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Miami-Dade County voters Thursday overwhelmingly rejected a penny sales tax increase that would have removed toll booths on four heavily traveled roads.

The Teamsters union is stepping up the campaign to liberate itself from federal oversight imposed in a 1989 consent decree with an initiative to wipe out corruption and Mafia influence.

Fallout from the financial collapse of Preston Trucking Co. continues rippling across the state and region, with truckers demanding their wages after their paychecks bounced.

This Afternoon's Headlines: Shippers urged to help in speeding US-Mexico truck crossings; Allied Waste selling some operations to the public; and Trucker eyes S.C. freight hub, training site.

Truckers using fuel or credit cards will be able to whiz through check-out lines at truck stops, according to marketers of a satellite point-of-sale technology.

The Department of Transportation is under a congressional mandate to build an intelligent transportation system by 2001. DOT considers 17 standards to be essential to making it work.

In the news this morning: N.C. jury awards $3.67 million in fatal wreck; Waste Management disavows executive, dismisses financial chief, top counsel; and a European partner for UPS?

Even as less-than-truckload carriers are reporting falling profits due to a slackening in demand for their services, more of them are also asking their customers for freight rate increases.

The computerized database by which the federal government ultimately gauges a trucking operation’s qualities in the realm of safety is burdened by incomplete and sometimes misleading information on accidents, drivers and maintenance operations, according to a number of industry consultants.

Heavy rains in central Colorado caused mudslides that have closed portions of Interstate 70, Colorado 133, and U.S. 6 following flash flooding throughout the area on Tuesday.