°®¶¹´«Ã½

U.S. business inventories rose 0.4% in June, while sales fell, the Commerce Department said Monday.

U.S. business inventories rose 0.4% in June, while sales fell, the Commerce Department said Monday.

Overall intermodal volumes for the second quarter of 2007 fell to 3.35 million units from last year’s level of 3.58 million units, the Intermodal Association of North America said.

The price of goods imported to the United States rose for a sixth straight month in July, on higher oil costs, the Labor Department reported Friday.

UPS Inc., in order to reduce costs and improve its scheduling, is switching to sending containers on flatcars by rail and moving away from shipping trailers on flatcars.

Less-than-truckload carriers struggled during the second quarter to strike a balance between soft pricing and declining tonnage, with most large publicly traded carriers reporting lower profits than a year earlier.

The chairman of the House Transportation Committee last week called for a special bridge-repair fund, following the Interstate 35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis, and said a temporary federal fuel tax increase was among the options to pay for it.

The chairman of the House Transportation Committee last week called for a special bridge-repair fund, following the Interstate 35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis, and said a temporary federal fuel tax increase was among the options to pay for it.

The chairman of the House Transportation Committee last week called for a special bridge-repair fund, following the Interstate 35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis, and said a temporary federal fuel tax increase was among the options to pay for it.

UPS Inc., the nation’s largest single employer of Teamsters, said it is proceeding in talks with a union-related pension plan that could result in the parcel giant’s withdrawing from the multi-employer funds that cover current and retired union members.