Despite high fuel prices, retail prices and shipping fees paid by consumers are likely to remain pretty consistent this holiday season, largely because of the intense competition between Internet and traditional retailers. That's the prediction of a
Read More →Load-matching giant DAT Services (www.dat.com) has taken another major step onto the Internet with the launch of a Web-based version of DAT Partners
Read More →Hundreds of trucks blocked traffic at key points on Chile's main highway in Santiago yesterday, marking the first day of a nationwide strike backing demands for a cut in fuel taxes
Read More →Canacar, Mexico’s National Trucking Association, has a bone to pick with Memphis-based M.S. Carriers
Read More →The Alabama Department of Insurance is warning truckers about a suspected bogus insurance program being offered in the state
Read More →The U.S. government’s General Service Administration has instructed transportation managers in the executive branch to replace paper bills of lading with electronic versions by Oct. 1, 2001
Read More →Ontario's major shippers and carriers have agreed to pass on fuel surcharges to independent truckers
Read More →Petroleum haulers may see a government proposal to eliminate so-called “wet lines” early next year. Wet lines are the external loading/unloading lines on tank trailers which, after pumping, may still contain fuel. The National Transportation Safety Board believes they’re dangerous. In 1997, NTSB investigated a crash in Yonkers, N.Y., in which a car collided with a tank trailer in the area of its fill line
Read More →The Arkansas Trucking Association wants to propose a constitutional amendment to expand the state Highway Commission and require its members to be elected
Read More →The Virginia Department of Transportation is continuing an extensive reconstruction project on what has become known as the "Mixing Bowl" this week, and is shutting down lanes on I-95 near the Springfield Interchange
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