LTL

From labor battles to natural disasters, 2012 was filled with risk for shippers and the companies moving and managing their cargo. Here are the stories that defined the year.

South Carolina-based less-than-truckload transportation company Southeastern Freight Lines today promoted Chris Reynolds from North Atlanta service center manager to director of safety and security.

Cudahy, Wis.-based logistics company Roadrunner Transportation Systems has announced that the underwriters for its recent public offering of common stock exercised in full their over-allotment option to purchase an additional...

Roadrunner Transportation Systems has acquired Direct Connection Transportation...

FedEx Freight increased its profit 90 percent from a year ago as less-than-truckload revenue and freight demand climbed in the three months that ended Nov. 30.

The Teamsters union says it is willing to discuss labor costs when contract talks with ABF Freight System begin Dec. 18 — but not just union labor costs.

Transportation and logistics service provider Roadrunner Transportation Systems today named John G. Kennedy to its board of directors, replacing Mark R. Holden.

A fatal accident serves as another reminder of the difficulty U.S. regulators face in keeping illicit carriers off the road.

Cookeville, Tenn.-based transportation and logistics company Averitt Express has shortened its less-than-truckload service times to eastern Canada, including Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and Quebec City.

Trucking company R+L Carriers is speeding shipments with a new bundle of expedited, mode-neutral services.

Roadrunner Transportation Systems is opening a new less-than-truckload outbound service center serving New England.

FedEx Freight is putting two liquefied natural gas (LNG)-powered heavy trucks through their paces in Texas, running them nearly 1,000 miles a day in line-haul service.

A long line of people thought last Friday would never come, the day when YRC Worldwide, the less-than-truckload operator that racked up billions of dollars in losses over the past five years, reported an actual quarterly net profit.

Roadrunner Transportation Systems increased its net profit 37.6 percent to $9.9 million while boosting revenue 23.4 percent to $279.2 million in the third quarter.

Transportation and supply chain firm Vitran today reported a net loss of $10.10 million in the third quarter.

Old Dominion Freight Line expanded key terminals in Tennessee and Indiana as the less-than-truckload carrier rolls out a $120 million network upgrade.

More goods packed into warehouses and sitting on store shelves meant not as much freight moving in trucks during the summer, a situation carriers and shippers hope is changing as the year-end holidays and trucking’s annual peak shipping season approach.

Standard & Poor’s revised its credit outlook for YRC Worldwide from “stable” to “developing” Oct. 17, citing better performance and liquidity at the $4.9 billion trucking operator.

A battle is brewing over the future of Vitran as a minority shareholder seeks to unseat the current board of the struggling less-than-truckload operator. Halifax, Nova Scotia-based investor George Armoyan, whose investment firm Clarke owns 6.2 percent of Vitran, wants the company to sell part of its operations.

ABF Freight System and the Teamsters union will open talks on a new multiyear labor contract Dec. 18

The less-than-truckload industry is moving faster, even as the economic engine slows, with the largest industry giants and regional players alike re-engineering networks to deliver freight more quickly for shippers and consignees.

Shortly after launching expedited service to the West Coast, Averitt is shortening less-than-truckload transit times in lanes between Atlanta and the Midwest.

Despite an overall drop in unemployment, trucking employment was basically flat in September, with only a slight gain in seasonally adjusted payroll head count.

Business conditions for trucking companies improved in August, and are likely to keep improving despite slow economic growth, according to transportation research firm FTR Associates.

Less-than-truckload carriers are raising rates 3 to 4 percent, before fuel surcharges, despite “negative economic signals,” according to Stifel Nicolaus.

Surface transportation trade between the U.S. and its North American Free Trade Agreement partners, Canada and Mexico, rose...

Truck tonnage rose 3.2 percent from a year ago in August but dropped 0.9 percent from July, according to the Americ

FedEx Express users of slower services will bear more of the brunt of the parcel carrier's price hike than shippers that use faster options, as the company works to slow shippers from shifting to chea

FedEx Freight increased revenue 5 percent from a year ago to $1.4 billion as shipments rose 4 percent in the fiscal quarter that ended Aug. 30.