Trucking News

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

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

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.

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

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

The Department of Transportation’s push to complete infrastructure stimulus projects led it to pay out $6 billion over the summer to reimburse states for completed work, nearly a third of the amount t

Trucking giant YRC Worldwide raised its tariff rates at national carrier YRC by 5.9 percent Sept.

The Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners on Sept.

Greek lawmakers Wednesday voted to reform the nation's protected trucking industry as striking drivers clashed with police and blocked key highways on the tenth day of a nationwide walkout.

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., said Tuesday he will be working on a bill to create a national infrastructure bank that should be ready by the time the 112th Congress convenes in January 2011.

UPS said it is preparing to follow its ban on driver texting with a broader policy on use of cell and smart phones while its employees are behind the wheel, in support of federal policies to combat di

The Greek parliament will vote on controversial plans to deregulate road transport Tuesday as a nationwide truck drivers' protest strike entered its second week.

The White House is drawing fire from highway safety advocates for its support of pilot projects permitting heavier trucks on interstate highways in two states.

The retail price of diesel increased 1.7 cents to an average of $2.96 per gallon last week, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

YRC Worldwide is asking the Teamsters union for a new round of “cost savings,” but the price could be high for the largest U.S. trucking operator.

The shipping surge that benefited many truckers in the second quarter also boosted third-party logistics companies and freight brokers, raising the total dollars they billed 13 percent over the same q

The Port of Los Angeles plans to begin phasing in the employee-driver mandate in its clean-truck program over three years with a requirement that each motor carrier handle 20 percent of the company&rs

In a filing late Thursday, the American Trucking Associations stated it will ask Christina A.

Truckload spot market freight volume dropped 13.8 percent in August from July, continuing a slide from its peak in April, according to TransCore's North American Freight Index.

The UK Office of Fair Trading raided the offices of a truck manufacturer in Britain Thursday and arrested at least one executive in a price-fixing investigation.

Higher core sales, a strong Canadian dollar and higher fuel surcharges increased total revenue and net profit at same-day trucker Dynamex, Dallas.

Judge Christina A.

Struggling with rising freight volume and continuing losses, FedEx will merge its FedEx Freight and FedEx National LTL networks, closing as many as 100 facilities.

Fedex doubled its net profit in its quarter ending Aug. 31 to $380 million on strong expansion in international express shipping, but the company issued a forecast for slower global economic growth.

The number of people killed in motor vehicle crashes dropped to 33,808 in 2009, the lowest number since 1950, says the Department of Transportation.