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Converging consumer and business technologies are changing the way motor carriers connect with truck drivers and customers at an increasingly rapid pace.

Trucking giant YRC Freight is hiring 200 truck drivers in more than 10 cities across the U.S. as less-than-truckload freight demand increases at the struggling carrier.

Diesel prices across the U.S. dropped nearly below the $4 per gallon mark, dropping roughly half a cents in the week ending May 15 as oil prices hit a new 2012 low.

Shippers can expect more upward pressure on truck pricing through the fall as available capacity t

When trucking companies are stung by rising costs, third-party logistics providers share their pain, very quickly.

Shippers that don’t monitor trucking costs carefully could see truck pricing skyrocket by 2014, Mike Regan, president of TranzAct Technologies, said Tuesday.

Trucking executives sounded a clear warning about rising costs Tuesday at the National Industrial Transportation League's Freight Policy Forum in Washington, D.C.

Diesel prices across the U.S. fell to their lowest point in 10 weeks, slipping 1.6 cents in the week ending May 7 as oil prices dropped to the lowest point since February.

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Jack Holmes, president of one of the largest trucking companies operating on U.S. highways, keeps an eye on the sea, where container shipping lines are struggling to stay afloat financially.

Troubled trucking giant YRC Worldwide narrowed its first quarter operating loss from a year ago while expanding revenue on an year-over-year increase in tonnage.

Roadrunner Transportation Systems increased its profit 70.5 percent in the first quarter to $7.9 million as revenue rose 38.2 percent to $236.6 million.

Trucking company Pitt Ohio expanded its expedited less-than-truckload service for national and global shippers.

Trucking and logistics giant Con-way more than tripled its net profit in the first quarter, increasing earnings to $25.6 million as revenue ro

Less-than-truckload motor carriers that survived the recession are struggling with challenges, including modal shift and rising costs, that are transforming their industry, a quartet of trucking CEOs

Diesel prices across the U.S. fell for the third week in a row, dropping 1.2 cents in the week ending April 30 as oil prices rose slightly above $4 a barrel.

Challenges facing shippers and motor carriers in an uncertain economy and on Capitol Hill will top the agenda Monday at the <

A drop in daily tonnage after price hikes in 2011 and "unusual" workers compensation costs contributed to

One could be forgiven for thinking the House&rsquo;s most recent extension to the surface transportation bill was about the controversial Keystone XL pipeline, rather than highway spending.

The economic recovery, tenuous on Main Street and shaky on Wall Street, is surprisingly strong on the open road, where trucking companies are accelerating faster than the general economy and generatin

Record revenue growth of 17.6 percent pushed Old Dominion Freight Line profit up 44.1 percent year-over-year in the first quarter to $31.1 million.

Package delivery giant UPS reported a 4.3 percent increase in first quarter revenue to $13.1 billion from $12.6 billion a year earlier.

Vitran's losses deepened in the first quarter to $5.8 million as the Canadian-based company struggled to improve its U.S. less-than-truckload operations.

Canadian trucking giant TransForce acquired certain assets of Peak USA Energy Services, an oilfield trucking business in Texas, for approximately $10 million.

Truck freight increased in March, but at a slower pace, as the American Trucking Associations For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index rose 0.2 percent from February.

Diesel prices across the U.S. fell the most since mid-December, dropping 4.2 cents in the week ending April 23 as oil prices fell more than $1 a barrel.

The number of drivers employed handling big rigs in the U.S.

Ask a trucking CEO why it&rsquo;s so hard to hire drivers, and extended unemployment benefits will likely be the first thing past his lips.

When the end came for J&A Transportation, the only surprise was how long it took.

Netherlands-based logistics provider CEVA is extending its Asian cross-border road freight services to include less-than-truckload services.

All it took was the March 25 shutdown of a single North Sea oil platform to boost Brent crude oil prices $1 a barrel.

Booming natural gas production isn&rsquo;t just giving the truck industry extra loads to haul.

YRC Freight streamlined its nationwide network last week, implementing changes to reduce freight handling and focus the $3.2 billion less-than-truckload carrier squarely on two- to five-day long-haul

Trucking companies hauling less-than-truckload freight should be able to hold onto the pricing power they&rsquo;ve gained over shippers through 2014 at least, increasing rates and yields in 2012 and 2

For the third time in as many months, federal regulators shut down an unsafe trucking company, ordering J&A Transportation out of service on April 9.

YRC Freight implemented two changes of operations over the April 7 weekend, reconfiguring its terminal network to speed freight and reduce handling.

Journal of Commerce Senior Editor William B. Cassidy interviewed the presidents of YRC Worldwide&rsquo;s four less-than-truckload operating companies Feb.

YRC Worldwide received &ldquo;multiple bids&rdquo; for more than 60 facilities put up for sale via a sealed-bid auction and is analyzing those offers, a company spokesperson said.

Delivering an annual profit this May is the top priority for FedEx Freight, which lost money in its fiscal third quarter ending Feb. 29, its first quarterly loss in a year.

Truckload carriers are becoming more willing to at least consider adding capacity as freight demand increases, according to a survey by Transport Capital Partners.