Funding for U.S. Customs automation in fiscal 2001 has hit a new snag. While the House version — with an additional $105 million for Automated Commercial Environment development and $123 million for the Automated Commercial System — easily passed, the Senate version contains not one dollar for ACE.

A provision buried in a 100-page Senate appropriations bill would extend the U.S. Customs Service’s merchandise processing fee from April 2003 to April 2010. The action has raised a few eyebrows on Capitol Hill because legislation dealing with customs appropriations has historically been initiated in the House.

Requiring employees to submit to random drug tests is an invasion of privacy, a provincial court in Ontario, Canada, has ruled.

Trucking companies carrying loads into Canada will be required to use unique carrier identification numbers in 2001, according to the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency.

The Laredo of yesteryear – the image is of a dusty, hot Texas border city with streets forever clogged by queues of trucks crossing the Rio Grande — is gone.

Trucking companies carrying loads into Canada will be required to use unique carrier identification numbers in 2001, according to the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency.

The Laredo of yesteryear – the image is of a dusty, hot Texas border city with streets forever clogged by trucks — is gone. Trucks are still everywhere, but route changes have had a big impact on the city.

Mexico’s largest trucking association, Canacar, has seized the moment to present its complaints on North American Free Trade Agreement trucking issues to the country’s incoming president, Vicente Fox Quesada.

Santa Claus may be famous for Christmas deliveries, but on July 8 FedEx Corp., United Parcel Service and Yellow Freight System usurped his ho-ho-ho all the way to bookstores, warehouses and homes of the United States, delivering the latest Harry Potter book.

Trucking companies that don’t watch who they do business with internationally could be setting themselves up for civil or criminal penalties under a new federal law that took effect in December.