Trucking News

The agency that regulates trucking safety plans to offer carriers access to an electronic database of drivers’ inspection and accident records starting in December.

The top Republican on the Senate’s Transportation and Infrastructure subcommittee predicted that truckers, manufacturers and other key industry groups will push for a higher federal motor fuels

Truckload demand is improving across parts of the United States, helping turn around a decline in pricing and raise prospects for higher rates in coming months, an investment analyst said in a report

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YRC Worldwide realigned its senior management for the second time this year, naming Tim Wicks chief operating officer Oct. 5 and promoting or reassigning other key executives.

The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association supports a ban on cell-phone texting while driving, but wants better enforcement of existing laws on inattentive or negligent driving by all motorist

The average retail price of diesel slid 1.9 cents last week to $2.582 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Challenger Motor Freight, one of the largest truckload carriers in Canada, acquired the special commodities business of Sandrock Specialized Carriers, a Heidelberg, Ontario-based company specializing

The state of the economy and government regulation top a list of trucking industry concerns released by the American Transportation Research Institute.

Refrigerated trucking company FFE Transportation Services signed a four-year contract valued at more than $3 million for fleetwide deployment of ReeferTrak, a monitoring and management service provide

As Congress considers two bills related to highway safety, shippers are urging lawmakers to pass the one that allows heavier trucks for what they say will be safer, greener, more efficient shipping.

With an Oct. 13 liquidity deadline approaching, YRC Worldwide is cutting deeper into its work force and seeking new leeway from lenders.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is coming under as much fire in the Senate as the woman nominated as the next FMCSA administrator.

Struggling with years of financial losses and shipper defections, same-day delivery company Velocity Express is operating under bankruptcy protection while it restructures and hands most of its stock

Orders for new heavy duty trucks jumped in September in the first expansion in more than a year, according to a preliminary report from FTR Associates.

Freight-related transportation jobs fell moderately in September, the Labor Department reported, but falling employment levels in key customer groups could signal more trouble ahead for the shipping s

Echo Global Logistics, which has grown into a $200 million company in less than five years, launched an initial public offering Friday expected to bring nearly $80 million to the third-party logistics

After an absence of almost a century, electric trucks are poised to make a comeback on city streets in the U.S.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on Wednesday kicked off a two-day Distracted Driving Summit in Washington, D.C.

Surface trade with Canada and Mexico sank 28 percent in July compared with a year earlier, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics of the U.S. Department of Transportation reported Sept. 30.

As crude oil futures took a steep dive last week, the price of diesel responded quickly, falling 2.1 cents to $2.601 per gallon on average, according to the U.S.

YRC Worldwide is continuing an executive restructuring alongside “workforce adjustments” as it attempts to stave off bankruptcy and return to profitability.

A coalition of shipper and carrier groups, heating up the war of words over the Port of Los Angeles clean-trucks plan, issued a point-by-point rebuttal to claims environmental groups are making as the

Trucking giant YRC Worldwide is cutting deeper into its workforce and winning new leeway from lenders as it strives to avoid bankruptcy.

Coming up short isn’t a bad thing for a truckload carrier, if you’re talking length of haul.

Douglas G. Duncan, the trucking veteran who became president and CEO of FedEx Freight when the company was created in 2001, will step down Feb. 28, 2010. FedEx did not name a replacement.

Washington supporters of trucking and shipper interests are girding themselves for a stealth attack from adversaries that want to push legislation through Congress that gives port authorities the righ

Truck tonnage climbed for the second month in a row in August, boosting the American Trucking Associations’ advance seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index another 2.1 percent over a si

A Los Angeles Superior Court decision this week confirmed that motor carriers are correct in classifying harbor truck drivers as independent contractors rather than direct employees.

Same-day package company Velocity Express filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from its creditors today, announcing plans to restructure under a new owner, ComVest, in a debt-for-equity swap.

A three-month extension of current federal highway spending programs cleared the House of Representatives Sept.

The House of Representatives broke into a sharp fight over extending federal highway program spending by three months, as Republican leaders tried to force backers to pledge they would take a motor fu

The chairman of a key Senate subcommittee today told trucking industry official Anne S.

Estes Express Lines is picking up the pace of competition by slicing a day from transit times for freight moving from 26 terminals in its less-than-truckload network.

The New York Times joined labor and highway safety interests opposed to the nomination of state trucking association leader Anne S.

Kenny Nova joined Aljex Software as vice president, corporate development.

Douglas G. Duncan, the executive who has led FedEx Freight from its inception, will retire next February, the company announced.

Retail diesel was selling for an average of $2.622 per gallon across the country last week, down 1.2 cents according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

In its race to avoid bankruptcy, YRC Worldwide is jumping hurdles like a horse running a steeplechase.

Truckload carrier Schneider National will close two fuel, maintenance and operations facilities in Seville, Ohio and Green Bay, Wis. on Nov. 17.