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Class 8 truck orders rebounded in August, despite dire predictions for the U.S. economy, according to preliminary figures from two research groups.

The Cass Freight Index for U.S. shipments grew 4.4 percent in August over the same month a year ago, the smallest gain in a year-and-a-half and a sign of fragile demand in the American economy.

Distribution planners looking for the ideal location to build an inland port probably wouldn’t zero in on Minot, N.D., but that didn’t stop Greg Johnson, president of North Dakota Port Ser

The development of dedicated high-speed rail lines in China is translating not only into faster passenger service for billions of potential train riders, but also a greater emphasis on rail freight.

Ports around the United States are anxious to encourage greater use of intermodal rail for inbound shipments, but when does that encouragement amount to an illegal subsidy for rail transport?

With two major double-stack corridor projects under way, eastern rail giants Norfolk Southern Railway and CSX Transportation plan to offer shippers their most efficient intermodal networks since the r

The freight rail industry is fighting a regulation that allows the federal government to fine Class I carriers if Amtrak-provided data shows the railroads caused delays in passenger service.

The Department of Transportation is finally prepared to release $34 million in grant funds it announced last October, so that freight rail giants BNSF Railway and Union Pacific Railroad can proceed on

Short line and regional railroads saw total shipments rise 3.4 percent in the final week of August, with gains across various cargoes linked to industrial demand.

Major North American railroads saw their carloadings of automobiles and other large equipment rise 5.3 percent last week, to the strongest weekly vehicle shipments since early last spring.

Many trucks are still unable to make deliveries in New Jersey, Vermont and New York because numerous bridges and road remain washed out after Hurricane Irene battered the region last weekend.

APL Logistics said it is outperforming the U.S. intermodal market since its reentry into the business last year after a decade-long absence.

The dollar value of U.S. surface trade with Canada and Mexico rose 11 percent in June to $77.5 billion, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics said Tuesday.

CSX will spend $59 million to expand its intermodal terminal in Columbus, Ohio, leveraging its new terminal to the north and part of its $850 million initiative to better connect East Coast ports with

Major East Coast ports re-opened Monday and trucking and railroad companies slowly resumed services as they began making a full assessment of damage to transportation operations that took the impact o

APL Logistics is taking a “cautious” outlook for the rest of the year and into 2012, despite a strong first half-year performance and growth in emerging markets and automotive logistics.

BSNF Railway will reopen an important flooded out track segment across the Missouri River on Sept. 3, five days earlier than planned.

Customs and Border Protection on Friday started advance testing of the ocean and rail cargo manifest systems in the Automated Commercial Environment

The Broward County Board of County Commissioners on Aug.

Bulk carload traffic at major North American railroads rose 2.8 percent in week ending Aug. 20 from a week earlier, setting a new volume peak for 2011.

Major railroads in the U.S., Canada and Mexico picked up 1.3 percent more intermodal containers and trailers last week than the week previous, for their second-highest total of 2011.

The grain crop marketing year that ended July 31 was one of the strongest on record for Canadian National Railway’s export volume to the West Coast ports of Vancouver and Prince Rupert.

Four small railroads and seven Class I carriers received $7.7 million in security grants from the Department of Homeland, a $6.8 million decrease from the

Freight railroads will have to deploy expensive automation systems on far less track than earlier proposed under a new version of a positive train control requirement issued Tuesday by the Department

Amtrak and the Department of Transportation finalized agreements to spend $745 million to improve on-time passenger rail performance on the Northeast Corridor, a busy track zone often shared with frei

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States received another $208 million in stimulus from the Department of Transportation in the week ending Aug.

When Union Pacific Railroad’s intermodal volume slipped 1 percent in the second quarter, including a 2 percent drop in international containers, barely a ripple of concern or financial pain flut

With access to tens of thousands of motor carriers, Ryder System isn’t having difficulty finding truck capacity for shippers.

Railroad analysts who track North American rail freight data for clues about the direction of the economy are scratching their heads over the lack of clear trends in weekly traffic figures.

Union Pacific on Friday settled a long-standing argument with Customs and Border Protection over more than $500 million in fines for drug smuggling on its trains coming from Mexico by agreeing to spen

Short line railroads across North America saw shipments rise 3.8 percent in the second week of August from the first, another sign that basic freight demand continues to rise despite financial market

llinois is home to the largest number of railroad suppliers in the United States, according to data released by the Railway Supply Institute.

North American railroads were outpacing 2010 intermodal volume through mid-August, as increases in container loadings more than offset a slowdown in trailer hauls and boosted prospects for improved pe

Major freight railroads trimmed 424 jobs from mid-June to mid-July, the second overall cutback in the Class I workforce this year.

Swift Transportation, the largest U.S. truckload carrier, is expanding its container business with a cross-border intermodal service linking the U.S. and Mexico.

With a $150 million investment in Express-1 Expedited Solutions awaiting shareholder approval, “career CEO” Bradley S.

RailAmerica said 34 of its customers in the first half of the year announced plans to build, expand or reopen facilities, generating more than 25,000 annual carloads for the short line operator within

Canada National and Canadian Pacific railways’ new and expanded transload centers for stuffing lumber, logs and other products into containers bound for Asia will help the ports at Vancouver and

The Department of Transportation’s payments to states for finished stimulus projects reached $30.4 billion as of Aug.