Business

There is no driver shortage for organizations that understand productivity, process capability and continuous improvement. How the organization thinks determines the extent of driver retention and whether a driver shortage is real or just an outcome of poor management.

There are worrisome signs that commodities speculators are returning to the nation’s fuel markets, pushing prices higher than the normal forces of supply and demand would warrant.

The president of the National Tank Truck Carriers has asked the National Transportation Safety Board to reopen its investigation into a fatal 1997 tank truck accident in Yonkers, N.Y., that he said has become the “poster child” of the agency’s campaign to require purge retrofits for cargo tank wetlines.

U.S. biomass-based diesel producers have the capacity to meet an 800 million-gallon federal mandate in 2011, despite a marked decline in biodiesel production over the past year and a failure by Congress so far to reinstate a $1 per gallon biodiesel tax credit, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and industry experts.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has issued new rules that will require brokers working with household goods movers to provide more information to consumers.

A bill that would have enabled construction of a new, publicly owned bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, has died in the Michigan legislature.

U.S. retail fuel prices jumped last week, reversing declines over the past two weeks, as the average cost of a gallon of diesel rose 3.5 cents to reach $3.197, the U.S. Department of Energy reported.

Dynamex Inc., Dallas, said it had received a new offer of $25 a share from a potential buyer that exceeds the acquisition proposal from an affiliate of Greenbriar Equity Group LLC.

Consumer confidence rose to a six-month high this month, according to the preliminary monthly Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan consumer sentiment index released Friday.