Trucking News

The American Trucking Associations today reported that its seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index increased 2.8 percent in December, after jumping 3.9 percent in November (revised).

BX Solutions, a fairly new company in the transportation industry, has launched a time-definite trucking, airport-to-airport service connecting 31 markets in the U.S. Midwest and Southeast through its new hub operations...

Shippers seeking reduced less-than-truckload shipping costs need to start not with lower rates but “cleaner” data.

Nashville, Ind.-based transportation forecaster FTR Associates’ Shippers Conditions Index for November fell slightly from October to a reading of -5.3, a sign that 2013 will be challenging for shippers.

This month’s acquisition of mapping, routing and navigation software company ALK Technologies adds more to Trimble’s transportation portfolio than a new selection of products, technological expertise or an additional stream of revenue.

$1.4 billion Canadian transport operator Mullen expects 'challenging year' in 2013.

Truckers who were “cautiously optimistic” in 2012 are increasingly pessimistic about their business outlook for 2013.

Freight forwarding and logistics management company China Logistics Group has launched a domestic trucking services operation in China through a partnership with a domestic trucking company.

FedEx has named Henry J. Maier as president and CEO of FedEx Ground, a subsidiary of FedEx that provides ground small-package delivery services.

In a deal with SEA Transport, truck manufacturer Iveco, a Fiat Industrial company, has delivered eight Stralis Active Space Super3 tractor units for the container transport company’s heavy truck fleet.

Trucking and logistics company Roadrunner Transportation Systems today announced it will expand its less-than-truckload outbound service center in Philadelphia, which opened in June 2012.

White Plains, N.Y.-based energy investment company Fortistar, through its new affiliate TruStar Energy, which helps commercial fleets transition their fuel supply from oil to natural gas, has purchased a majority interest in Vocational Energy.

Chassis transportation company Direct ChassisLink has named Ron Joseph senior vice president of operations.

Sales of natural gas medium and heavy duty trucks and buses will expand steadily over the remainder of the decade, according to a recent report from Pike Research, part of Navigant’s Energy Practice.

The Teamsters union and ABF Freight System are back at the bargaining table. Negotiations on a new multiyear contract resumed Jan. 8 and will continue through next week, the union said in a notice published on its Web site.

After a seesaw year in which freight rates bounded up and down like a yo-yo, shippers and carriers alike are looking for stability and predictability in their businesses.

Nashville, Ind.-based transportation forecaster FTR Associates has reported that its Trucking Conditions Index for November, published in its January 2013 Trucking Update, rose almost two full points to a favorable reading of 9.7.

YRC Freight today named Darren Hawkins senior vice president of sales and marketing, effective Jan. 14.

Class 8 truck orders in December 2012 totaled 20,836 units, a 6 percent increase from November but a 30 percent decline from the same month in 2011, according to preliminary data from FTR Associates.

From labor battles to natural disasters, 2012 was filled with risk for shippers and the companies moving and managing their cargo. Here are the stories that defined the year.

Celadon Trucking Services has agreed to acquire Rock Leasing and Kelly Logistics.

Robert L. Johnson, founder and chairman of The RLJ Companies and chairman of RLJ Equity Partners, today announced the acquisition of regional trucking company R. Thompson Trucking, now RLJ Thompson Trucking.

South Carolina-based less-than-truckload transportation company Southeastern Freight Lines today promoted Chris Reynolds from North Atlanta service center manager to director of safety and security.

Fast food chain Jack in the Box is moving more of its freight via 53-foot containers on intermodal trains.

Cudahy, Wis.-based logistics company Roadrunner Transportation Systems has announced that the underwriters for its recent public offering of common stock exercised in full their over-allotment option to purchase an additional...

The intra-Asia trucking market retains huge growth potential if inefficient border processes and excessive bureaucracy can be improved, according to one leading logistics executive.

Roadrunner Transportation Systems has acquired Direct Connection Transportation...

Transportation marketplace uShip.com has closed an $18 million round of Series C financing with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers to extend the development, sales and marketing of uShip’s commercial freight platform...

FedEx Freight increased its profit 90 percent from a year ago as less-than-truckload revenue and freight demand climbed in the three months that ended Nov. 30.

FedEx today reported its income in the second quarter, ending Nov. 30, was $438 million, dropping 12 percent from $497 million in the same quarter last year.