WASHINGTON — Public officials who consider freight transportation of goods use that understanding to recruit business development.

WASHINGTON — Modern urban life presents special challenges for food transportation and distribution, including constant replenishment of stock to recipients who are often in challenging delivery locations.

WASHINGTON — While freight transportation has undergone enormous change over the past quarter-century, even more is coming and very quickly, driven by demanding customers and an amazing array of technology that might actually allow carriers to satisfy shippers.

WASHINGTON — Freight considerations are rarely of primary importance for legislators and others in government, but there are some public officials who appreciate the great importance of transporting goods and use that understanding to recruit business development.

WASHINGTON — The American Petroleum Institute will pursue an aggressive policy agenda during the first 100 days of the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump and his four-year term, the trade group’s president said here during the organization’s annual State of American Energy event.

If results from Phase 1 regulation of greenhouse-gas emissions from trucks are an indication, Phase 2 standards should improve vehicle efficiency further but also add cost and complexity to new trucks, according to an industry webinar on the final rule issued in August.

WASHINGTON — The American Petroleum Institute will pursue an aggressive policy agenda during the first 100 days of the incoming Trump administration and throughout Donald Trump’s four-year term, the trade group’s president said here during API’s annual State of American Energy event.

The United States has been on the cusp of connected vehicles that communicate directly with each other and with traffic signs and highway infrastructure since 1999, when a slice of electromagnetic spectrum was reserved for such a purpose by the Federal Communications Commission.

American Trucking Associations has selected 11 people for its new task force to evaluate funding options for repairs to and expansion of the nation’s highways and bridges.