Trucking News

This article has been corrected, April 8, 2011.

Demand for logistics and transportation services is generating jobs in Ohio, a state struggling with an unemployment rate higher than the national average.

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The calendar may say 2011, but to many in the trucking industry, it feels like 2006.

Bryan Hansel has little trouble convincing potential customers that his electric delivery trucks are street-ready. It’s the suppliers that challenge him.

Where should higher truck rates go? Lana Batts says they should go straight to driver paychecks.

Forget cutting the daily driving limit and shortening the workday, the most unpopular aspect of the proposed truck driver hours-of-service rule might be a provision that would force many truckers to t

Canadian third-party logistics company Kelron Logistics is expanding into intermodal rail, launching a North American intermod

FedEx Freight lost $110 million in its most recent quarter, despite an 11 percent improvement in yield as sales increased and truck shipments declined.

FedEx Ground outdistanced its sister divisions at Memphis-based FedEx, increasing revenue 14 percent and operating profit 26 percent in the quarter ending Feb. 28.

The Coast Guard is seeking comment on a proposal for the voluntary use of equipment to read Transportation Worker Identification Credentials.

Spot market truckload freight volume rose 38 percent in February from the previous month and 65 percent from a year ago, according to TransCore.

A key measure of truckload demand dropped 5.3 percent this week after rising sharply in recent weeks, remaining at its highest level since mid-2010.

Teamster multi-employer pension plans are seeking a higher interest rate on deferred pension obligations owed by YRC Worldwide, throwing up a potential stumbling block for the troubled trucking giant

U.S. retail diesel prices increased 3.7 cents to an average of $3.908 per gallon across the United States last week and pushed farther past the $4 mark in several regions, the U.S.

Stephen Russell, chairman and CEO of Celadon Group, is selling about 15 percent of the stock he owns in the truckload carrier, the company said Monday.

The momentum many U.S. third-party logistics providers and freight brokers reported at the end of 2010 appears to be extending into 2011. C.H. Robinson, the largest domestic 3PL in the U.S.

It took years for ocean carriers to follow through on their desire to get out of the chassis business. Now it may take the rest of the industry years to find a new model that works.

As Chief Financial Officer Sheila Taylor prepares to leave YRC Worldwide, pressure mounts on the company’s board to find a successor to William D. Zollars.

The trucking industry is hiring again, but at a pace and level far below its pre-recession plateau, placing a limit on the expansion of truck capacity.

The replacement of aging tractors and trailers, deferred for more than two years during the recession, is ramping up in 2011, according to ACT Research.

The Department of Transportation is giving the public more time to comment on a proposal that would require electronic onboard recorders in most heavy trucks.

A key measure of truckload demand jumped 18.9 percent week over week in early March, signaling tightening capacity as the nation and the economy warm up.

Refrigerated trucking company Brown Line is expanding in the Pacific Northwest by purchasing Port Side Trucking, a refrigerated motor carrier in Kent, Wash.

Restructuring and refinancing at Quality Distribution reduced a $180.5 million net loss in 2009 to $7.4 million in 2010, while revenue climbed to $686.6 million.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will stop using the term "Alert" to describe trucking company scores that break thresholds in CSA safety categories, following a settlement between the

The two organizations that have wrestled over the unionization of harbor drayage companies for the past few years promised attendees at the 11th annual

Logistics operator Dunavant Enterprises acquired Sea Lane Express, a trucking and drayage company operating in the U.S. Southeast, its second acquisition in four months.

The American Trucking Associations wants the Obama administration to stop the opening and inspection of hazardous materials shipments unless those shipments are believed to pose an "imminent danger" o

Electric truck maker Smith Electric Vehicles U.S. raised $58 million in a series of stock sales. The proceeds will help the company pay for its acquisition of Smith Electric Vehicles UK.

The White House said Monday it was considering its options as to whether it should open the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve as unrest in the Middle East sent prices for crude oil and refined prod

YRC Worldwide Chief Financial Officer Sheila Taylor will leave the troubled trucking giant March 31 as it attempts to recruit new leadership and restructure its finances.

Khalid Ali Aldawsari studied more than English and chemical engineering in his two years as a U.S. college student.

The cargo carriers typically travel in a convoy, a line of trucks and escort vehicles, figuring there’s strength in numbers.

The debate over truck driver hours-of-service is bumping up against shipper docks, as some truckers and an influential member of Congress are calling for limits on the time shippers and receivers can

One way shippers and truckers can mitigate their risk to cargo theft in Mexico, security analysts say, is to develop strong relationships with key law enforcement officers and agencies.

Trucking hired 11,000 workers in February, accounting for half of a monthly gain in transportation and warehousing jobs, according to federal employment statistics.

Transportation costs could rise as much as 20 percent if the Department of Transportation cuts the time truck drivers may spend behind the wheel, the National Retail Federation says.

UPS agreed to pay a $1.3 million fine and to hire independent inspectors for its trucks in New York in a settlement with the attorney general there.

Business interests hailed a U.S.-Mexico agreement on cross-border trucking that is sure to be