Trucking News

Even as President Obama unveiled plans to hold a “jobs summit” to help fight the nation’s 10 percent-plus unemployment rate, concern was festering over how his administration has app

A new study by the Federal Railroad Administration says Class I freight railoads boosted their fuel efficiency by 21.5 percent from 1990 to 2006, aided by adoption of more fuel-efficient locomotives a

FedEx Ground, the small-package ground delivery unit of FedEx, this week opened a distribution facility in Medley, Fla.

Intermodal drayage specialist C&K Trucking, Chicago, acquired competitor Transportation Made Simple, expanding the size of its fleet by one third to approximately 600 trucks and adding muscle in s

The trucking industry is still mired in the recession and likely won’t pull out until some time next year, according to a widely accepted index of conditions in the market.

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters said no talks are under way with ABF Freight System that would result in concessions for its members.

Trucking companies that are surviving in today's treacherous economic environment will be well positioned to prosper when traffic begins to rebound next year, according to carrier and shipper executiv

The National Labor Relations Board has tapped the last of $41 million in back pay owed to about 2,000 Michigan Teamsters, closing what may be the federal agency’s largest back pay order on recor

Not all motor carriers see cutting excess capacity as the best road to higher rates and improved profitability.

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The average retail price for a gallon of diesel fuel slipped 1.1 cents during the past week to $2.79, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Truckers moving hazardous materials between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, will have to take a long detour beginning Nov. 23.

Trucking company A. Duie Pyle is expanding its warehousing operations, opening a 243,000-square-foot warehouse in Westfield, Mass.

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Fatigue “is one of the most insidious issues in the transportation industry,” and more must be done to fight it, said Deborah A.P.

Volvo Group will sell its half interest in a Chinese truck manufacturer six years after joining the partnership.

FedEx Freight, the less-than-truckload division of FedEx, agreed to a partnership with Vision Industries to test a tractor powered by the hydrogen/electric hybrid Tyrano drive train.

Deep discounting slashed less-than-truckload rates in the third quarter as carriers tried to knock the nation’s largest LTL trucker, YRC Worldwide, out of business. No one delivered that kn

Truck buyers put the pedal to the metal in October, sending Class 8 truck sales zooming 104 percent from September and 117 percent over October 2008.

Having redrawn its business model over the years, J.B. Hunt Transport Services now appears intent on redrawing the nation’s intermodal map.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will hold webinars on its Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010 initiative Dec. 3 and Dec. 10, at 3:30 p.m. EST.

During her Senate confirmation hearing, then-nominee Anne S. Ferro heard an earful about the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s record enforcing truck safety rules.

Intermodal marketing companies, middleman firms that arrange either all-highway or combined rail-truck shipments for clients such as factories or retail stores, used trains for a greater share of thei

Shippers and carriers expect there will be sufficient capacity in the domestic transportation system to handle the modest growth in traffic that will occur in the coming year, but eventually there wil

Smaller logistics operators and freight brokers outperformed their larger counterparts in the third quarter, but a less-than-robust recovery is squeezing profit margins at all 3PLs, said the Transport

Average truckload rates fell 9.4 percent in the third quarter despite sharp cuts in capacity compared to last year, carrier Covenant Transport said in a securities filing.

Kenan Advantage Group, the nation’s largest bulk over-the-road fuel transporter, is expanding its territory and business in the Pacific Northwest by acquiring the assets of fuel hauler Reinhard

The city of Los Angeles has spent more than $1 million in lobbying and litigation to defend the port’s clean truck concession requirements, according to a Southern California attorney.

The output of the freight transportation industry declined 0.5 percent in September from August, blunting a three-month long recovery, according to a report Thursday from the U.S.

FedEx says it expects no more audits from the Internal Revenue Service now that the agency for the second time dropped a look at potential penalties in the company’s classification of parcel division

Shares of trucking company Celadon Group began trading on the New York Stock Exchange Nov. 10, after the Indianapolis-based company shifted its listing from the Nasdaq stock market.

At a time when many trucking companies are hard up for cash, Werner Enterprises says it will deliver $90 million in special dividends to shareholders next month.

To fully equip a Bronx, N.Y., station as the company’s first all-hybrid facility, FedEx Express ordered 51 new hybrid vehicles from Azure Dynamics.

Old Dominion Freight Line will speed service through its Northwest gateway into Canada starting Nov. 9, connecting more than 65 Old Dominion service centers to Edmonton and Calgary, Canada.

National Refrigerated Trucking, a truckload and less-than-truckload refrigerated trucking company, opened a new LTL lane to Georgia and Florida.

The average price of diesel fell for the first time in five weeks, dropping seven-tenths of a cent to $2.801 per gallon in the week ending Nov. 9, according to the U.S.

YRC Worldwide is taking a giant leap over the chasm of bankruptcy, offering bondholders up to 95 percent of its common stock in return for wiping more than $500 million in debt from its books.

Bruce J. Carlton took charge at the National Industrial Transportation League just as the economy began its worst contraction in decades.

The U.S. Senate confirmed Anne S.

The United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware approved Nov. 3 the sale of time definite regional carrier Velocity Express to private investor Comvest Investment Partners.