LTL

Matson has closed on its acquisition of Alaska logistics provider Span Alaska.

With cost controls, disciplined pricing and a sharp eye on volume margins, XPO Logistics positions LTL for more profitable growth.

Small carriers may have gained more revenue than their larger counterparts last year, reversing a recent trend. Can they do it again in 2016?

XPO's North American LTL operations, the former Con-way, led the company's drive to its first quarterly net profit.

Dicom looks to integrate cross-border trucking, parcel business with last-mile service as e-commerce grows.

Despite lower volumes, many LTL carriers say they are still winning contractual rate increases.

Strong hiring may have led to a new peak in trucking's hiring cycle. Is it downhill from here?

The acquisition of Command Transportation last year is helping Echo Global Logistics gain truckload brokerage market share.

The slight year-over-year drop in quarterly revenue was the first for ODFL since 2009.

TransForce's package division increased sales 6 percent, but its trucking business struggled in the second quarter.

Span Alaska gives Matson Logistics greater reach into The Frontier State, and door-to-door service capabilities increasingly needed to compete.

Tonnage drops in June despite other improving indicators for trucking.

The EU has fined four of Europe’s largest truck manufacturers a record 2.93 billion euros ($3.3 billion).

Established logistics companies and brokers could partner with digital start-ups to speed the "evolution" of technology demanded by shippers, the CEO of Echo Global Logistics says.

As freight demand lags, trucking's payroll drops from post-recession peak.

The soft U.S. freight economy has trucking companies slamming on the capacity brakes.

It's a hard economy for smaller U.S. trucking companies such as Nebraska Transport Company. The carrier believes technology, partnerships can help it not just survive, but thrive.

Frustrated by a slow-growth economy, low freight demand and tighter regulatory controls, trucking providers are looking for new opportunities, often in last-mile logistics.

Amazon now may be the world's largest 3PL, especially for small shippers, supply chain consultant Adrian Gonzalez tells SMC3 Connections 2016.

"Hauliers and shippers run the risk of being punished for infringement of rules they could not properly prepare for,” the European Shippers' Council said.

Shipment volumes climbed in May, but not enough to pull transport providers out of a deep year-over-year hole.

U.S. regulators are taking further steps toward a rulemaking on the detention of truck drivers by shippers and their customers.

Trucking firms in Russia are consolidating and expanding their services in a bid to remain competitive with containerized rail transportation.

An online marketplace for dynamic less-than-truckload spot rates is expanding rapidly as technology helps shippers, carriers meet goals.

Canadian freight operator Manitoulin Global Forwarding added temperature-controlled trucking to its portfolio.

At the U.S.-Canadian border, rising truck volumes are a welcome sign of economic improvement. But an 8 percent increase in truck crossings in Detroit in the first quarter also raises concerns about the speed and fluidity of cross-border freight traffic.

Less-than-truckload shipments only inched upward in May.

Schneider acquires two companies.

A surge in auto exports, as well as other goods, helped lift trucking activity at the three largest U.S.-Canada border crossings.

By many accounts, the U.S. is in a freight recession. So why are regional less-than-truckload carriers building terminals, expanding into new territories and adding customers?

Freight costing "is a huge challenge," Estes Express Lines' chief operating officer told a technology conference.

Estes Express will roll out Estes Final Mile by the end of 2016, as e-commerce grows and traditional freight markets stagnate.

Trucking, shipping interests attack use of data they call flawed in proposed motor carrier ratings.

Despite "positive" economic indicators, freight volumes seem stuck at a "standstill."

Old Dominion Freight Line is filling in gaps in its terminal network and building freight density.

Truck capacity is overwhelmingly concentrated among small and midsize carriers.

Northeast regional LTL carrier A. Duie Pyle is blending warehousing, distribution and dedicated trucking to attract shippers.

Facing a soft LTL market, Roadrunner takes steps to build out its U.S. network and attract freight from western Canada.

Trucking hiring is bumping against a post-recession ceiling as unemployment drops, construction wages rise.

A slower economy has not necessarily driven less-than-truckload carriers off the road.