Trucking News

Greenwich, Conn.-based private equity firm Littlejohn completed its previously announced acquisit

House Republicans are considering a short-term extension of the surface transportation bill instead of adopting the Senate’s two-year plan.

Trailer Bridge has emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization with a federal judge’s approval of the Puerto Rico carrier’s financial restructuring agreement.

Diesel prices across the U.S. hit the highest point since August 2008, rising 1.9 cents in the week ending March 19 as oil prices rose to more than $107 per barrel.

YRC Worldwide Chief Accounting Officer Paul F.

A new Department of Transportation report detailing the need to spend $101 billion annually, plus inflation, over the next 20 years to maintain the U.S.

The less-than-truckload industry accelerated in 2011, shedding any remnants of lethargy as shipping demand increased and excess LTL capacity dwindled.

Public less-than-truckload carriers posted a slight operating profit in 2011 after three years of operating losses.

The fuel-based Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index rose 0.7 percent in February after falling 1.7 percent in January from December, pointing to an improvement in trucking but also a fragile economic

XPO Logistics, a third-party logistics company with plans to expand by acquisition, will sell 6 million shares of common stock in a public offering.

Diesel prices across the U.S. rose at the slowest pace in three weeks, climbing 2.9 cents in the week ending March 12 as oil prices fell at the end of trading for the first time in four days.

Research firm FTR Associates sees tightening truck capacity and rising truck pricing ahead this year for North American shippers as freight demand outstrips GDP.

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The biggest less-than-truckload carriers got bigger in 2011, with the number of LTL companies with more than $1 billion in annual revenue climbing to 10.

Trailer Bridge is on track to exit Chapter 11 bankruptcy on March 16, four months after the U.S. mainland-Puerto Rico carrier filed for protection from creditors.

A surge in freight demand helped the for-hire U.S.

The trucking industry increased hiring 3.7 percent year-over-year in February, a slower pace than in January, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

YRC Worldwide sold its stake in Chinese trucking operator Shanghai Jiayu Logistics as it pares its business back to its North American trucking core operations.

A Wayne County judge in Detroit on Thursday ordered the Michigan Department of Transportation to take over and complete a project to link two interstate highways with the Ambassador Bridge.

The Senate could pass a transportation bill quickly whenever Senate leaders agree to a package of amendments for debate, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., said Wednesday.

Smith Electric Vehicles expanded its line of commercial trucks, introducing the Newton Step Van at the NTEA Work Truck Show in Indianapolis Tuesday.

The less-than-truckload transportation industry grew 11.6 percent in 2011, pushing total U.S. LTL revenue past $30 billion for the first time since the recession.

The trucking industry will outperform the U.S. economy this year, with truck freight growing 3.9 percent, greater than overall GDP, according to FTR Associates.

Net orders for new Class 8 trucks dropped 11 percent in February from January, the second straight month of decline, according to research firm FTR Associates.

Old Dominion Freight Line is driving its trucks to the water’s edge and beyond, expanding its drayage and expedited less-than-containerload services.

Henry Vander Pol, a trucking pioneer who helped establish two motor carriers in the Pacific Northwest, died Wednesday in Auburn, Wash. He was 95 years old.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is suing Celadon Trucking for allegedly requiring prospective employees submit to illegal medical tests.

Celadon Trucking will get trucks, trailers and, perhaps most important, badly needed truck drivers from its purchase of Teton Transportation’s assets.

Truck pricing is expected to rise by low to mid-single digit percentages over the next year, as shippers, brokers and carriers deal with tight capacity and rising costs.

Capacity at a group of six large truckload carriers slipped 0.7 percent in the fourth quarter from the previous quarter and 1.1 percent year-over-year, as tractor-trailer supply and freight demand fou

The American Trucking Associations is siding with regulators in federal court to support voluntary use of electronic onboard recorders by trucking companies.

The freight tonnage carried by for-hire trucks fell 4 percent in January from December, when it surged 6.4 percent, the American Trucking Associations said.

U.S. surface transportation trade in December with Canada and Mexico totaled $74.2 billion, an 11.6 percent increase from a year earlier, according to the Transportation Department.

Increases in freight volume and yield pushed YRC Worldwide’s total revenue up 11 percent in the fourth quarter of 2011 to $1.2 billion, but didn’t add up to a profit.

Diesel prices across the U.S. topped $4 a gallon in the week ending Feb. 27, jumping 9.1 cents to a nearly 10-month high as oil prices fell after a seven-day surge.

Drewry Shipping Consultants estimates the international shipping industry contributes about 3.3 percent of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions, part of an enormous impact from global freight tr

Trucking in 2012 is an increasingly divided industry, not along lines such as truckload or less-than-truckload or dry van or flatbed, but by size and scale.

Joseph B. Atkinson knew trouble was coming when Schneider National leaped into the regional truckload business in 2008.

Not every truck carrying tanks of liquid or gas should be considered a “tank truck” and regulated in the same way as a bulk tank-trailer, a trucking group says.

Safety groups opposed to longer truck driver hours of service on Friday filed the second court challenge to new federal work rules for truck drivers.