Trucking News

The freight economy in the U.S. is slowing, and softer truckload shipment volumes and rising fuel costs are squeezing earnings at some of the largest U.S. transport operators.

Trans-Pacific spot rates jumped 8.6 percent this week from last week as U.S. importers scrambled to find space on vessels bound for the West Coast as a precaution against a possible East Coast port strike by the International Longshoremen's Association.

FedEx Express users of slower services will bear more of the brunt of the parcel carrier's price hike than shippers that use faster options, as the company works to slow shippers from shifting to chea

Falsified driver logbooks raised red flags for federal agents conducting a compliance review of a Kansas City, Kan.-based steak-hauling operation last month.

FedEx Freight increased revenue 5 percent from a year ago to $1.4 billion as shipments rose 4 percent in the fiscal quarter that ended Aug. 30.

The average cost of diesel in the U.S. stayed nearly flat for the second week in a row, rising three-hundredth of a cent in the week ending Sept. 17 as oil prices fell.

The trucking industry is being rewired, thanks to rapid changes in technology, regulatory and competitive demands and acquisitions and investment.

Since the end of the Great Recession, trucking industry revenue has outpaced the growth in the general economy, benefiting from a resurgence in manufacturing and growth in U.S.

Rising equipment costs and driver pay are cutting into earnings at Werner Enterprises, which lowered its third quarter earnings estimate after the stock market closed Thursday.

The timing and health of shipping peak season is as murky on the rails and roads as it is on the water.

Health care benefits and pensions as well as wages will top the agenda when the Teamsters union and UPS, the largest Teamsters employer, begin

The volume of truckload freight offered on the spot market rose 1.1 percent in August from July and increased 8.4 percent from a year ago, according to TransCore’s DAT North American Freight Ind

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The annualized driver turnover rate at large truckload carriers shot past 100 percent in the second quarter, rising above that percentage figure for the first time in more than four years.

Truckload pricing increased 1 percent year-over-year in August and remained flat compared with July, acc

The average cost of diesel in the U.S. stayed nearly flat, inching up a five-hundredth of a cent in the week ending Sept. 10 as oil prices rose.

Billions of dollars worth of fresh produce and pharmaceuticals cross the Mexican border each year to enter the U.S., and billions more in poultry and meat gets shipped south.

As China’s middle class expands and develops, so does the food marketing system and cold chain that deliver the more diverse commodities Chinese consumers crave.

Thermo King is launching the Precedent, a new trailer temperature-control platform designed to deliver double-digit fuel savings, best-in-class performance and lower lifecycle costs, while providing r

U.S. truck shipments of fresh produce totaled 8.9 million tons in the second quarter, up 24 percent from the first quarter and 1 percent higher year-over-year, according to a new report.

When it comes to trouble finding skilled employees, trucking isn’t alone.

Maynard F. Skarka is returning to YRC Worldwide as chief operations officer of national less-than-truckload carrier YRC Freight.

Mexico is hungrier for U.S. poultry meat than any other country. U.S. apples, pears, beef and pork also have huge markets in Mexico.

The JOC For-HIre Trucking Employment Index inched up 0.1 percentage points in August as for-hire trucking companies slowed hiring sharply amid

Q: I just read an article about a motor carrier’s owners getting sent to jail for stealing nearly $1 million from a shipper over a span of several years.

Transportation and warehousing employment increased 1.9 percent year-over-year in August, the same rate as in July, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

C.H. Robinson Worldwide has agreed to acquire Warsaw-based Apreo Logistics.

Class 8 truck net orders shifted into higher gear in August, rising 27 percent from July, but remain below year-earlier levels, according to FTR Associates.

An uptick in freight demand and pricing in recent days pushed up a spot market trucking index and pierced some gathering third quarter gloom.

A weak economy is slowing financial recovery at ABF Freight System, the nation’s sixth-largest less-than-truckload motor carrier.

A glimpse of Manhattan’s past and possibly its future was on display in New York’s Times Square Wednesday — a selection of electric

Fedex lowered its earnings outlook for the quarter ending Aug.

It didn’t take long for Three Angels Farms, a small Tennessee-based trucking operator

The global market for natural gas-powered heavy trucks will expand 14 percent a year through 2019, with growth str

Shippers looking for trucks in northern Mexico desperately want something in short supply across North America: la capacidad.

Trucking kept pace and occasionally moved ahead of a slowing economy in the second quarter, with the largest publicly owned trucking companies improving their profitability despite freight volumes tha

The Mexican economy can be baffling to Americans. News headlines of horrifying gang violence tend to overshadow the booming manufacturing sector and burgeoning middle class.

Landstar System on Thursday lowered its growth expectations for the third quarter to a mid-single-digit range, a potential sign of a slowing truck market.

ABF Freight System will again appeal a $750 million lawsuit against the Teamsters union and various YRC Worldwide subsidiaries, after a