Trucking News

When it comes to complying with truck safety regulations, the devil is in the details. At many trucking companies, only the devil may know those details.

Although only a tiny percentage of truck drivers test positive for illegal drug use, those who do increasingly test positive for the use of drugs such as marijuana, PCP, amphetamines and opiates, acco

A slower-paced economy is evident in third quarter freight volumes, but not in trucking profits.

Ryder System's earnings leaped 40 percent to $39.7 million in the third quarter on a 5 percent increase in revenue to $1.32 billion, the Miami-based company said.

Knight Transportation rode strong truckload demand to higher profit in the third quarter, while building its truck count up to a record high of 3,912 tractors.

Net orders for heavy trucks rose sharply in September from August and from September 2009, defying sales expectations and a slowing economy.

Truckload carrier Heartland Express improved its profitability in the third quarter, reporting what looks almost like a railroad operating ratio: 77.2.

North American shippers may be on the verge of a second intermodal revolution.

YRC Worldwide is reportedly prepared to shut down subsidiary New Penn if Teamsters at the regional carrier reject proposed wage and pension concessions.

YRC Worldwide cleared another hurdle to survival by renewing its $300 million asset-backed securitization, or ABS facility, before an Oct. 31 deadline.

Trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line is expanding an overseas partnership aimed at expediting less-than-containerload freight shipped to the U.S. from China.

The nation's former top truck safety watchdog is turning to the law -- not as an enforcer but a practitioner.

As many as half of the driver qualification files motor carriers keep are incomplete or inaccurate, according to a survey of trucking customers by LexisNexis.

Profit and revenue leaped at Werner Enterprises in the third quarter, even as the freight surge that lifted the trucking industry in the second quarter ebbed.

Diesel prices inched upward seven-tenths of a cent last week to an average of $3.073 per gallon nationwide in their third consecutive weekly increase, according to the U.S.

The sluggish pace of economic recovery tops truckers’ long list of critical issues despite four straight quarters of economic growth and a strong surge in freight demand this year, the American Transp

YRC Worldwide expects to narrow its losses in the third quarter on the back of higher tonnages and revenue per load, the nation's largest trucker said Monday.

The recession is driving more business to Daimler Truck Financial USA as banks tighten the credit lines of trucking customers.

When Daimler executive Juergen Rochert wants to know how the trucking industry is faring, he simply looks at how quickly his customers pay their bills.

Bruce Davenport operates a farm near Kingston, N.Y., where he grows sweet corn, peppers, cantaloupe, kale, broccoli and other produce that he sells to local supermarkets and wholesalers in Albany.

Mexico will no longer accept a U.S. pilot program as a way of allowing Mexican trucks to operate in the U.S., a senior Mexican diplomat said Friday.

Stronger pricing and freight volume pushed Landstar System's third-quarter revenue up to $623 million, a 24 percent increase from a year ago.

After 14 years of drilling, Swiss engineers Oct.

Intermodal trucker J.B. Hunt Transport Services increased its profit 30.5 percent in the third quarter from a year ago, reporting net earnings of $52.2 million.

For-hire transportation carriers in the U.S. domestic market handled 0.6 percent less volume in ton-miles in August than in July, the Transportation Department said.

U.S.-based heavy equipment maker Caterpillar is expanding its logistics and manufacturing operations overseas with new ventures in Australia, South Africa and China.

Integrated Freight is expanding its trucking operations in the Midwest by acquiring M. Bruenger Trucking, Wichita, Kan., for approximately $11 million.

Clean-air regulations affecting heavy-duty trucks and 53-foot trailers in California will continue in force no matter what happens in the Nov.

Diesel prices soared 6.6 cents last week to $3.066 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

A dissident Teamster who started her career as a warehouse worker and truck driver is challenging James P. Hoffa for the top job in the Teamsters union.

Trucking employment fell slightly in September, ending a six-month growth streak, according to preliminary data from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.

President Obama called Monday for sweeping investment in infrastructure, putting new urgency to his pledge of more funding and jobs through a broad national plan for transportation.

Choptank Transport works with some of the largest food shippers in the nation, but most of its customers are small businesses looking to expand into new markets.

Whoever YRC Worldwide picks as its next chairman will have to answer to a higher authority: the Teamsters union.

Refrigerated trucking isn’t what it used to be, and that’s a good thing for Choptank Transport, a third-party specialist in temperature-controlled transportation.

In WTO Rulings, It’s China, 2; US, 0

William D. Zollars will end his career at YRC Worldwide as he began it, with the reorganization of a trucking giant struggling to adapt to a changing market.

There are some temperature-controlled commodities even a specialist such as Choptank Transport won’t touch.

In a matter of months, William D. Zollars is expected to vacate the chairman’s office at YRC Worldwide, leaving his successor to radically restructure the trucking enterprise.

Canadian shippers saw overall ground transportation costs rise 3 percent month-to-month in July, according to the latest Canadian General Freight Index.