Trucking News

Detroit billionaire and bridge-owner Manuel "Matty" Maroun may oppose a government-owned span linking the Michigan city and Canada, but that won't stop him from setting up trucking operation

Old Dominion Freight Line will raise its rates an average of 4.4 percent, effective Jan. 18, the regional less-than-truckload carrier said Friday.

YRC Worldwide paid one of its top executives $400,000 this week as part of a non-competition and confidentially agreement that includes an additional $400,000 in incentive pay if he stays with the com

The latest in a series of strong winter storms is disrupting all forms of surface freight transportation, as rivers and rail switches ice up and some Interstate highways have closed at times from heav

A Port of Long Beach advertisement promoting its clean-truck plan to neighboring communities attracted the support of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 13.

Penske Truck Leasing entered into an agreement with the Bright family to acquire Bright Truck Leasing & Bright Distribution. Financial terms were not disclose

Less-than-truckload pricing, which took a sharp turn downward toward the end of the 2009, will begin to firm by the second half of 2010 regardless of whether YRC Worldwide is still in business, invest

Fewer shippers are considering diverting freight from YRC Worldwide in the wake of its successful debt-for-equity swap, but a significant percentage of shippers are still shifting volume to other carr

Dennis Copeland is leaving his position as senior vice president and chief administrative officer at Quality Distribution.

Shippers are returning to YRC Worldwide "pretty aggressively," Chairman and CEO William D.

Surface trade between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement partners Canada and Mexico grew for the fifth consecutive month in October and showed improvement in the rate of dec

The American Trucking Associations filed its final response brief with the U.S.

The first stage of an 86 percent increase in toll rates for trucks went into effect Tuesday on the U.S. side of the Blue Water Bridge, the third busiest U.S. international commercial land crossing.

A "systematic underbuy" of heavy trucks is tightening truckload capacity and eventually will push rates higher, R.W. Baird & Co. analyst Jon A. Langenfeld said.

Retail diesel prices surged last week across the country, soaring an average of 6.5 cents to $2.797 per gallon, less than a penny off the highest level in more than a year, according to the U.S.

Fresh from winning the bondholders it needed to complete its debt-for-equity swap, YRC Worldwide is preparing to take the swap to its shareholders for their approval.

Environmental groups are suing the Port of Long Beach and the American Trucking Associations, claiming a settlement involving the port’s clean trucks program is illegal and should be thrown out.

Federal regulators will start hearings around the country this month on plans to rewrite controversial hours-of-service rules for truck drivers.

With their striking orange-on-black color scheme, Schneider Regional trucks are the reverse image of Schneider National’s familiar black-on-orange units.

If drayage operators had any question that polluting trucks have no future in California, clean-trucks plans implemented at the port and state levels at the start of the new year should dispel a

Ongoing battles over proposed cap-and-trade legislation and efforts by ports to gain more control over harbor trucking will carry over into 2010.

Trucking executives had a handy source of confetti New Year’s Eve: all those less-than-truckload contracts they shredded in a fourth-quarter price war.

The employees of Arrow Trucking are taking the company to court over its sudden shutdown Dec. 23, charging the closure violated federal labor law.

Federal regulators, trying to bring order to the chaotic shutdown of Arrow Trucking, are ordering the company’s owners to bring Arrow’s trucks off the roads and under control.

Carlen Transport, the largest flatbed truck operator in Maine, ceased operations this week, saying high costs and weak demand from the housing and construction made it impossible to keep the company r

YRC Worldwide said Thursday it had won the critical support from bondholders the trucking giant needed to rebuild its finances and stave off bankruptcy.

YRC Worldwide said Wednesday the trucking company “will be open for business as usual on Monday” despite its unresolved bid for a financial overhaul and one investment analyst’s sugg

The Teamsters Union planned to hold an unusual picketing action outside the offices of Brigade Capital Management in New York to urge the hedge fund to cooperate with YRC Worldwide in its effort to re

The American Trucking Associations’ Truck Tonnage Index fell 3.5 percent compared with a year ago in November, which the ATA called an improvement after 12 months of steeper declines.

YRC Worldwide extended its debt-for-equity swap to the eve of a crucial debt payment deadline on Wednesday as the trucking giant and its unionized drivers raised the pressure on bondholders to accept

Backers of Arrow Trucking’s idled equipment provided a hotline this week for the company’s shippers as the failed flatbed operator revealed it would have to surmount massive financial hurd

Diesel prices edged up for the first time in two months as the national average on Monday climbed six-tenths of a cent to $2.732 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

YRC Worldwide extended its crucial debt-for-equity swap offer for a fourth time on Wednesday after the financially ailing trucking giant received little new support for an exchange aimed at helping th

Flatbed carrier Arrow Trucking suspended operations this week, stranding hundreds of drivers around the country on Christmas Eve as the company reportedly tries to get new financing to resume business

YRC Worldwide, hours from falling short of bondholder approval for a critical debt-for-equity swap, extended the offer's deadline for a third time on Wednesday, giving the company until

The Teamsters union wants the U.S.

Diesel fuel prices fell for the seventh straight week across the United States in the week ending Dec. 21, with the national average price sliding 2.2 cents, the U.S.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is delaying for six months the deadline for submission of driver vehicle inspection reports under the agency’s new roadability regulations for intermoda

Regional trucker Saia, seeking to restructure debt obligations amid falling demand and high costs, said Tuesday it will sell 2.3 million shares to institutional investors as part of a plan to make imp

Navistar International, the Warrenville, Ill.-based truck and engine manufacturer, on Monday reported fiscal fourth-quarter net profit of $86 million, reversing a $343 million net loss in the same qua