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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.

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.

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

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.

A key indicator of trucking activity rose 0.5 percent in February from January, signaling truck freight volumes are rising after a post-holiday decline.

When a news headline last week declared YRC Worldwide was &ldquo;back at (the) brink&rdquo; of the default and bankruptcy filing it narrowly avoided in late 2009, nerves quickly frayed at the long-tro

When he arrived in Overland Park, Kan., last July, James Welch began his plan to restart YRC Worldwide by cleaning house at the holding company, starting at the top.

Journal of Commerce Senior Editor William B. Cassidy interviewed YRC Worldwide CEO James P.

FedEx Corp.&rsquo;s profit more than doubled during its fiscal third quarter, fueled by record holiday package shipping,

Democratic Senate leaders, along with Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, urged House Republicans to adopt their two-year transport bill instead of endangering thousands of jobs by push

House Republicans are considering a short-term extension of the surface transportation bill instead of adopting the Senate&rsquo;s two-year plan.

Diesel prices across the U.S. hit the highest point since August 2008, rising 1.9 cents in the week ending March 19 as oil prices rose to more than $107 per barrel.

YRC Worldwide Chief Accounting Officer Paul F.

A new Department of Transportation report detailing the need to spend $101 billion annually, plus inflation, over the next 20 years to maintain the U.S.

The less-than-truckload industry accelerated in 2011, shedding any remnants of lethargy as shipping demand increased and excess LTL capacity dwindled.