Trucking News

Support for broad-based pension reform is growing in Washington as businesses and labor unions seek a federal fix for troubled union and corporate retirement plans.

If you’ve ever received a package from UPS, you’re all too familiar with those tiny handheld devices the drivers wield to scan bar codes and get your signature.

Container terminal operators in Los Angeles-Long Beach have taken their lumps over the years because of congestion problems, but they have also been innovators in reducing gate delays through the Pier

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Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., unveiled legislation on March 22 that would reform multi-employer pension plans.

Specialized truckload carrier Prime raised its minimum pay for owner-operators last month to 95 cents a mile, as growing freight traffic sparks higher demand for drivers.

The select group of trucking companies with more than a billion dollars in annual revenue shrank last year, as four companies fell below the revenue threshold.

More than 5,000 trucking companies will be required to install electronic on-board recorders in their trucks, the Department of Transportation said Friday.

March brought increases in employment across U.S. surface transportation industries, with mild job gains in trucking, rail and waterborne commerce breaking a long downtrend during the recession.

The two largest trucking businesses increased their market share last year despite falling revenue, holding onto business better than many of their smaller competitors.

Flooding after torrential rains left parts of Interstate 95 in Rhode Island under more than three feet of water Wednesday and Thursday.

Specialized truckload carrier Prime managed to do something none of the 49 other top trucking companies accomplished in 2009: Increase its revenue.

Demand for Class 8 heavy trucks will increase just 3 percent this year, but shoot up more than 50 percent in 2011, research firm FTR Associates says.

A congressional panel set a hearing for May 5 on proposals to allow the economic regulation of harbor trucking, an issue that has sharply divided shippers and trade groups from a handful of ports and

Truckload operator Knight Transportation is working on the potential acquisition of a fellow carrier that generated $450 million in revenue last year.

The Department of Transportation proposed a rule Wednesday that would make permanent a two-month-old ban on cell-phone texting by truck and bus drivers.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood tapped 10 leading analysts representing the freight industry, state highway agencies and academia to advise his Department on data it gathers.

Trade using surface transportation between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement partners Canada and Mexico soared 19.5 percent from January 2009 to January 2010 in the largest

FedEx Express today unveiled plans to test its first all-electric parcel delivery vans, plugging two of four test trucks into its Los Angeles-area fleet in June.

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Slipping an average of seven-tenths of a cent across the country, the price of diesel ended a five-week climb at $2.939 per gallon Monday, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Increased truckload freight demand is showing up in surging trailer sales, says ACT Research.

Con-way Freight and TNT are expanding their trans-Atlantic partnership to include shipping U.S. exports to Europe, targeting freight shipments weighing more than 150 pounds.

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Trucking executives are worried about a driver shortage, but some drivers may be more worried about keeping their jobs.

The less-than-truckload sector is yielding to the demands of yield, carrier executives insist, turning from price-cutting aimed at rapidly gaining market share to rebuilding profit.

More trucking company failures and higher truckload rates may be coming sooner than many shippers think.

When it comes to measuring productivity at marine terminals, The Tioga Group has some advice: Look to the gates, not the acres.

Truck tonnage increased 2.6 percent last month, compared with February 2009, according to the American Trucking Associations’ advance seasonally adjusted index.

Heavy truck and engine maker Navistar is bringing Menlo Worldwide Logistics in to help manage its domestic as well as its global supply chain, thereby expanding their partnership to cut the manufactur

Forwarder UTi Worldwide swung to a $1.5 million net profit in its fourth fiscal quarter ended Jan. 31 from an $89.8 million loss in the same period a year earlier.

The value of YRC Worldwide’s stock climbed nearly 20 percent yesterday, rising from 45.5 cents to 56 cents a share on the Nasdaq stock exchange.

A business-backed coalition is pressing the House of Representatives to act quickly on pension funding reform before April deadlines that affect defined benefit plans.

President Obama remains opposed to raising federal fuel taxes while the economy is trying to recover despite calls in Congress to increase those fees to fund new legislation, said Deputy Transportatio

The Department of Transportation’s second-highest official told senators that DOT’s preference for freight shipping is keep goods on waterways and rail as much as possible, getting them aw

YRC is simplifying pricing for expedited less-than-truckload freight as it tries to entice new customers and win back freight transferred to other LTL carriers.

A coalition of employers, labor unions and lawmakers is pressing Congress for “temporary pension funding relief” that would allow companies to extend the deadline for fully funding their d

Speaking at a trucking company in his home state, Sen.

Turnaround specialist Atlantic Street Capital sold its same-day delivery business, Fleetgistics, to Harbour Group, a St. Louis-based holding company.

Bankrupt flatbed carrier Arrow Trucking owes creditors nearly $100 million and has assets of only $8.5 million, documents filed in U.S. bankruptcy court in Oklahoma show.