Business

Passage of this legislation — the Employee Free Choice Act, also known as “card check” — would further erode American business competitiveness in the global marketplace.

The Treasury Department’s $5 billion program to help cash-strapped auto suppliers will benefit carriers that haul both parts and finished vehicles for automakers, trucking officials said.

The Environmental Protection Agency is poised to declare that greenhouse gas emissions endanger the public’s health and welfare — a move that could accelerate government rulemaking related to air quality.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Companies from China and Taiwan, including China’s largest truck manufacturer, formed the biggest foreign contingent at the Mid-America Trucking Show here for the second year in a row, seeing the show as a good way to enter the U.S. market.

For freight brokers adept at working in the middle of transactions between carriers and shippers, the recession is changing the game.

WASHINGTON — Members of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee criticized Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and the Obama administration for refusing to consider an increase in the federal fuel tax.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the United States is “working very hard to achieve a resolution” to a trade dispute that led to Mexico imposing tariffs on U.S. goods valued at more than $2 billion after President Obama signed a law ending a cross-border trucking plan.

Truck tonnage in February dropped 9.2% from year-ago levels, but inched up 1.7% from the low totals in January, American Trucking Associations reported last week.

A federal appeals court has thrown out the Port of Los Angeles’ ban on owner-operators and questioned the legality of concession requirements at the adjacent Long Beach port for drayage operators to file financial statements and give hiring preferences to experienced port drivers.

YRC Worldwide Inc. said it will close 11 USF Holland regional less-than-truckload terminals and turn the freight over to other company units, a move expected to boost operating income by at least $25 million a year.