Trucking News

The battle over who will drive the trucks in clean-air programs being rolled out at ports across the country is now being waged on three fronts — federal court in Los Angeles, a U.S.

Expedited trucking is a premium service, commanding a premium price. But that price might not be as high as shippers think, carrier executives said.

If you thrive in a stable work environment defined by regular day-to-day routines, please don’t consider a career in expedited trucking.

When a shipment absolutely, positively has to arrive no later than yesterday, what do shippers do? First they pray . . . then they call an expedited trucking company.

Profit is paving the way to expansion at Old Dominion Freight Line.

In the Obama administration’s vision for a future with free-flowing highways, cleaner air in cities and ports and lower climate-heating carbon emissions, intermodal rail leads the way.

Data Quality isn’t just the concern of billion-dollar carriers such as U.S. Xpress Enterprises.

Trucking companies rely on more than rubber and fuel to operate; data from operations, sales, accounting and maintenance are vital to their services.

The American Trucking Associations supports President Obama’s call for the first national fuel-economy standards for medium- and heavy-duty trucks.

FedEx Ground is tightening its standards for independent contractors, responding to concerns raised by several states, Dow Jones Newswires reports.

President Obama signed a presidential order today that for the first time would establish fuel economy standards and greenhouse gas emissions limits for heavy-duty and medium trucks, starting in 2014.

Con-way completed a $143.7 million stock offering, raising funds for capital expenditures, including new trucks for its fleets.

The U.S. Postal Service is overhauling its mail and shipping structure, merging the expedited and ground operations into a single Shipping Services group.

The May 5 hearing by the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure into the Port of Los Angeles' clean-trucks program may spawn yet another investigation of the program, this one dealing wi

The Reliance Network, a partnership linking several regional less-than-truckload carriers in the U.S. and Canada, is expanding while changing some of its carrier members.

Trucking executives may get the driver shortage they fear unless they reverse wage trends in the industry, an investment research firm warned today.

Trucking yield and rates aren't rising as quickly as demand despite a surge in freight volume on highways in the first quarter, according to new figures on the trucking market.

APL Logistics, a unit of Singapore-based Neptune Orient Lines, plans to expand its place in the North American intermodal market with a focus on the link between customers’ international and dom

Diesel prices fell last week for the first time in seven weeks, sliding an average of 3.3 cents to $3.094 per gallon, according to a report Monday from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

The watershed Los Angeles clean-truck lawsuit is one step closer to conclusion, with the port stating in its closing arguments that it is exempt from federal pre-emption law because it is a market par

Trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line expanded its international freight forwarding business, opening four regional command centers to guide shipments through its domestic and global networks.

Roadrunner Transportation Services completed an initial public offering, becoming one of a very few trucking and logistics companies to go public in recent years.

The Department of Transportation keeps saying it wants to “get trucks off the road” in reshaping the nation’s freight and passenger infrastructure.

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach spent almost $80 million combined on incentives to get carriers and owner-operators driving clean diesel trucks.

The Department of Transportation’s policy plans for 2010-2015 would: -- Focus transportation policy on “achieving strategic outcomes” in broader national goals.

Profitability and higher pricing evaded Con-way Freight in the first quarter, despite a 34.8 percent surge in freight tonnage that filled the carrier’s less-than-truckload network.

For a few hours this month, Congress trained a spotlight on someone rarely noticed in Washington — the trucker who works the nation’s ports, hauling containers from docks to distribution p

The Department of Transportation is expected to brief members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on a plan for cross-border trucking with Mexico before Mexican President Felipe C

Intermodal marketing companies tilted their traffic share much more toward rail-truck combination moves in the first quarter and away from all-highway loads, according to the Intermodal Association of

Cross-border trade with Canada isn't just about sales and profit, it's about millions of jobs, U.S. and Canadian business executives told members of Congress this week.

First-quarter intermodal shipments across North America rose 8.4 percent, as domestic rail-truck moves outpaced even a sharp rebound in international containers placed aboard trains.

Revenue shot up 58 percent in the first quarter at ground and air carrier Express-1 Expedited Solutions, rising to $31.6 billion, as the economic recovery fueled sales.

The nation's freight tonnage shrank almost 13 percent last year, but is set to expand 25 percent by 2021, according to a report by the American Trucking Associations.

Truckload spot freight volume jumped 291 percent in April from the same month a year ago, hitting its highest level since June 2008, according to TransCore.

Con-way will sell some 4.3 million shares of its stock in a special offering aimed at bringing new cash into the trucking and logistics company for what Con-way said would be “general corporate

A survey next month aims to discover what the trucks that cross the Thousand Islands Bridge each day between the United States and Canada are carrying.

Climate and energy legislation proposed May 12 by Sens.

Canadian National Railway worked out a “modal shift protocol” with a British Columbia firm that markets carbon offsets, to count freight that shifts off trucks onto rail.

Virginia's new Republican governor is seeking a green light for tolling on a portion of I-95 near the North Carolina border.

Con-way Freight is expanding its international partnership with TNT to bring trans-Atlantic freight to Miami and Los Angeles.