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Federal Express Corp. will increase rates by an average of 2.8% for shipments within the U.S., the company announced Monday.

Two of the best-known names in the chemical hauling business are about to disappear.

TT PhotoShould American Trucking Associations get involved in the debate over railroad competitive access? That’s the question ATA’s board of directors will consider at its winter meeting next week in San Francisco. Railroad executives consider competitive access a life-or-death issue.

United Parcel Service Europe is considering a joint venture with archrival Deutsche Post, the German post office, to establish the first private, long-distance rail freight operation in Europe.

Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) appointed a 10-member task force to develop plans for improving Interstate 81 in Virginia.

Freightliner Corp. and its parent company, Daimler-Benz AG, claim that in 1991 the Environmental Protection Agency explicitly condoned the same electronic emissions controls that the agency later called “defeat devices.”

The proposed DOT budget for the next fiscal year calls for more highway spending but allocates most of a $1.5 billion windfall in motor fuel tax revenue to non-road spending.

TT PhotoThe congressional debate over motor carrier safety is heating up, with the announcement Wednesday for a series of hearings on the subject. Ground Transportation Subcommittee Chairman Tom Petri (R-Wis.) (pictured) said the hearings "will take a comprehensive and hard look at motor carrier safety."

Legislation to limit the Highway Commission’s authority to place toll booths on Interstates failed in committee.

Qualcomm Inc. announced it is cutting 700 jobs, or about 6% of its workforce, in response to slow sales and increased competition.