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Famous Footwear and other specialty retailers are turning to pool distribution to get more precise control over inventory and fulfillment.

Next-day shipping isn't just for online retailers. The parts division of $19 billion heavy truck maker PACCAR designed its latest distribution center to speed delivery of aftermarket components to customers.

Companies such as Old Dominion Freight Line, Estes Express Line, and Saia are adding terminals and doors. Can they add more freight and market share?

The Trump administration’s plan for a broad-based regulatory rollback could shorten the duration of any future truck capacity shortfall.

US shippers surveyed by the JOC, NASSTRAC, and Truckstop.com expect slightly higher freight volumes over the next six months, but mostly flat rates — except truckload rates.

Lower fuel surcharges, lighter shipments, acquisitions costs blamed for lower profit at less-than-truckload, logistics company.

Trucking is doing better at hiring workers than previous employment data suggested, but still is bumping against a "hiring ceiling."

Roadrunner’s push into the expedited shipping market over the last two years provided the trucking company an airbag to protect against crashing truckload and less-than-truckload volumes and rates in the third quarter.

The ELD mandate's impact on available truck capacity isn't the only thing shippers should worry about.

Despite a "soft industrial backdrop" and lower fuel surcharges and revenue, less-than-truckload carrier YRC Freight raised profits nearly 25 percent year-over-year in the third quarter and opened a new terminal.

As e-commerce volumes rise, UPS is adding more capacity.

Rapid changes in technology are reshaping the logistics landscape and spurring the growth of freight management services, including the formation of nearly $1 billion firm Sunteck/TTS Holdings.

Cranking up profits and gaining freight, the multiregional less-than-truckload carrier looks to fill one of the last large gaps in its coverage.

Plunging truckload rates proved a dead weight on profits at C.H. Robinson Worldwide in the third quarter.

Old Dominion Freight Lines avoided damage and used technology and phones to keep close contact with customers as storm and flooding pummeled its home state.

Russian shippers and transportation companies say they will have to increase their rates double digits to keep up with the cost increases created by Russia’s “Platon” truck toll.

US regulators are increasing funding for driver-training schools and institutions serving veterans while pushing a pilot program that would license under-21 ex-military drivers.

US shippers may be concerned about trucking rate hikes in 2017 and 2018, but pricing power isn't likely to slip away from them soon.

The Teamsters' long-haul campaign to organize XPO Logistics, as well as FedEx Freight, unfolds terminal by terminal, court decision by court decision.

US regulators simplify the process getting training, a license, and a job in trucking for veterans and active duty military personnel.

After two months of job creation, trucking employment numbers dropped in September, another indication of slow freight demand and excess truckload capacity.

The American Trucking Associations has spurned a proposal it lobbied hard to get: a mandate that trucks be fitted with speed limiters.

XPO Logistics will spend $425 million this year on technology to get the most out of diverse international operations and optimize customer supply chains, says CEO Bradley S. Jacobs.

Trucking operators are slashing truck orders.

The new head of the American Trucking Associations says autonomous vehicles will benefit truck drivers, not replace them.

Truckload shippers will enjoy continued pricing power, Chainalytics' Matt Harding says. For LTL shippers, however, the outlook is costlier.

E-commerce and the need for density in trade lanes is pushing expansion of the global network of C.H. Robinson Worldwide, the largest US logistics operator.

Web-based technology that will help shippers get a clearer view of freight as it moves through less-than-truckload pipelines is being added to the SMC3 Platform.

TNT's European road network, and its ability to handle profitable palletized freight, will be important to FedEx as it integrates global express operations.

FedEx raised revenue, profit in its first quarter as owner of TNT Express, despite integration costs following acquisition.

Seasonal adjustments may account, in part, for an unusually strong gain in truck tonnage in "difficult-to-read" August.

A Transplace survey of 2,000 carriers shows smaller fleets lagging their larger counterparts when it comes to adopting electronic logging, though about half the companies queried already had ELDs in place.

Many of the largest less-than-truckload carriers are seeking increases in non-contract rates despite the weak freight market.

Acquisition of LDS gives ArcBest subsidiary ABF Logistics a route into fast-growing dedicated market.

Old Dominion Freight Line experienced shipments and tonnage decline year-over-year in August. A contraction in US manufacturing output may be partly to blame.

US trucking companies kept their hiring engines firing in August.

With freight volumes and rates down, truckload drivers stuck closer to their employers, American Trucking Associations data show.

A U.S. federal mandate requiring truck drivers to use electronic logging devices by the end of next year won’t necessarily be the harbinger of a long-anticipated “capacity crunch.”

Trucking companies and freight shippers shouldn't expect a "rally" or "retreat" but a very slow rebound.

Trucking companies of all types are being driven to take new and sometimes rough routes, as the growth of e-commerce, shifting consumer spending patterns, new regulations and technology create new challenges.