The Canadian Trucking Alliance called on provincial governments to act swiftly to make regulations to allow weight and length considerations for technologies associated with CTA's enviroTruck program.

Manufacturing activity in the Chicago region contracted in November at the fastest pace since April 1982, the National Association of Purchasing Management said Wednesday.

Pacer International announced last week that its subsidiaries will deploy 230 new clean trucks this month to comply with Southern California port regulations.

Existing homes sales fell 3.1% in October, while the median price of a home fell 11.3% from the same month last year, the biggest jump on record, the National Association of Realtors said Monday.

Crane Worldwide Logistics said it has completed four acquisitions expanding its freight management and contract logistics services in Asia, Europe, and Latin America.

Adding biodiesel to Canada’s existing fuel storage, blending and distribution infrastructure could spur a host of problems for the country's distillate market, the Canadian Trucking Association said.

Logistics executive Paul Lueck, a 27-year veteran of the transportation business, thought he’d seen it all before the silver-tongued con man from what turned out to be a fictitious Jonesboro, Ark., trucking company came calling last summer.