Trucking News

Con-way Truckload, looking to hire more truck drivers in the Western U.S., reopened a driver orientation site in Phoenix that closed during the recession.

Old Dominion Freight Line, a less-than-truckload carrier, is driving deeper into drayage, opening a container drayage facility in Mobile, Ala.

Shippers are bracing for higher transportation costs, even as the economy slows, according to a second-quarter survey of more than 2,000 logistics managers.

German logistics giant Deutsche Post DHL purchased Standard Forwarding, a five-state less-than-truckload motor carrier in East Moline, Ill.

The State Assembly will most likely not address a bill that would classify drayage truck drivers at California ports and intermodal rail yards as employees, although it could be taken up next year.

Freight transportation employment was virtually flat last month while a closely watched survey of non-manufacturing activity showed a sharp drop in import growth.

Leaders from Teamsters union locals around the country will review a tentative national car-haul agreement when they meet in Nashville June 13.

Truckload capacity appears to be tightening again, after loosening in April, according to a key measure of industry equipment supply and demand.

YRC Worldwide is once again contributing to Teamsters pensions, but at much lower level than it did before suspending those contributions in July 2009.

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Transportation and logistics giant Con-way will send $200,000 to help tornado survivors rebuild in Joplin, Mo., the home of its Con-way Truckload division.

The average price of diesel fuel fell for the fourth straight week in the period ending May 31, sliding 4.9 cents to $3.948 a gallon, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said.

Roadrunner Transportation Systems acquired M. Bruenger Trucking, a truckload carrier with headquarters in Wichita, Kans., for approximately $10.6 million.

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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will delay the release of its controversial new truck driver hours-of-service rules until October.

Truckload giant Swift Transportation expects to raise its contract rates 4 percent this year, the CEO of the $2.9 billion trucking operator said Friday.

Trucking technology is approaching a crossroads as safety regulations and economic necessity drive more trucking companies to purchase and plug into everything from electronic onboard recorders to net

Despite winter storms and rising energy costs, publicly owned trucking companies gained ground in the first quarter, buoyed in part by an expansion in manufacturing.

Landstar System is increasing its number of business capacity owners, the owner-operators who operate trucks for the $2.3 billion transportation company.

Net orders for commercial truck trailers dropped 30 percent in April from March after climbing for 18 straight months, according to ACT Research.

Volvo said it cut its carbon footprint delivering goods and products around Europe by 22 percent between 2006 and 2010.

Direct ChassisLink, Maersk Line’s chassis rental business, is adding Kansas City as a start-stop location to its chassis program in the Midwest.

Following Missouri’s lead, the state of Kansas is suspending some motor carrier rules to expedite relief shipments heading to tornado victims in Joplin, Mo.

Truckload carriers are holding onto rate increases despite a decline in truck tonnage and loads, according to a report from Jefferies Equity Research Americas.

Seasonally adjusted for-hire truck tonnage fell 0.7 percent in April, decelerating from a revised 1.9 perc

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is making $1 million immediately available in quick release emergency funds, allowing Minnesota’s Department of Transportation to keep repairing roads and bri

The average price of diesel fell 6.4 cents in the past week to $3.997 a gallon across the U.S., the first time it has been below $4 in nearly two months, according to the U.S.

Three Joplin, Mo., employees of Con-way Truckload and the spouse of one employee were injured in Sunday's tornado, the trucking firm said.

Missouri’s departments of transportation and public safety are helping truckers expedite shipments of equipment and relief supplies to tornado victims in Joplin as rescue workers and survivors c

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The recovery gave urgency to expedited truck transportation in 2010, as the five largest U.S. expedited carriers increased their combined revenue 22.2 percent.

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Supply chain education is spreading beyond the campus and reaching for the high school classroom.

U.S. freight tonnage will grow 24 percent through 2022, with trucking hauling 70 percent of all freight by that year, the American Trucking Associations said.

For-hire trucking software provider TMW Systems acquired Appian Logistics Software, extending its reach into the private fleet and logistics markets.

Regional less-than-truckload carrier Pitt Ohio will purchase 125 tractors and 100 trailers this year, as the company benefits from a “solid” if not robust economic recovery.

Net orders for heavy trucks surged 31 percent in April from March, an ordering pace that is creating a bulging backlog that will strain truck production lines.

TransCore’s North American Freight Index fell 14 percent in April from March, when the index reached its highest level since 2005 after three months of posting record numbers.

A key cross-border trucking route linking Western Canada and the U.S. is open to traffic Tuesday after being closed for nearly a month because of severe flooding.

Average diesel prices across the U.S. fell for the second week in a row in the past week, sliding 4.3 cents a gallon to the lowest point in more than a month, the U.S.