The Department of Transportation’s freight transportation services index for January rose 2.7% from a year earlier, DOT said Wednesday.
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Pilgrim’s Pride to Close Warehouses, Cut 1,100 Jobs
Pilgrim’s Pride Corp., the world’s biggest poultry processor, said it will close a U.S. chicken-processing plant, six distribution centers and cut 1,100 jobs.
March 12, 2008Forward Air to Buy Houston Firm
Forward Air Corp. said it will buy transportation firm Pinch Holdings and a related company, AFTCO Enterprises, for an undisclosed sum.
March 11, 2008NAFTA Truck Trade Rises for 2007
Surface trade among the United States, Canada and Mexico rose 4.9% last year compared with 2006, the Department of Transportation said Tuesday.
March 11, 2008Mexican Trucks Program Showing Few Trips
A government report on the Department of Transportation’s program to allow Mexican trucks into the United States said that too few trips have been taken to be statistically valid.
March 11, 2008DOE Boosts Fuel-Price Forecast
The Department of Energy sharply boosted its projection for diesel prices, saying it will average $3.45 a gallon this year — 57 cents above last year’s average — and $3.70 in March and April.
March 11, 2008Letters to the Editor: HOS, Crash Statistics, No Driver Shortage, Aerodynamics
I have been driving for 46 years and have been with Roadway 25 years. I think the 11-hour rule is very good. It gives you some flexibility if you have any delays.
March 10, 2008Sen. Dorgan Tells Peters DOT is ‘Arrogant’ for Refusing to Block Cross-Border Funding
Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) told Transportation Secretary Mary Peters that her department was “arrogant†in its refusal to go along with what he said Congress intended when it prohibited funding for the DOT’s controversial U.S.-Mexico border trucking program.
March 10, 2008Peters Urges Congress to Back Mexican Trucks Program
Transportation Secretary Mary Peters said Monday that Congress should not halt efforts of a cross-border trucking program between the United States and Mexico.
March 10, 2008Midwest Hit By Snowstorm
Highway and utility crews worked overtime Sunday to recover from a big storm system that buried Ohio and other parts of the Midwest in snow, the Associated Press reported.
March 10, 2008