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RWI Transportation, an asset-based logistics company, said March 10 it opened a new terminal in Dallas to improve its access to the western United States.

Several truck makers and industry suppliers said their facilities sustained some damage from the March 11 earthquake in Japan, but they were not expecting it to result in significant supply disruptions to North America.

Third-party logistics provider AutoInfo said its 2010 earnings rose to $3.1 million, or 9 cents a share, from $1.4 million, or 4 cents, the year before.

Just so I can get this straight, now: We are allowing Mexican trucks to come into the United States as cross-border operations — almost a done deal. Then, FMCSA is going to pay for EOBRs to be placed in those Mexican trucks to do business in the United States, while requiring U.S. fleets to purchase EOBRs with company money?

It seems that a consensus is developing in the trucking industry to support electronic devices that monitor the number of hours that drivers work behind the wheel.

Global economic improvement allowed FedEx Corp. to pull in 11% more quarterly revenue, but the carrier saw its net income drop by 3%, as it had to battle severe winter weather, soaring fuel costs and $43 million of integration costs at its less-than-truckload unit.

SAN DIEGO — The United States’ new cross-border trucking initiative with Mexico will be a small-scale, “self-limiting” program because Mexican carriers will have to meet a strict set of safety standards to operate in the United States, the head of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administrator said.

The average price of U.S. retail diesel rose for the 15th consecutive week, bumping up another 3.7 cents to $3.908 a gallon, nearly $1 higher than the comparable week of last year, according to the Department of Energy.

Trucking industry officials have hailed congressional action to repeal an unpopular Internal Revenue Service reporting requirement contained in the 2010 health-care reform law and said they were confident Congress would approve repeal.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration told carriers last week that letters warning about possible loss of operating authority after notifying the agency of cargo insurance cancellations were sent in error.