boosted its projection for diesel prices, saying it will average $3.45 a gallon this year — 57 cents above last year’s average — and $3.70 in March and April.
March 11, 2008Navistar Reports Fiscal 1Q Profit
Navistar International Corp. earned $234 million, or $3.27 per share, for its first fiscal quarter, compared with a loss of $65 million, or 92 cents, a year ago.
March 11, 2008Mexican Trucks Program Showing Few Trips
A government report on the Department of Transportation’s program to allow Mexican trucks into the United States said that too few trips have been taken to be statistically valid.
March 11, 2008MAN Sees Trucking Alliance With Scania, VW
German truck maker MAN AG expects a merger with Swedish truck maker Scania AB and the trucks business of German carmaker Volkswagen AG will happen after VW took control of the Swedish competitor, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.
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