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Consumer personal spending was unchanged in May, the Commerce Department said Monday.

Social media are transforming the way America does business, and there’s no reason that shouldn’t include trucking. When it comes to traditional trucking products such as vehicles, systems and components, the development life cycle can be fairly long.

These dunderheads in Washington, D.C., need a check-up from the neck up. How about mandating minimum rates coming out of the ports so the drayage operators can afford to buy newer trucks without federal funds? That’s a good way to save a few million dollars on the deficit, don’t you think?

Imagine a time when a statewide trucking organization, in order to help its state government pay for necessary improvements to roads and bridges, supports a proposal that the state float a bond issue to cover the work and volunteers to have its members pay most of the bills for the work through a jump in the diesel fuel tax.

Ryder System announced it has received three anti-terrorism certifications for its Asia and Trans-Pacific logistics operations.

APL Logistics has begun to deploy its own fleet of 53-foot containers in the North American domestic intermodal market.

The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation has approved two stretches of state highway for use by wider truck trailers.

Durable goods orders rose 1.9% in May, the Commerce Department said Friday.

FedEx Corp.’s earnings jumped 33% in its fiscal fourth quarter, led by a return to profitability at its less-than-truckload FedEx Freight unit after six consecutive quarters of losses.

PHOENIX — American Trucking Associations wants to reinvigorate its operational councils, the group’s president said at industry meetings here, and especially in the field of technology, where significant developments have changed freight transportation dramatically.