Trucking News

A key measure of truckload capacity eased last week, after tightening for several weeks.

A major natural gas company is investing $150 million in a venture that would build 150 liquid natural gas fueling stations for heavy trucks at truck stops nationwide.

Greatwide Logistics tapped John P. Tague, the former president of United Airlines, as chief executive officer, succeeding veteran trucking executive Leo Suggs.

Container-on-barge service could be a $500 million business on the inland waterways, but the federal government hasn’t been willing to test the idea on a large scale to prove its value, accordin

Schneider National is looking to hire 300 truck drivers in Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico for its dedicated and bulk divisions to serve the region’s booming oil business.

Trucking giant YRC Worldwide secured a $400 million asset-based loan facility from its lenders, a key step toward completing its

YRC Worldwide is one step away from completing its financial restructuring by a July 22 deadline, a key official at th

YRC Worldwide named financial executive Christopher C. Wren senior vice president and treasurer of the $4.3 billion trucking enterprise.

The Federal Maritime Commission will discuss a proposal to increase the PierPass traffic mitigation fee to $60 per TEU when it meets July 13.

The for-hire trucking industry is adding workers to company payrolls while the national unemployment rate continues to rise.

Spot market truckload rates rose 4.5 percent in June from May, according to TransCore Freight Solutions, as truckload capacity dropped 7 percent.

Freight brokers increased their revenue 17.1 percent in the first quarter from the same period a year ago as the third-party logistics companies expanded fastest in business beyond their cor

A five-day-old trucker strike at India's Vallarpadam International Container Transshipment Terminal ended late Wednesday following talks between union leaders and terminal operator DP World.

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ABF Freight System won an important victory in its challenge to wage and benefits concessions the Teamsters union granted YRC Worldwide and its subsidiaries.

Owner-operator truck drivers this week sued one of the largest drayage operators at the Port of New York and New Jersey, claiming the company improperly classified them as independent contractors inst

DHL is starting a weekly less-than-containerload ocean service from New York Harbor to Durban, South Africa.

Trucking company ABF Freight System will raise general less-than-truckload rates 6.9 percent July 25, the company said Wednesday.

UPS Freight’s Aug. 1 rate hike is likely to set off a round of early general rate increases in the less-than-truckload market, key financial analysts said.

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Bridgestone Commercial Solutions will hike the price of truck and bus tires and tire retreads by 11 percent on average, the company said.

The average price of diesel fuel fell for the eight time in the last nine weeks, sliding 3.8 cents a gallon to the lowest point since Feb. 28, the U.S.

Terminal operators in Los Angeles-Long Beach face the conundrum of having to run up to five night and weekend gates each week to prevent gridlock in the harbor, all while losing money every day they o

For Lucas Oil, a private fleet is more than a means of transportation. It’s also a rolling laboratory.

Excess capacity may be building on the high seas, but it evaporates quickly once freight reaches dry land. Unlike container shipping lines, U.S.

Those large blue boxes with the familiar APL logo that started appearing on U.S. highways and railroads in May aren’t ocean containers, though it’s tough to tell the difference.

When Lucas Oil transportation chief Marty Martin needs a truck, he usually doesn’t call a trucking company. He goes out to his dock or calls one of his own drivers.

UPS Freight will take a 6.9 percent general rate hike Aug. 1, a move that could signal a stronger across-the-board increases in less-than-truckload pricing.

Baird Equity Research is dropping its coverage of YRC Worldwide, as the trucking giant heads toward a financia

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is adopting a five-year strategic plan that looks beyond truck and bus companies to include shippers and brokers in attempts to improve highway safety.&

Mexico may increase the $2.4 billion in punitive tariffs it places on select U.S. goods if the Obama administration fails to implement a cross-border trucking program.

Looking to calm concerns over moves to allow Mexican trucking companies to operate in the United States, U.S.

Opponents of a new cross-border trucking program with Mexico fear it will draw thousands of Mexican truckers into the U.S., threatening American jobs.

Shippers are paying more to move truckload freight as both large and small trucking companies hike rates, according to a survey by Transport Capital Partners.

YRC Worldwide’s stock took a wild ride on Wall Street this week, almost tripling in value on Monday on sudden and unexplained trading before apparent short-selling sent shares falling back more

Smaller shippers plan to increase transportation spending this year despite economic uncertainty, according to a customer survey conducted by Saia.

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Kombiverkehr, Europe’s biggest intermodal operator, reported traffic and revenue rose to near record levels in 2010 but warned infrastructure bottlenecks will slow growth this year.

The decline in truck tonnage accelerated in May, as the seasonally adjusted for-hire truck tonnage index dropped 2.3 percent

Federal truck safety penalties against motor carriers jumped 23 percent in 2010, according to data from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.