Trucking News

The issue of whether truck drivers nationwide are employees or independent contractors is far from dead despite a recent

With more than 170,000 ballots counted, incumbent James P. Hoffa commanded 57.2 percent of the votes cast for Teamsters general president in the union’s general election.

The American Trucking Associations is taking its battle against proposed changes to truck driver work hours to the federal Office of Management and Budget, which is reviewing the Department of Transpo

Veteran trucking executive Jack Gross is the new CEO of Haney Truck Line, a regional truckload and specialized carrier in the Pacific Northwest.

With ballots still being counted, James P. Hoffa opened a broad lead over opponents Fred Gegare and Sandy Pope Wednesday in the Teamsters union elections.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration ordered Maryland trucker Gunthers Transport to shut down, saying numerous hours of service and other safety violations made the company an "imminen

AutoInfo, the parent of non-asset trucking company Sunteck Transport, increased its net profit 13.3 percent in the third quarter to $944,000.

U.S. Xpress Enterprises is expanding its expedited refrigerated trucking service, bringing its total number of reefer teams to 100, the company said Wednesday.

Spot market volume on TransCore&rsquo;s network of load board slipped 3.7 percent in October from September<

Truckload carrier CRST is fielding teams of company drivers to haul long-haul temperature controlled freight from Southern California to the Northeast.

Diesel prices across the United States increased 1 cent in the week ending Nov. 14, rising to the highest point since late May even as crude oil traded at its lowest point in two months.

Shippers are likely to face steep increases in truckload rates in the next two years, followed

Covenant Transportation lost $11.1 million in the third quarter compared to a $1.9 million profit in the same period

Less-than-truckload pricing is rising, financial results from the largest LTL carriers show, as tightening truck capacity and rising costs trump economic uncertainty.

Four months after James Welch rejoined YRC Worldwide as CEO, the scope of his plans for the ailing trucking giant is becoming clearer.

How tight is LTL capacity? That depends on the carrier and its territory.

ABF Freight System is extending its move toward international business with a less-than-containerload ocean offering the carrier will combine with its U.S.

More than $2 million in bankruptcy estate assets may be distributed to 676 former employees of Arrow Trucking, a flatbed carrier that shut down in 2009.

The American Trucking Associations joined an array of business groups praising a transportation spending plan appro

The Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index reversed course in October, rising 1.1 percent from September after declining for three consecutive months, indicating that trucking activity as measured by f

Capacity at a group of six large truckload carriers tracked by The Journal of Commerce fell a cumulative 1.5 percent from the second quarter and 1.5 percent from a year ago, with two carriers increasi

Less-than-truckload pricing is rising, financial results from the largest LTL carriers show, buoyed by tightening capacity and increased freight volume despite uncertainty about the course the economy

Displaying confidence in U.S.

A 30 percent increase in shipments pushed third-quarter gross revenue up 40 percent year-over-year to $159 million at Echo Global Logistics.

Profits tightened at XPO Logistics, formerly Express-1Expedited Solutions, as operating revenue rose 6.6 percent in the third quarter to $47.4 million.

A new management style is becoming evident at YRC Worldwide and its long-haul subsidiary YRC, as new CEO James L.

The intermodal industry gathers next week in Atlanta for the Intermodal Expo, hosted by the Intermodal Association of North America.

Less than two months after being named president of YRC, Jeff Rogers is cutting away layers of management and consolidating sales and operations in an attempt to steer the national less-than-truckload

Transportation employment increased more than 2 percent year-over-year in October, with rail employment up 3.8 percent and trucking up 2.9 percent.

YRC Worldwide gave Jamie G. Pierson the job he&rsquo;s been doing effectively since August, naming him executive vice president and chief financial officer.

Somewhere, somehow, the intermodal market missed the message that the U.S. economy might be stumbling back into recession.

The center of intermodal growth is shifting toward the center of the U.S., as U.S. manufacturing creates more shorter-haul, domestic intermodal freight.

As more truckloads are converted to intermodal containerloads, trucking companies aren&rsquo;t rushing to cut rates to keep that freight on the highway.

The $500 million financial restructuring completed in July may save YRC Worldwide in the long-term, but any gain came with some short-term pain in the third quarter.

Steady freight demand in less-than-truckload and truckload markets boosted Con-way&rsquo;s total revenue 8.4 percent in the third quarter to $1.38 billion.

Backers of two competing transportation plans are jockeying for support by selling their initiatives as job creators and taking shots at the other side for funding shortfalls.

Acquisitions, rate hikes and a surge in freight pushed revenue up 38.2 percent to $226.2 million in the third quarter at Roadrunner Transportation System.

TransForce's acquisition of a cross-border, expedited less-than-truckload carrier expands the Canadian trucking giant's reach further into the U.S.

Preliminary net orders for Class 8 trucks defied recessionary expectations in October, rising month-over-month and year-over-year, according to ACT Research.

UPS Freight is rolling out technology that will help less-than-truckload shippers better control the &ldquo;first mile&rdquo; of any freight movement, the LTL pickup.