Trucking News

Retail diesel prices edged up eight-tenths of a cent last week to a national average of $3.438 per gallon, according to figures from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

A federal judge ordered an Indiana concrete company to restore pay and benefits to 23 cement truck drivers who were cut following a Teamsters strike.

The Department of Transportation on Monday proposed all trucking companies be required to install electronic onboard recorders to monitor driver hours of service.

Higher rates and better utilization of its equipment helped Covenant Transportation pull out of the red and post a profit for the fourth quarter and the year.

There’s been no shortage of argument and legal battling over the clean-trucks programs at Southern California’s ports, but there’s no dispute that the program has worked remarkably w

Truckers trying to keep a tight grip on capacity are rethinking how they use it.

The fragile state of the retail supply chain became clear to Wayne Spain in December as he went from store to store searching for a particular gift.

There’s one area where FedEx Freight will stick to the LTL playbook: pricing.

It’s not quite 2008 again, but heads up: After two years of relative stability, transportation fuel prices are creeping back up, raising costs across the supply chain and concerns that the heavi

Bill Logue will launch a new trucking company Jan. 31 — FedEx Freight. It will look much the same as the old FedEx Freight. Its rates won’t change.

What’s most likely to keep trucking executives awake in the early hours of the morning this year? If you said higher fuel prices, stingy lenders or rising equipment costs, forget it.

Truckload operator USA Truck lost $1.8 million in the fourth quarter, despite a decline in empty miles and substantial increase in trucking revenue.

Canadian shipping costs dropped for the second straight month in November, as freight demand cooled in the fall, according to the Canadian General Freight Index.

Stronger intermodal and trucking demand gave J.B. Hunt Transport Services a fourth quarter boost, with net profit increasing 39 percent to $57.9 million.

Hostility toward proposed changes to truck driver hours of service rules could come to a boil at a Feb. 17 public hearing with federal regulators in Arlington, Va.

Knight Transportation is breaking from the truckload pack, adding capacity and increasing its length of

Higher spot market and contract pricing and fewer empty miles boosted Werner Enterprises' net profit 34 percent in the fourth quarter to $24.1 million.

YRC Worldwide will cut 80 jobs in Akron, Ohio, and is looking for a buyer for the former headquarters of Roadway Express there, the Akron Beacon Journal reported.

Heartland Express Chairman and CEO Russell Gerdin will take a leave of absence from his position at the truckload carrier for health reasons, the company said.

Congressional leaders are moving a new six-year surface transportation bill higher on their priority lists after President Obama’s call for infrastructure investment in his State of the Union ad

Higher intermodal and logistics revenue boosted fourth quarter profits and sales at temperature-controlled trucker Marten Transport, Mondovi, Wis.

Truck tonnage rose 5.7 percent last year compared with 2009, helping tonnage to recovery from an 8.7 percent plunge, the American Trucking Associations said.

Truckload carrier Celadon Group’s net profit increased to $2.9 million in its last quarter, nearly triple its net income a year ago of $1 million.

Transportation trade groups are praising President Obama's call to rebuild the nation’s efforts infrastructure but some members of Congress say the administration will have to put more details b

Swift Transportation raised its operating revenue 16.8 percent year-over-year in the fourth quarter to $780.4 million as it increased volume and raised rates.

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Canadian trucking operator Vitran is trying to redraw North America’s less-than-truckload map, and its own expansion strategy, by acquiring the LTL business of Milan Express.

Trucking operators aren’t buying trucks to expand capacity; they’re buying trucking companies.

Sometime in the next few months, President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will unveil a broad, new vision for the border separating the world’s two largest trading partners, re

Truck safety regulators are focusing increasingly not on the truck but on the driver who operates it.

Why should anyone worry about improving bridges between the U.S. and Canada? U.S. imports plummeted 33 percent between from 2008 to 2009, and U.S. exports slid 21 percent.

Heartland Express increased its profit 43.9 percent year-over-year to $15.4 million in the fourth quarter, as sales rose 13.7 percent to $129.2 million.

India’s Port of Chennai, which is struggling to cope with increased congestion, broke ground on the Chennai-Ennore road connectivity project, a long-standing demand of trade and user associations.

Trucking companies are telling Union Pacific Railroad are indicating they want to push a greater share of their freight onto trains for long-haul transport, says James R.

Heavy truck sales hit their highest point since May 2006 in December, as trucking companies put newfound profits into new vehicles, said ACT Research.

Average diesel fuel prices leaped 7.4 cents a gallon across the United States in the past week, the sharpest increase in a two-month surge in pricing that has pushed cost of the fuel to $3.407 a gallo

Truckload demand is slackening in January, loosening freight capacity that tightened during the pre-holiday shipping season, according to Longbow Research.

ABF Freight System is taking its legal challenge against concession agreements negotiated by YRC Worldwide and the Teamsters to the U.S. Court of Appeals.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said he expects to have an agreement to revive cross-border trucking between the U.S. and Mexico by the middle of the year after sending U.S.

Trucking company Cargo Transportation Services can attempt to reorganize after a U.S. bankruptcy court judge gave the company the cash it needs to keep rolling.