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United Parcel Service, the world’s largest package delivery company, will offer stock to the public for the first time. The firm plans to sell 10% of its common stock by the end of the year.

The federal governments wants to gauge trucking’s sentiment on the notion of a graduated commercial driver license, which could allow younger drivers into the cab of big rigs.

The Rhode Island Trucking Association reports that the southbound lanes of I-295 south of Exit 10 had been closed to all truck traffic due to problems with a bridge in Cumberland.

Several members of Congress said they support a bill to provide additional federal funding for the new Woodrow Wilson Bridge on I-95, but prospects of passage are uncertain.

The “No-Zone” campaign has been talking about avoiding the “blind spots” on trucks for the last five years and a recent report indicates the public has been listening.

This afternoon's headlines: Paint spill ties up traffic on I-95; Officer says Caltrans OKd route followed by tanker in crash; and Caterpillar's second-quarter earnings plunge 37%.

An untold number of interstate truckers is about to lose their shortcuts through New Jersey after Gov. Christie Whitman last week banned tractor-trailers from two-lane, undivided highways.

For the first time since January 1998, some of the biggest U.S. trucking companies are hitting shippers with rate surcharges, triggered by rising fuel prices.

It’s tax-cutting season on Capitol Hill, and so far, trucking interests are getting the short end of the stick as Congress debates how much of a break citizens and companies should receive.

More core intermediary companies like brokerages are adding trucks to their lineups — a sign that the traditional lines between brokerage and trucking are blurring.