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A rule requiring U.S. residents to show a passport or other high-tech document to re-enter the country from Canada or Mexico took effect Monday, the Associated Press reported.

General Motors Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday, setting a plan to create a 21st-century company to better compete in world markets, Bloomberg reported.

Manufacturing in the U.S. improved last month but still showed contraction overall, the Institute for Supply Management said Monday.

Construction spending rose in April by the largest amount since August, the Commerce Department said Monday.

Consumer personal spending dipped 0.1% in April, the Commerce Department said Monday.

U.S. forecasters expect a “near normal” Atlantic hurricane season, with up to 14 named tropical storms this year during the hurricane season that begins Monday, the Associated Press reported.

I enjoyed the opinion piece titled “To the Swiftest Go the Spoilers” by Phil Romba in the May-June Equipment & Maintenance Update supplement to the May 18 issue of Transport Topics.

Freight levels continue to dive, even as there are increasing signs that the recession’s bottom has been touched and most economists are predicting that U.S. economic growth will resume in the year’s last quarter.

A bill to keep states from tolling existing roads in the National Highway System has been introduced in Congress by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas).