Trucking News

Truckers got a BIG BREAK — and Pennsylvania a big hole in its budget — when federal authorities said no to a state proposal to slap tolls on east-west Interstate 80.

As a trucker, Pat Quinn may have felt like a fish out of water at a marine highways conference focused on short-sea shipping.

With the transportation industry searching last year for any “green shoots” to hint at a recovery in the freight sector, this year there are plenty of saplings.

ABF Freight System reached a tentative agreement on new contract terms with the Teamsters union that will likely include wage and work concessions aimed at cutting the trucking company’s operati

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Environmental and labor interests warned Thursday that the clean-air benefits being realized today by the introduction of thousands of new trucks in Los Angeles-Long Beach harbor will be lost in subse

Landstar System increased sales 14.4 percent to $548.1 million in the first quarter, increasing the number of truckloads hauled 16.9 percent.

Rising intermodal volume and truckload improvements boosted revenue 17 percent at J.B. Hunt Transport Services, backing claims of a first-quarter freight recovery.

The Department of Transportation’s chief financial officer became the latest administration official to speak out against raising motor fuel taxes to bolster federal revenue and infrastructure s

Instead of working on a new cross-border trucking program with Mexico, some members of Congress want the United States to renegotiate the North America Free Trade Agreement.

Disbursements by the Department of Transportation under the economic stimulus law reached $10.437 billion as of March 31, an increase of about $1 billion from February to pay for projects dominated by

Truckload spot market freight volume reached pre-recession levels in March, climbing 259 percent from a year ago and 14 percent from March 2008, according to TransCore’s North American Freight I

Domestic intermodal rail weathered the economic recession better than most transportation modes, and the industry appears now to be on the verge of experiencing unprecedented growth.

Timothy A. Wicks resigned his post as president and chief operating officer of YRC Worldwide today to return to his former employer, United Healthcare.

ABF Freight System agreed to an independent review of its finances as it seeks concessions from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

Fuel marketers and resellers Monday urged Congress to restore a biodiesel tax credit that expired at the end of 2009, depressing production and raising the price of biodiesel.

Large increases in the last two weeks brought the average price of diesel to $3.069 per gallon, according to a report Monday from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Freight brokers are studying whether they can help correct a steep imbalance in transportation equipment availability that is hurting efforts of U.S. exporters to get goods to overseas markets.

The global logistics chief for Duty Free Shops is calling on freight brokers to straighten out gray areas in liability which he says leave his company too easily exposed to injury claims by independen

The trucking industry shrank rapidly last year, as the worst financial crisis in decades eliminated billions of dollars in freight revenue and erased years of growth at many carriers.

In the latest sign of the Obama administration’s commitment to inland waterways, the Department of Transportation is launching a formal marine highway program to be funded through dedicated gran

From one end of the country to the other, shippers of the largest grain crops — soybeans, wheat and especially corn — are gearing up to fill the supply chain needs of late 2010 and 2011.

Knight Transportation is considering the potential acquisition of a fellow truckload carrier that generated about $450 million in revenue last year.

Rhode Island is still drying out from late-March floods that swamped the state and shut down a part of Interstate 95 between New York and Boston, but the Department of Transportation is already sendin

The Department of Transportation’s payments to states for work done under economic stimulus projects reached $10.264 billion by March 26, up $286 million from a week earlier.

Averitt Express is the latest less-than-truckload carrier to tigthen transit times in thousands of lanes.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is delaying its CSA 2010 safety program to give trucking companies more time to prepare.

Concern is building that coming climate change legislation in the Senate could propose a tax on motor fuels that would divert some future fees from the Highway Trust Fund.

Trucking giant YRC Worldwide says its daily shipment volume improved month-to-month in the first quarter, but business levels remained depressed from a year ago.

Nearly half of the truckload carriers polled in a recent survey said they were not prepared for new federal driver safety rules.

The Obama administration rejected Pennsylvania’s latest attempt to use tolls on Interstate 80 to raise revenue, prompting criticism from Gov. Ed Rendell.

Less-than-truckload carrier Estes is changing its freight routing network to speed shipments moving between its Midwestern terminals and other U.S. markets.

UPS is deploying 200 hybrid diesel-electric delivery trucks in eight cities across the United States, increasing the size of its hybrid electric fleet by 400 percent.

Truckload carrier Western Express plans to raise $275 million by selling eight-year securities and use the funds to pay down debt and to buy new trucks.

The 83-year-old Peace Bridge, for more than 20 years a ground of local conflict, should receive by this summer the final go-ahead to reinvent itself with a twin span between Buffalo, N.Y., and Fort Er

The average price of diesel fuel jumped 7.6 cents last week to $3.015 per gallon, pushing beyond the $3 threshold for the first time in 17 months, according to figures released Monday by the U.S.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is expected to release a date for the introduction of significant new truck and driver safety rules “in the coming weeks.”

The Obama administration is forming a national freight transportation policy that can be boiled down to one concept: Get more trucks off the roads.

The marine highways concept has a number of selling points.