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The old saying, “Time flies,” fits my year as chairman of American Trucking Associations. I remember my phone ringing with the first call from Fred Burns to say I was nominated to vice chairman.

Durable goods orders dropped 2.4% in August, the worst performance since January, the Commerce Department said Friday.

Over the past 25 years of running a freight brokerage operation, I have seen numerous commentaries in Transport Topics written by disappointed and disgruntled carriers putting down the brokerage industry.

The Department of Transportation will host a two-day summit this week on problems surrounding distracted driving and solutions to combat what has become a national epidemic.

The United States’ failure to open its borders to Mexican trucks has cost the country roughly $4.8 billion, according to a new report by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

CHICAGO — An increase in manufacturing activity in Mexico along with a pullback in outsourcing to China could lead to “fundamental change” in the flow of freight in North America, a logistics industry researcher said here.

U.S. retail fuel price averages continued their slow downward drifts last week, the Department of Energy said, as diesel dipped for the third consecutive time.

Douglas Duncan, the well-known industry executive who heads FedEx Freight — the second-largest less-than-truckload carrier — will retire from the company he has led since it was created in 2001, FedEx Corp. announced.