Trucking News

It may take federal investigators more than a year to determine why a truck driver smashed into an Amtrak train in Nevada Friday, killing at least six people.

Bradley S. Jacobs is buying into transportation in a big way.

No one, it seems, is happy with less-than-truckload pricing.

The Los Angeles-Long Beach clean-trucks programs are nearing the end of their first phase, and despite many controversies, the initiatives exceeded all expectations and have set new standards for redu

The American Trucking Associations hailed the release of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve but urged the White House to expand offshore drilling.

Intermodal infrastructure development in the United States is at a juncture that could lead to the development of a third generation of intermodal systems and services.

The driver turnover rate at large truckload fleets rose to an annualized rate of 75 percent in the first quarter of 2011, the American Trucking Associations said.

FedEx Freight returned to profitability in its last quarter after completing the merger of its long-haul and regional less-than-truckload operations.

FedEx increased revenue 12 percent in the quarter and 13 percent in the fiscal year that ended May 31, reporting total annual revenue of $39.3 billion.

Logistics and supply chain management solutions company Ryder Systems received three anti-terrorism certifications this week for its logistics operations in the Asia and trans-Pacific regions.

A new cross-border trucking program with Mexico could be in place within two months, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administrator Anne S. Ferro said.

Payouts to states by the Department of Transportation for construction projects under the 2009 stimulus law totaled just below $29 billion as of June 10, the Obama administration said on its Recovery.

CEVA Logistics will lease more than 1,000 trailers from Ryder System, bringing its total U.S. trailer capacity to more than 4,700 units, the company said Monday.

For more than 80 years, Kane Is Able has been a family-owned and family-run trucking and logistics business, hauling freight from Boston to Washington, D.C.

Roadrunner Transportation Systems is running down more than one road.

Less-than-truckload carriers are broadly dissatisfied with LTL pricing models, but not at all optimistic about changing to a new method for matching prices to freight.

A private investment group is spending $150 million to take over ownership of freight broker Express-1 Expedited Solutions and installing lead investor Bradley S. Jacobs as the chairman and CEO.

A key weekly measure of trucking capacity rose last week to a near three-year high, indicating the availability of truckload equipment continues to tighten.

Average diesel prices across the United States edged upward 1.4 cents a gallon in the week ending June 13, ending a five-week slide that has pushed fuel prices back below $4 a gallon in most of the co

UPS Freight is cutting transit times between Western Canada and U.S. markets by at least one day, speeding cross-border shipments from Vancouver.

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Intermodal services provider Hub Group acquired Domestic Transport, a Pacific, Wash.-based drayage company that delivers containers in the Pacific Northwest.

After acquiring the regional trucking operator USF for $1.37 billion in May 2005, YRC Worldwide Chairman, President and CEO William D.

Logistics technology provider Descartes Systems Group is acquiring software specialist Telargo to add new mobile information capabilities to trucking operations systems.

A little acquisition by a very big company sent a jolt through the U.S. trucking industry on June 1.

Now that negotiations with the Teamsters union, lenders and others with a financial stake in the company are largely completed, YRC Worldwide’s most crucial negotiations may be with its shippers

With one of North America’s most dramatic bridges as a backdrop, Michigan Gov.

Shippers expect truckload capacity to keep tightening over the next year, but believe the less-than-truckload market will be more stable, according to a recent survey.

A recent survey of shippers had some good news for YRC Worldwide: Only 6 percent of those surveyed plan to reduce freight shipped with the trucking giant as it restructures to avoid bankruptcy, and 17

Ryder System is banking on expansion. The $5.1 billion truck lessor closed on a $900 million revolving credit facility with its banking group Thursday.

GSC Logistics, an Oakland, Calif.-based transportation provider and 3PL, expanded into the Pacific Northwest by acquiring Best Way Trucking, a port trucker in Seattle and Portland, Ore.

The National Industrial Transportation League is urging the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration not to change the truck driver hours-of-service rules.

The Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index extended its slide in May, falling 0.9 percent following April's 0.5 percent decline and an “exceptional”

Following an acquisition and East Coast expansion, trucking company Roadrunner Transportation Systems is reorganizing its management team.

President Obama is keeping open the option of drawing oil out of the U.S.

Two national trucking groups called on the Department of Transportation to begin researching the benefits of crashworthiness standards for heavy trucks.

Ryder System expanded its truck leasing operations in the United Kingdom by acquiring British heavy truck leasing firm Hill Hire for approximately $252 million.

Freight volume carried by for-hire transportation companies in April fell 1 percent from the previous month but was up 3.7 percent from April 2010, the Transportation Department reported.

The board of directors at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce elected Iowa trucking industry executive John Ruan III as chairman for a one-year term.

Geodis Wilson strengthened its position in the U.S.