Trucking News

Freight shipping demand slowed in the third quarter, but many of the nation’s largest trucking companies improved their bottom lines by carefully matching capacity to demand and better utilizing

Truck freight volume rose for the second straight month in October, pushing for-hire truck tonnage up 6.1 percent year-to-date compared with the first 10 months of 2009.

Southeastern Freight Lines is expanding its workforce by hiring 900 employees, bringing its total headcount to more than 7,000 workers by the end of 2010.

Orders of new trailers hit a 33-month high in October, as dry van trailer orders more than doubled, according to ACT Research. Total orders topped of 17,000 units.

APL Logistics hired two veteran intermodal experts to strengthen its inland transport capabilities.

Last-minute changes to the Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010 initiative announced last Thursday will benefit truckers, but will leave some shippers wondering how to assess their carriers’ safet

Like any good buyer, Brown Trucking’s Brian Kinsey has a checklist of sorts for evaluating a potential acquisition.

Is this the time to buy or sell a trucking company? Businesses on both sides of the question are concluding the time is right for the sort of transactions missing since the beginning of the U.S.

Bengt Henriksen has been importing fireworks for years, contracting with a large motor carrier to haul his hazardous cargo from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to local warehouses and rail ram

After watching freight volumes moderate or slip in the late summer and early fall, some trucking companies are enjoying a late peak shipping season.

The American Trucking Associations petitioned the U.S.

Cash-carrying The Brink's Co. is expanding in Mexico by buying the country's largest secure logistics company, Servicio Pan Americano de Proteccion.

YRC plans to close 31 terminals in the Midwest, South and East, ratcheting back its total terminal network to about 320 facilities.

UPS Freight is speeding its cross-border service to Western Canada, extending its two-day and three-day delivery network to the energy-rich region.

Three YRC Worldwide subsidiaries asked a federal court to toss out ABF Freight System's lawsuit challenging their latest pact with the Teamsters union.

Container truck drivers at India’s Port of Chennai ended a three-day strike Wednesday morning, allowing the movement of ocean freight traffic to and from the country’s second-largest container gateway

ABF Freight System intends to press its lawsuit against the Teamsters union in federal court and is not using its filing to pressure the union to negotiate a separate settlement, President and CEO Wes

Trailer Bridge reported a narrow $6,876 net profit for the third quarter, compared with $1.7 million a year earlier, as the carrier’s revenue fell 3.4 percent to $29.3 million.

New safety regulations will tighten truck capacity for shippers, perhaps dramatically, perhaps as early as the second half of 2011, pushing up truck rates and potentially shifting some freight to othe

The retail price of diesel fuel surged 6.8 cents last week to $3.184 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Pitt Ohio Express is changing its name and its brand to reflect a broader business that goes "beyond the road" and the company's less-than-truckload roots.

Shortly after al Qaeda affiliates in Yemen tried to blow UPS and FedEx cargo planes out of the sky, Boyd Stephenson spoke with trucking executives concerned about trucking security and the potential f

Less-than-truckload carriers are turning away unprofitable freight and refining networks to lower costs and gain efficiency, but shippers have largely held off the kind of price hikes those carriers s

There is only a "slim" chance the appellate court handling the Port of Los Angeles clean-truck case will agree with U.S.

President Obama's deficit cutting panel delivered plans for transportation policy that include a gradual 15-cent increase in federal fuel taxes to shore up the Highway Trust Fund and a proposal that t

A shipper organization wants the Obama administration to release rewritten hours-of-service rules for truck drivers, kept under wraps since July.

The economy may be slowing, but truck demand is picking up, and will double by 2013, according to ACT Research.

The American Trucking Associations recruited a top Republican Senate staffer to lead its advocacy efforts on Capitol Hill, including its campaign to secure reauthorization of the surface transportatio

International Longshoremen’s Association official Harold Daggett said he’s ready for “war” with container lines transferring intermodal chassis service to companies outside the

Truckload demand increased and capacity tightened in the first week of November following three straight weeks of decline, according to Longbow Research.

The Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index fell 0.6 percent in October, pointing to a drop in trucking activity in what's typically a strong month for truck traffic.

The national average retail price of diesel jumped 4.9 cents to $3.116 per gallon in the week ending Nov. 8, according to the U.S.

Old Dominion Freight Line will raise its base rates about 4.9 percent Nov. 15, joining several less-than-truckload carriers pursuing early general rate increases.

Swift Transportation faces a class-action lawsuit alleging the nation's largest truckload carrier underpaid its truck drivers for at least a dozen years.

Southeastern short-haul carrier Brown Trucking acquired West Brothers' Companies, expanding its capacity and adding new lines of business.

Winning a third round of concessions from its Teamsters employees gave YRC Worldwide its best shot yet at survival, extending until 2015 wage and benefit cuts it won last year and sharply reducing its

Which carriers won last year’s less-than-truckload price war? Based on the financial results across the industry, it was those who refused to fight.

The labor concessions approved by 62 percent of YRC Teamsters employees eliminate fears of an imminent shutdown at the nation’s largest trucking operator, both at its nationwide less-than-truckl

The gap between new and used truck prices is widening, and that may further restrict truck capacity in coming years as carriers replace aging equipment.

The battle between the Teamsters union and the American Trucking Associations will drag out into next year, but the rules of engagement could change significantly.