Trucking News

Less-than-truckload carrier Con-way says it moved toward "more aggressive" price discounting in the third quarter than it normally uses and started hiring back workers to cope with tonnage g

Heavy truck sales surged in October, rising 117 percent year-over-year and 104 percent from September, as freight volumes showed signs of improving and carriers began a last-minute round of truck purc

A broad group of retailers and other shippers called on the mayors of New York and Newark, N.J., to withdraw their support for changes in federal law that would allow local regulators to bar independe

After losing $143.2 million in the second quarter, Quality returned to profit in the third quarter and improved upon last year’s third quarter profit.

Freight volume in trucking’s spot market rose 10 percent in October, said TransCore, which reported the first year-over-year increase this year in the TransCore Freight Index.

The National Mediation Board proposed an amendment to its Railway Labor Act rules to provide that, in representation disputes, a majority of valid ballots cast will determine the craft or class repres

Con-way profit fell by two-thirds in the third quarter from $40.5 million a year ago to $13.5 million in the three months ending Sept. 30.

YRC Worldwide stock tanked on Wall Street this week as the company launched a debt-for-equity exchange one analyst compared to a “controlled bankruptcy.”

William J. Logue, a veteran FedEx Express executive, will become president of FedEx Freight, the express giant’s $4.6 billion trucking arm, Dec. 1.

The retail price of diesel rose seven-tenths of a cent last week, the fourth straight week of increases in the national average, according to the U.S.

YRC Worldwide will launch a debt-for-equity exchange offer this week that could wipe more than $500 million in debt from the financially-troubled trucker's books.

An Internal Revenue Service decision to reverse a previous assessment that FedEx had misclassified some package delivery drivers marks a strong victory for the carrier and its use of independent contr

DSV, Scandinavia’s biggest trucking and logistics company, reported a steep decline in third quarter earnings but said it gained market share in its key ocean, air and land transport sectors.

The board of YRC Worldwide named Chief Operating Officer Timothy A. Wicks president of the trucking giant last week, a vote of confidence in Wick's handling of the company's financial crisis.

Operating without its own equipment on the road appears to make C.H. Robinson Worldwide a tough target for the economic downturn.

Rules that govern how many hours a day truck drivers may spend behind the wheel may change again, perhaps before August 2011, as the federal agency that regulates motor carriers reconsiders whether tr

Stronger international lift and a pickup in next-day shipments took some of the sting out of the recession for UPS in the third quarter.

YRC Worldwide says it is gaining new customers even as it continues to lose some shippers, leading to "stabilization" of its customer base and improved yields, top company officials say.

YRC Worldwide’s regional carrier group reported a $293,000 profit, its first since the second quarter of 2008, largely driven by a turnaround at former USF regional carrier Holland, said YRC Wor

Trucking giant YRC Worldwide, fighting to stay out of bankruptcy, cut its net loss to $158.7 million in the third quarter but saw its volume and revenue fall sharply as shippers apparently moved busin

Heavy truck manufacturer Paccar eked out a $13 million third-quarter profit on $2 billion in combined truck and financial service revenue, but its net was down 96 percent from a year earlier and its t

Truckload carrier Covenant Transportation Group lost $13.6 million in the third quarter on freight revenue, excluding fuel surcharges, of $133.3 million.

Federal truck driver hours of service rules will be revised and a new rule proposed within nine months under an agreement between the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, the Teamsters union a

Scania, the Swedish truck maker, said the downturn in the European market has leveled off as it reported third quarter earnings plunged 85 percent from a year ago.

Retail diesel prices took a third consecutive leap this week just before oil prices dropped sharply with the rebound of the U.S. dollar.

An American Trucking Associations executive said New York and New Jersey politicians will regret endorsing Los Angeles-style clean-truck regulations that he said represent a thinly disguised effort to

UPS Freight improved transit times between western Canada and points across the United States.

The Port of Los Angeles’s task of defending its clean-trucks plan against a lawsuit by the American Trucking Associations got suddenly more difficult on Oct.

New Deal Logistics, which offers trucking and distribution services from New England to North Carolina, got its start serving the apparel business in New York’s midtown Garment District in the late 19

YRC Worldwide this week will release what could be the most significant quarterly earnings report in trucking this year, and analysts, customers and competitors — as well as tens of thousands of emplo

New Deal Logistics’ Joe Killeen knows retail delivery like he knows Manhattan, which is to say block by block.

The battle to organize harbor truck drivers at U.S.

A change in vacation policy allegedly helped less-than-truckload carrier Saia return to profitability in the third quarter.

The trucking industry is finding the road to recovery has its own potholes.

Nearly 80 bus and truck drivers and as many companies may face charges or fines for drug and alcohol violations after a Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration investigation.

Ryder System profit fell 66 percent in the third quarter as the company closed some logistics operations and carried less freight due to the global recession.

Truckload and intermodal operator USA Truck lost $1.6 million in the third quarter due to low volume and excess capacity in the freight market.

Sweden’s AB Volvo reported its fourth consecutive quarterly net loss but said demand for trucks stabilized in the past three months.

Trucker appointment systems at marine terminals can be beneficial for both parties if the systems are flexible and managed objectively, according to a transportation economist.

More federal funding and more “reasonable” regulation are needed to speed freight across the U.S.