Trucking News

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

YRC Worldwide's chief operations officer left his union employees no room for doubt about the importance of ratifying wage

UPS bought 130 hybrid electric vehicles to add to its growing alternative-fuel vehicle fleet.

DB Schenker completed the integration of the recently acquired Masped units with Hungarocargo and Romtrans Hungaria into Schenker Kft.

Truckload demand is rising although it is still below its peak of mid-June, and capacity remains tight on the West Coast, according to Longbow Research.

New orders for heavy trucks jumped 21.6 percent in September from the previous month, FTR Associates reports.

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Diesel prices across the United States jumped 4.9 cents last week to $3 per gallon, the first time since May 24 the average nationwide price has reached that threshold, according to the U.S.

A New Jersey-based retail distributor is shutting down after losing its sole remaining client, JC Penney.

The American Trucking Associations endorsed legislation for a Goods Movement Trust Fund financed by a 12-cent-a-gallon increase in diesel fuel taxes and is encouraging Congress to pass a similar gasol

As some of the largest ocean carriers prepare to abandon their practice of providing chassis at U.S.

One complicating factor in determining how chassis are managed is the way the economics of today’s equipment management fits into terminal and intermodal space.

Despite steady growth in hiring since February, the number of workers employed by for-hire trucking firms lags the level of a year ago and is far down from payroll numbers two years ago, an analysis o

Less-than-truckload carriers are firing rate increases aloft like flares, hoping to secure higher pricing that will keep them afloat in an uncertain economy.

Greenbriar Equity Group will buy same-day domestic ground and air freight specialist Dynamex for approximately $210 million.

UPS Freight will raise its non-contract rates 5.9 percent Oct. 18, becoming the fourth major less-than-truckload carrier to ask shippers for a general rate increase.

Trucking giant YRC Worldwide completed a 1-25 reverse stock split, boosting its per share value from about 25 cents Thursday to above $6 Friday morning.

Shares of YRC Worldwide plunged more than 20 percent in trading on Wall Street Thursday after an industry analyst urged investors to "get out of the stock today" when the troubled trucking giant said

The Teamsters union is offering to extend its current contract with YRC Worldwide for two years and accept dramatically reduced pension contributions in return for an unprecedented say in the manageme

FedEx Freight is raising the ante in what's quickly becoming a reverse less-than-truckload rate war, increasing its general tariff rates 6.9 percent Nov. 1.

The American Trucking Association's for-hire truck tonnage index fell 2.7 percent in August from July, its largest month-to-month drop since March 2009.

Bill Zollars, the YRC Worldwide chairman who built the company into the country’s largest industrial trucker and then had to rescue the business from the brink of failure, will retire as chairma

National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Deborah Hersman said it is "long past time" trucking firms took steps to reduce the risk of driver fatigue, after hearing evidence today that acute fatigu

A majority of shippers approve of FedEx's plans to merge its two trucking units and do not foresee diverting freight to competitors, a Wolfe Trahan survey finds.

After two weeks of rising prices, diesel last week fell nine-tenths of a cent to an average retail price of $2.951, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

The Los Angeles Harbor Commission Monday approved a schedule by which harbor trucking companies next year must begin phasing employee drivers into their fleets, with 100 percent employee drivers requi

ABF Freight System said today it will raise its general tariff rates 5.9 percent, following an identical increase announced last week by c

YRC Worldwide reached a tentative agreement with the Teamsters union on a comprehensive financial restructuring to help the struggling trucking giant survive.

The American Trucking Associations at the weekend filed its formal appeal with U.S. District Court Judge Christina A.

The Port of Los Angeles’ timetable for implementing the employee-driver concession requirement in its clean-trucks plan starts next year, but the harbor trucking industry in Southern California

At the start of 2007, FedEx Freight was on a roll.

Any trucking industry appeal of a ruling for the Port of Los Angeles clean-trucks plan will hinge on whether a court believes the country’s largest port is run not only by a government agency bu

In the first progress report on its ambitious National Export Initiative, the Obama administration rapped a solid base hit, but business leaders are looking for home runs.

Warnings of an impending shortage of drivers may be spreading through the trucking industry and its shipping customers, but there’s no sign of the problem at the central Pennsylvania headquarter

Commercial trailer orders rose 2 percent from July to August, and were up 55 percent from a year ago, ACT Research reports.

A stimulus-type grant fund of $600 million at the Department of Transportation has drawn nearly 1,000 applications from states totaling $19 billion in aid requests.

The railroad industry is urging Congress to block an Obama administration move to permanently allow Maine a

U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Thomas J.

FedEx Freight is studying a price increase of its own after YRC's general rate increase this week, Presi

The number of workers employed by for-hire trucking firms has grown steadily since February, but is still lower than it was a year ago and far smaller than payroll numbers two years ago, an analysis o