Transportation

A truck containing 37,000 pounds of now-rotten chicken may have sat in a western Montana truck stop for more than a month while its driver texted and called his employer demanding money, police said.

Start-up airline PeoplExpress says it is suspending flights because of problems including a shortage of crews, but it hopes to resume flying next month.

Shares of some top airlines companies were mixed at the close of trading: Delta Air fell $.14 or .4 percent, to $36.52.

State transportation officials are trying to determine if giant steel rods on the Bay Bridge's new eastern span have been damaged by exposure to water.

Shares of some top airlines companies are mixed at 10 a.m.: Delta Air fell $.19 or .5 percent, to $36.47.

Shares of some top airlines companies are mixed at 1 p.m.: Delta Air fell $.39 or 1.1 percent, to $36.27.

Law enforcement officers are searching for a former employee of an Idaho trucking company suspected of abandoning a trailer full of frozen chicken at a western Montana truck stop and taking the company's Volvo tractor.

Shares of some top airlines companies were down at the close of trading: Delta Air fell $1.00 or 2.7 percent, to $36.66.

Shares of some top airlines companies are mixed at 10 a.m.: Delta Air fell $.34 or .9 percent, to $39.10.

JetBlue CEO Dave Barger will step down in February and be replaced by the airline's president, Robin Hayes.

Facts about the regional airline industry in the United States: — LEADING REGIONALS: By 2014 traffic, among the largest are ExpressJet, SkyWest, Envoy Air and Endeavor Air.

Washington state officials on Wednesday named a new head of the state ferry system, which is emerging from a tough summer.

For passengers traveling between smaller cities and large hub airports, the ticket may say Delta, American or United, but they're likely flying on a regional airline whose planes are painted in the major carrier's colors.

Shares of some top airlines companies are up at 1 p.m.: Delta Air rose $.60 or 1.5 percent, to $39.42.

Tourists and truckers were told Wednesday to prepare for several more days of disruptive detours around a closed stretch of busy Interstate 15 in southern Nevada that crumbled in chunks during intense flash flooding.

Eastern Connecticut has won an $8.2 million federal grant to upgrade freight rail.

A federal accident investigation board is deciding the cause of a fatal cargo plane crash that has become the focus of dispute between UPS and its pilots union over whether work schedules are causing fatigue and jeopardizing safety.

Passenger traffic on American Airlines and US Airways was nearly flat last month, and the carrier expects that a key revenue figure will grow no more than 2 percent for the third quarter.

Bertha, the broken-down tunneling machine, moved forward three feet during recent testing, while workers building an underground circular pit that will allow access to the machine finished installing the last of 84 large concrete cylinders known as piles.

Shares of some top airlines companies are up at 10 a.m.: Delta Air rose $.45 or 1.1 percent, to $39.67.