°®¶¹´«Ã½

There is no driver shortage for organizations that understand productivity, process capability and continuous improvement. How the organization thinks determines the extent of driver retention and whether a driver shortage is real or just an outcome of poor management.

There are worrisome signs that commodities speculators are returning to the nation’s fuel markets, pushing prices higher than the normal forces of supply and demand would warrant.

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

The price of goods imported to the United States jumped by 1.3% in November, the highest this year, the Labor Department said Friday.

Intermodal traffic rose 13.8% last week from a year ago, the Association of American Railroads said.

Air and freight forwarder UTi Worldwide’s fiscal third-quarter net income jumped to $26.4 million, or 26 cents a share, from $18 million, or 18 cents, a year earlier.

By Rip Watson, Senior Reporter

This story appears in the Dec. 13 print edition of Transport Topics.

A bill that would have enabled construction of a new, publicly owned bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, has died in the Michigan legislature.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has issued new rules that will require brokers working with household goods movers to provide more information to consumers.

U.S. biomass-based diesel producers have the capacity to meet an 800 million-gallon federal mandate in 2011, despite a marked decline in biodiesel production over the past year and a failure by Congress so far to reinstate a $1 per gallon biodiesel tax credit, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and industry experts.