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Motor carriers spent all of 2011 waiting for the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to announce its latest hours-of-service rule.

Despite reports about costly congestion and the deteriorating state of America’s roads and bridges, Congress failed for the third consecutive year to produce a long-term surface transportation spending plan.

The Senate Commerce Committee approved a bill to create a national freight program that its sponsors said would boost America’s global economic competitiveness, improve its mobility and promote energy conservation.

A new congressional report charged that transportation workers with criminal records have been issued Transportation Worker Identification Credentials because federal officials are being denied full access to the FBI’s criminal history database.

President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper unveiled a plan last week aimed at speeding border crossings and enhancing trade between the United States and Canada.

Manufacturing activity in the New York region expanded in December to the highest level in seven months, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Thursday.

Transportation workers with potentially disqualifying criminal records are being issued Transportation Worker Identification Credentials in some cases because Transportation Security Administration officials are not permitted full access to information contained in FBI criminal databases, according to a new report by congressional investigators.

Federal regulators this week issued a formal clarification intended to close a potential loophole that has permitted some motor carriers to pay a civil fine in full without admitting guilt or liability of a violation.

Consumer confidence rose this month to a six-month high, according to the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index released Friday.

The U.S. trade deficit narrowed by 1.6% in October, shrinking to its lowest level of the year, the Commerce Department said Friday.