Trucking News

The CEO of one of the largest U.S. transportation companies opposes replacing the gas tax with a vehicle mileage tax, claiming it would be unfair to many motorists.

P.A.M. Transportation Services faced a drop in the value of its stock in the fourth quarter by writing down goodwill.

Wal-Mart is revamping the hiring practices in its logistics division as part of a $17 million settlement of a racial discrimination class-action lawsuit.

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The retail price of diesel fell 5.6 cents last week to a national average of $2.13 per gallon, accor

Old Dominion Freight Line relocated and expanded its Cookeville, Tenn., LTL terminal in an effort to gain market share.

Marine terminals in Los Angeles-Long Beach on Thursday continued to turn away trucks that did not me

A shipper-backed proposal to increase truck productivity by lifting federal weight restrictions was opposed by railroad interests at a recent National Association of Manufacturers meeting in Washingto

LONG BEACH, Calif. -- The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach Wednesday ushered in a new era of harbor trucking as they began to collect clean-truck fees from importers and exporters.

Fatality rates in accidents involving trucks declined 5.8 percent in 2007 in part as a result of new

WASHINGTON -- Barring any further steps by the Federal Maritime Commission, the ports of Los Angeles

YRC Worldwide's bankers gave the carrier some financial breathing room with a modified credit agreem

The national average price for diesel last week dropped 3.3 cents to $2.186 per gallon, according to

Trucking and logistics company National Retail Systems will be plying the ports of Los Angeles and L

As Southern California gets ready to charge $70 per container for trucks entering its ports to defra

Copyright 2009, Traffic World, Inc.The downward spiral of job cuts continued among the count

Copyright 2009, Traffic World, Inc.Old Dominion Freight Line is increasing base rates an ave

Copyright 2009, Traffic World, Inc.Preliminary data from transportation forecasting firm FTR

Copyright 2009, Traffic World, Inc.UPS Freight is speeding delivery times on 2,250 lanes in

Velocity Express received a de-listing letter from the listing qualifications staff of The NASDAQ St

Positive cash flow helped Quality Distribution overcome recurrent losses to end 2008 with a net inco

Amid gloomy prospects for the next three to six months, less-than-truckload carriers are scraping a

Standard & Poor's lowered its long-term corporate credit ratings on the holding company for Swif

Vitran lost $3.2 million in the fourth quarter as integration and operating costs mounted and shipme

Copyright 2009, Traffic World, Inc.As LTL shippers take advantage of the best leverage over

UPS Freight is speeding delivery times on 2,250 lanes in Texas and southern Oklahoma as part of a lo

The largest big-shipment trucking company in the world is in a race against the calendar to avoid go

Copyright 2009, Traffic World, Inc.J.B. Hunt Transport Services posted net income of $53.3 m

The board of directors of J.B. Hunt Transport Services elected telecommunications industry executive

Copyright 2009, Traffic World, Inc.Averitt Express took a pass on raising general base rates

Copyright 2009, Traffic World, Inc.Truckload carrier USA Truck eked out a $600,000 profit in

Averitt Express opened four service centers in Texas, expanding the number of facilities in the stat

Volvo lost $165 million in the fourth quarter as worldwide sales dropped 9 percent to $9.65 billion.

Truck fuel kept falling last week as crude oil stayed in the $40 per barrel range. The average cost

FedEx Freight laid off 900 employees on Feb. 6 as the weak economy took another swipe at the nation'

Copyright 2009, Traffic World, Inc.Knight Transportation''s net income increased 16.8 percen

Old Dominion Freight Line will increase its base rates effective Feb. 16. "The general incre

A British electric truck maker is plugging into the U.S. market, with plans to build and sell a line

Total net orders for class 8 vehicles from all heavy truck manufacturers in North America dropped 12

Patriot Transportation Holding improved net income 24 percent in its first fiscal quarter, which end