Trucking News

The Department of Transportation’s payments to states for finished stimulus projects reached $30.4 billion as of Aug.

Ryder System says it plans to take more of the shipments it sends to trucks under the company's outsourced logistics operations and divert them to intermodal freight rail.

There’s a word being bandied about the trucking industry this summer to describe a change in attitude toward pricing and profitability, and it’s not a word commonly associated with highly

Harbor truckers have complained for years that marine terminal gates are a source of lengthy yet preventable delays in the transportation supply chain.

Consolidated Chassis Management says taking over management of its six regional chassis pools is a way to cut costs and prepare for changes in a rapidly evolving business.

The U.S. Postal Service on Friday said it is considering laying off some 120,000 employees, about 21 percent of its work force, as it faces a second year of losses totaling more than $8 billion.

Caterpillar Chairman and CEO Doug Oberhelman called for U.S. policymakers to launch a strong infrastructure repair program to upgrade ports and domestic transportation networks.

U.S. retail sales rose 0.5 percent in July, and business inventories grew in June for the 18th straight month but at the slowest rate in more than a year, the Commerce Department said.

TransCore’s North American Freight Index rose 22 percent year-over-year in July, the seventh straight same-month increase for the spot market truckload index.

The head of heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar said his company is still hiring in August as demand continues to grow for its product line, although he worries about the economic outlook.

The nation’s top bulk trucking companies increased revenue 12.3 percent in 2010, with combined sales reaching $3.1 billion, according to SJ Consulting Group.

Two key shipping associations are protesting a proposal that could extend a trucking safety regulatory agency’s authority to their operations.

Standard & Poor’s Financial Services upgraded the credit rating of struggling trucking operator YRC Worldwide Tuesday, giving it a “CCC” rating.

The Transportation Department’s Freight Transportation Index rose 2.6 percent in June, the index’s largest month-to-month increase since November 2009.

Trac Intermodal said it will expand its new damage-waiver program for leased chassis to New York-New Jersey and Baltimore on Sept. 1, and nationwide by year’s end.

Trucking industry groups and environmental activists are hailing new heavy truck fuel efficiency standards that could cut oil use 530 million barrels by 2018.

President Obama on Tuesday introduced fuel efficiency standards for heavy trucks projected to save truck operators $50 billion from 2014 through 2018.

A key measure of truckload capacity rose 8.8 percent last week, climbing for the second straight week after five weeks of sequential declines.

AutoInfo, the parent of non-asset trucking and logistics firm Sunteck Transport, increased its net profit 24.3 percent in the second quarter to $905,000.

Transportation stocks took a deep dive on Wall Street on Monday, riding a huge selloff in response to the downgrading of U.S. debt that sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 635 points.

FedEx Freight will raise its non-contract truck pricing 6.75 percent on Sept. 6, the nation’s largest less-than-truckload motor carrier said Monday.

Car-hauling Teamsters approved a National Master Automobile Transporters Agreement that will raise their wages $1.35 per hour over four years.

President Obama is set to unveil final rules Tuesday that for the first time set fuel efficiency and carbon emission standards for a wide range of commercial trucks and buses.

Truckload carriers seem to be traveling a different route than the rest of the sputtering U.S. economy.

Ports from Oakland, Calif., to New York are adopting clean-trucks programs that will require independent owner-operators who in many cases make $35,000 a year or less to shell out more than $50,000 fo

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Consolidated Chassis Management plans to take over day-to-day management of its six intermodal chassis pools and allow shippers and motor carriers to join container ship lines in supplying the pools w

The U.S. Postal Service lost $3.1 billion in its third fiscal quarter ending June 30, deepening the Postal Service's financial woes as it gets closer to running out of cash.

Trucking employment was essentially flat in July, with for-hire carriers adding only 1,300 jobs for a 0.1 percent increase from June to about 1.28 million employees, according to seasonally adjusted d

Con-way increased its net profit 111 percent to $29.4 million in the second quarter, as the company’s revenue increased 3.2 percent to $1.35 billion.

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Refrigerated trucking operator Frozen Food Express Industries cut its net loss by 25 percent from a year ago to $3.3 m

Roadrunner Transportation Systems reported a $7.4 million net profit in the second quarter, as the trucker’s total revenue leaped 30.4 percent to $208.3 million.

Estes Express Lines will raise less-than-truckload rates an average 6.9 percent effective Aug. 8, matching rate hikes by many of its LTL competitors.

Freight shipments declined 3.7 percent in July from the previous month, a sign the sluggish economy is slipping, Cass Information Systems said Wednesday.

Arkansas Best, parent of ABF Freight System, returned to the black for the first time in nearly three years with a $5.3 million net profit in the second quarter on a sharp gain in pricing that pushed

The value of goods transported by truck and rail between the U.S., Mexico and Canada rose 15.7 percent in May, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics said.

Roadrunner Transportation Systems bought West Coast intermodal specialist The James Brooks Co., a $12 million company in 2010, for approximately $7.5 million.

Diesel prices across the United States fell 1.2 cents in the week ending Aug.1, ending t

Old Dominion Freight Line on Monday combined several existing business units to launch a carrier “neutral” third-party logistics provider, Vault Logistics.