The U.S. Senate confirmed Michael P. Jackson as deputy secretary of the Department of Transportation in a voice vote on May 4. This cartoon appears in the April 30 print edition of Transport Topics. Subscribe today . Click here to see more cartoons by Transport Topics' Rick Beckrich.
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Highlights Stocking the Jukebox With Binary Code Electronic storage and retrieval of bills of lading, contracts, driver logbooks and other paper is a high-tech solution to recordkeeping and workflow management for a growing number of trucking companies. But the evolution was already under way. The past year was truly a mixed one for the industry. But skyrocketing diesel prices, a continued driver shortage and a softening economy made life harder for the nation's trucking fleets.