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Vitran’s losses deepened to $3.4 million in the third quarter, compared with a $2.3 million net loss in the second quarter and a $1.9 million net profit a year ago.

Multiregional less-than-truckload carrier Saia nearly doubled its net profit year-over-year in the third quarter as revenue rose 14 pe

Arkansas Best swung to a $12.3 million net profit in the third quarter from a loss a year ago despite lower freight volume at the less-than-truckload subsidiary, ABF Freight System.

Struggling trucking giant YRC Worldwide may stay on the Nasdaq stock exchange despite the low value of its stock, a Nasdaq hearings panel decided this week.

Old Dominion Freight Line’s third-quarter revenue reached nearly half a billion dollars, a record for the sixth-largest U.S.

Less-than-truckload carrier YRC, moving to overhaul its operations after a change in leadership, is consolidating geographic regions and streamlining its management under new president

Increases in truck and intermodal volume and pricing pushed C.H.

What’s keeping trucking executives awake at night as 2012 approaches? If it’s not the threat of a double-dip recession, it’s drivers, drivers and drivers.

The unsteady state of the economy and proposed changes to truck driver hours of service rules top a list of critica

FedEx Ground opened a $100 million sorting and distribution hub in North Carolina Wednesday that will speed package deliveries in the Southeast.

The Dependable Companies is turning to a dependable source of energy to power its headquarters — the sun.

Shippers need to do more to help trucking companies reduce rising driver turnover rates and help keep transportation costs in line, a transportation consultant says.

Truckload giant Schneider National is leveraging its intermodal capabilities and relationship with Canadian National to speed freight between the U.S. and Canada.

YRC Worldwide is moving toward a reverse stock split to boost the per share value of its common stock and avoid being kicked off the Nasdaq exchange.

Weber Logistics has a new contract with German candy maker Storck to distribute more than a million cases of such popular brands as Riesen, Werthers, Mamba, Merci and Toffifay to its customers and con

In some ways, Con-way Freight, with $3.1 billion in revenue last year, fared better over the past two years than its largest competitors, YRC and FedEx Freight.

YRC Worldwide hopes to emulate the recent success of its regional carrier Holland on a broader scale by naming Jeff Rogers president of national carrier YRC.

Two years ago, the nation’s largest trucking companies were locked in a no-discount-barred price war that slashed less-than-truckload rates across the industry and cut into the bottom lines at F

New Con-way Freight President W. Gregory Lehmkuhl chose Thomas W. Clark, a 26-year Con-way veteran, as his executive vice president of operations.

FedEx Freight expanded its service center in Butte, Mont., to a 65-door facility to make it a less-than-truckload hub in the Northwest.

Less-than-truckload freight demand remains healthy despite fears of a return to economic recession, the head of Old Domi

The FedEx trucking division, and the largest U.S. less-than-truckload carrier, reported a $42 million operating profit in the fiscal quarter ending Aug.

Shippers looking to lock down capacity are turning not just to carriers, but to each other, and logistics providers are bringing the assets they need to the dock.

The month-to-month decline in for-hire truck tonnage slowed in August, and tonnage levels rose more strongly from a year ago compared with July.

YRC Worldwide named Jeff Rogers president of long-haul less-than-truckload carrier YRC and Mike Naatz president of regional LTL subsidiary Holland.

YRC Worldwide’s new CEO James L. Welch eliminated two executive positions at the trucking giant as he reorganizes its management team and functions.

Con-way named W. Gregory Lehmkuhl president of less-than-truckload carrier Con-way Freight, replacing John Labrie, who left the company in August 2010.

Strong performances by its package delivery and industrial trucking divisions gave FedEx lift lacking i

FedEx’s net profit rose 22 percent to $464 million in its June-August quarter, but the world’s largest air cargo carrier lowered its earnings expectations for the rest of the year, citing

Wesley B. Kemp, the president and CEO of ABF Freight System, will retire Dec. 31 after more than 40 years with the less-than-truckload carrier, the company said Wednesday.

Schneider Logistics is offering shippers an integrated delivery service that it says can cut transportation costs for certain types of freight 7 to 20 percent.

Old Dominion Freight Line extended its $120 million expansion this year into Pennsylvania, opening a terminal in Altoona and hiring 14 employees.

Trucking and logistics company Cargo Transportation Services emerged from bankruptcy last week after reorganizing and attracting a new equity partner.

YRC Worldwide’s stock plunged 77 percent Friday to 7 cents a share — its lowest price ever — after shareholders approved the trucking giant’s restructuring.

YRC Worldwide shareholders overwhelmingly approved the last step in the trucking giant’s financial restructuring plan Friday, voting in favor of an internal merger that launches a massive releas

Trucking giant YRC Worldwide disputed claims that members of its new board of directors will be paid more than members of its last board.

UPS will increase revenue 6 to 8 percent annually through 2016 and raise earnings 10 to 15 percent during that period, company executives said Thursday.

A Teamster candidate challenging James P. Hoffa took a swing at YRC Worldwide’s board of directors this week, attacking increases in cash retainers for directors.

Trucking company ABF Freight System opened offices in 12 additional Asian nations, expanding its overseas reach from Japan to India.