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Technology vendors said sales of enterprise-level software have remained strong in 2009, propelled by carriers’ desire to cut costs now while preparing for the influx of new business that will accompany an economic recovery.

The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge reopened Tuesday morning following a weekend of hastily crucial repairs that were completed a day ahead of schedule, the Associated Press reported.

Penske Truck Leasing said that it will join truck manufacturer Freightliner in a two-month North American tour of seminars about selective catalytic reduction technology.

The Department of Transportation has released a new software application that it said will help the transportation industry to deliver products more efficiently.

Ken Eggen at Tango Transport in Shreveport, La., knows that one size doesn’t fit all.

That is why he has separate preventative maintenance checklists for each of the three engine models his fleet runs. He goes a step further and sits down with his shop managers quarterly to pick through those checklists and make adjustments.

Union Pacific Corp. said its new Joliet (Ill.) Intermodal Terminal will support customer growth by boosting international and domestic container capacity and improving rail traffic efficiencies in the Chicago area, the nation’s largest rail center.

The U.S. unemployment rate rose to 9.7% in August, the highest rate since 1983, the Labor Department said Friday.

Are third-party logistics providers a necessary division in the trucking industry? My opinion is “yes.” We are a group of people who work hard to keep customers and drivers happy, at an agreeable rate.