Trucking News

Trucking and logistics company Roadrunner Transportation Systems acquired Capital Transportation Logistics in Nashua, N.H., for $6.25 million.

Swift Transportation, the nation’s largest truckload carrier, is increasing capacity by using technology that gives it quicker access to other motor carriers’ trucks.

U.S. diesel engine maker Cummins is increasing exports to Latin America through a joint venture with Grupo Laeisz, an equipment distributor in Honduras.

Northeastern truckload carrier Atkinson Freight Lines closed its doors after being battered by rising costs and competition from larger national carriers.

The backlog of Class 8 trucks on order rose to 125,200 units in January, the biggest backlog since last July, as the truck build rate dropped, according to ACT Research.

The upholding of four of the concession requirements in the Port of Los Angeles’ clean-trucks plan by U.S.

Diesel prices across the United States hit an 11-week high in the week ending Feb. 20, rising 1.7 cents as oil prices rose to their highest level since May.

Canadian-based less-than-truckload carrier Vitran may be headed back toward profitability after naming a new president for its ailing U.S. operations.

The battle to recruit and, just as important, keep truck drivers is getting fiercer among truckload carriers as freight demand steadily increases.

President Obama’s recent call to nearly double infrastructure investment over the next six years highlights two conflicting forces in transportation policy: a desire to invest more and an unwill

Swift Transportation, the nation’s largest truckload carrier, will pay $4 million to the Port of Los Angeles to settle a dispute related to the port’s clean trucks program.

Moody’s Investors Service boosted its outlook for Swift Transportation to positive from stable as the nation’s largest truckload carrier rebuilds its business.

Southwestern less-than-truckload carrier Central Freight Lines will test 15 natural gas-powered Class 8 Peterbilt tractors in Houston and Galveston, Texas.

Industry groups including shippers and trucking companies are urging New Jersey legislators to reject union-backed bills that would require owner-operators hired by drayage and parcel companies to be

New customers, higher truck freight volumes and significant rate hikes pushed revenue at Echo Global Logistics up 41 percent last year to $602.8 million.

The American Trucking Associations will file a petition challenging new final truck driver work rules in federal court, the trucking group said Tuesday.

Diesel prices across the United States increased at the sharpest pace in nearly three months in the week ending Feb.

The Teamsters union Monday ramped up its organizing efforts among port drivers in Seattle with a rally for owner-operators in the harbor area, but the event reportedly had minimal impact on drayage se

Among state transportation officials, it’s an inside joke.

Bigger, heavier trucks just can’t stay on the road in Congress.

Schneider National helped create the template for the long-haul truckload carrier in the decades after trucking deregulation in the 1980s.

Germany will shut a canal linking the river Rhine to Hamburg, Europe’s second largest container port, late Friday night as the coldest February temperatures across Europe in almost three decades

The trucking and rail lobbies are calling a truce in their battle over truck size and weight limits, hoping a measure of intermodal unity will help push a controversial multi-year surface transportati

Roadrunner Transportation Services increased its net profit 77 percent in the fourth quarter to $6.9 million as revenue jumped 43.6 percent to $238 million.

Flatbed trucking company Maverick Transportation is raising truck driver pay as it purchases new trucks and expands capacity to meet growing freight demand.

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Truckload rates are likely to rise anywhere from 2 to 6 percent in 2012 and even as high as 8 percent in coming years, depending on the strength of the recovery and the effect of new truck safety regu

A federal prosecutor is charging a Pennsylvania trucking company with running a three-year scheme to avoid federal trucking driver hours of service regulations.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration slapped an out-of-service order on U&D Services, shutting down the recently established trucking company.

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Trucking operators profiting from rising U.S. domestic shipping demand in turn are boosting sales and profits at truck and engine makers and technology firms.

There’s a new intermodal rhythm humming along the roads and rail lines connecting manufacturers and retailers with ports and plants across the United States.

Deciding it is what it hauls, YRC Worldwide is rebranding its largest less-than-truckload operating subsidiary YRC as YRC Freight. The name change is more than cosmetic.

Harbor trucking executives across the U.S. celebrated an important victory last fall when the U.S.

YRC Worldwide is changing more than the name of its long-haul less-than-truckload subsidiary.

Some operations at the Port of Seattle are feeling the impact of a push by harbor truck drivers for changes in their pay and positions.

Transport operators may be planning to purchase more trailers in the first quarter of 2012, as stronger than usual freight shipments spur demand for capacity.

About 170 shippers participating in a “fly-in” to deliver a pro-trucking message to Congress Feb. 1 arrived just as House Republicans unveiled a transportation plan.

Old Dominion Freight Line increased its profit 84.4 percent in 2011 to $139.5 million, while revenue rose 27.1 percent to $1.88 billion for the full year.

Transportation and warehousing were among the industries that contributed to the creation of 243,000 jobs in January, pushing the unemployment rate from 8.5 to 8.3 percent, the lowest since February.<