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Roadrunner Transportation Systems is running down more than one road.

Less-than-truckload carriers are broadly dissatisfied with LTL pricing models, but not at all optimistic about changing to a new method for matching prices to freight.

A private investment group is spending $150 million to take over ownership of freight broker Express-1 Expedited Solutions and installing lead investor Bradley S. Jacobs as the chairman and CEO.

UPS Freight is cutting transit times between Western Canada and U.S. markets by at least one day, speeding cross-border shipments from Vancouver.

After acquiring the regional trucking operator USF for $1.37 billion in May 2005, YRC Worldwide Chairman, President and CEO William D.

Logistics technology provider Descartes Systems Group is acquiring software specialist Telargo to add new mobile information capabilities to trucking operations systems.

Now that negotiations with the Teamsters union, lenders and others with a financial stake in the company are largely completed, YRC Worldwide’s most crucial negotiations may be with its shippers

A little acquisition by a very big company sent a jolt through the U.S. trucking industry on June 1.

Shippers expect truckload capacity to keep tightening over the next year, but believe the less-than-truckload market will be more stable, according to a recent survey.

A recent survey of shippers had some good news for YRC Worldwide: Only 6 percent of those surveyed plan to reduce freight shipped with the trucking giant as it restructures to avoid bankruptcy, and 17

The National Industrial Transportation League is urging the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration not to change the truck driver hours-of-service rules.

The Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index extended its slide in May, falling 0.9 percent following April's 0.5 percent decline and an “exceptional”

Following an acquisition and East Coast expansion, trucking company Roadrunner Transportation Systems is reorganizing its management team.

President Obama is keeping open the option of drawing oil out of the U.S.

Two national trucking groups called on the Department of Transportation to begin researching the benefits of crashworthiness standards for heavy trucks.

Geodis Wilson strengthened its position in the U.S.

Old Dominion Freight Line, a less-than-truckload carrier, is driving deeper into drayage, opening a container drayage facility in Mobile, Ala.

Shippers are bracing for higher transportation costs, even as the economy slows, according to a second-quarter survey of more than 2,000 logistics managers.

German logistics giant Deutsche Post DHL purchased Standard Forwarding, a five-state less-than-truckload motor carrier in East Moline, Ill.

Truckload capacity appears to be tightening again, after loosening in April, according to a key measure of industry equipment supply and demand.

YRC Worldwide is once again contributing to Teamsters pensions, but at much lower level than it did before suspending those contributions in July 2009.

Transportation and logistics giant Con-way will send $200,000 to help tornado survivors rebuild in Joplin, Mo., the home of its Con-way Truckload division.

Roadrunner Transportation Systems acquired M. Bruenger Trucking, a truckload carrier with headquarters in Wichita, Kans., for approximately $10.6 million.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will delay the release of its controversial new truck driver hours-of-service rules until October.

Despite winter storms and rising energy costs, publicly owned trucking companies gained ground in the first quarter, buoyed in part by an expansion in manufacturing.

Net orders for commercial truck trailers dropped 30 percent in April from March after climbing for 18 straight months, according to ACT Research.

Following Missouri’s lead, the state of Kansas is suspending some motor carrier rules to expedite relief shipments heading to tornado victims in Joplin, Mo.

Seasonally adjusted for-hire truck tonnage fell 0.7 percent in April, decelerating from a revised 1.9 perc

The average price of diesel fell 6.4 cents in the past week to $3.997 a gallon across the U.S., the first time it has been below $4 in nearly two months, according to the U.S.

Regional less-than-truckload carrier Pitt Ohio will purchase 125 tractors and 100 trailers this year, as the company benefits from a “solid” if not robust economic recovery.

TransCore’s North American Freight Index fell 14 percent in April from March, when the index reached its highest level since 2005 after three months of posting record numbers.

A key cross-border trucking route linking Western Canada and the U.S. is open to traffic Tuesday after being closed for nearly a month because of severe flooding.

Less-than-truckload carriers spent the better part of last year stuck behind truckload operators, struggling to raise rates.

Market conditions are worsening for U.S. shippers as truck capacity tightens and fuel prices and surcharges rise, an index released by FTR Associates shows.

The Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index fell 0.5 percent in April after rising 2.7 percent in March, underscoring what the index sponsors called a “fitful” recovery.

Rep. Paul Tonko, D-N.Y., will re-introduce a bill Wednesday aimed at creating safer and more secure parking spaces for long-haul truck drivers.

YRC Worldwide is searching for engineers to help optimize its network to save fuel — and money — by making the trucking company greener and more efficient.

YRC Worldwide may have cleared perhaps the largest obstacle to its survival by securing an accord on a restructuring plan to cut debt and boost liquidity, but it almost certainly will not be the last

When it comes to rates, there’s an ocean of difference between global shipping lines and North American domestic carriers.

Slow growth, or even declining revenue, isn’t necessarily a bad thing — if it comes with higher earnings.