United Parcel Service, the nation’s largest package-delivery company and No. 1 in the Transport Topics 100, this week increased its presence in the logistics industry and international trade by agreeing to purchase the Fritz Cos. for about $510 million, mostly in stock.

The Defense Department is slated to approve a new regime for paying fuel surcharges in late January that will then go into effect April 1, according to an official of the Military Traffic Management Command.

The roster of players in the truckload sector of the industry will continue changing drastically this year, according to a survey of stock analysts who follow trucking.

The Defense Department is slated to approve a new regime for paying fuel surcharges in late January that will then go into effect April 1, according to an official of the Military Traffic Management Command.

Intrenet Inc. — one of the nation’s largest flatbed operators and No. 52 on the Transport Topics 100 list — is closing up shop and shutting down its four trucking carriers..

Fueled by soaring diesel prices, the rate of bankruptcies in trucking hit a record high of 1,320 in the third quarter of 2000 and is likely to remain high through June, according to an updated study from a major investment brokerage.

Less than 24 hours into his 15th term in the House of Representatives, Bud Shuster shocked his colleagues, constituents and the transportation world by resigning from the body that had been his professional home for 28 years.

Two late-year merger announcements in trucking made a splash on Wall Street in 2000, a year marked otherwise by stagnant or falling stock prices due to concerns that high fuel costs and transportation equities are a bad mix.

Two late-year merger announcements in trucking made a splash on Wall Street in 2000, a year marked otherwise by stagnant or falling stock prices due to concerns that high fuel costs and transportation equities are a bad mix.

The four trucking companies owned by Intrenet Inc. were told Tuesday morning they will be shut down as soon as possible consistent with an orderly liquidation.