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Truckload shipping volumes increased 2 to 3 percent in June from the previous month, with rates rising 4 to 5 percent, according to Longbow Research.

YRC Worldwide expects to draw $255 million from its new $400 million asset-based loan to help repay its existing asset-based loan and set up an escrow account.

The Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce index pulled out of its two-month slide with a 1 percent increase in June, though it remains lower than it was in March.

A major natural gas company is investing $150 million in a venture that would build 150 liquid natural gas fueling stations for heavy trucks at truck stops nationwide.

Trucking giant YRC Worldwide secured a $400 million asset-based loan facility from its lenders, a key step toward completing its

YRC Worldwide is one step away from completing its financial restructuring by a July 22 deadline, a key official at th

YRC Worldwide named financial executive Christopher C. Wren senior vice president and treasurer of the $4.3 billion trucking enterprise.

The for-hire trucking industry is adding workers to company payrolls while the national unemployment rate continues to rise.

Freight brokers increased their revenue 17.1 percent in the first quarter from the same period a year ago as the third-party logistics companies expanded fastest in business beyond their cor

ABF Freight System won an important victory in its challenge to wage and benefits concessions the Teamsters union granted YRC Worldwide and its subsidiaries.

Trucking company ABF Freight System will raise general less-than-truckload rates 6.9 percent July 25, the company said Wednesday.

UPS Freight’s Aug. 1 rate hike is likely to set off a round of early general rate increases in the less-than-truckload market, key financial analysts said.

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UPS Freight will take a 6.9 percent general rate hike Aug. 1, a move that could signal a stronger across-the-board increases in less-than-truckload pricing.

Baird Equity Research is dropping its coverage of YRC Worldwide, as the trucking giant heads toward a financia

YRC Worldwide’s stock took a wild ride on Wall Street this week, almost tripling in value on Monday on sudden and unexplained trading before apparent short-selling sent shares falling back more

Smaller shippers plan to increase transportation spending this year despite economic uncertainty, according to a customer survey conducted by Saia.

The decline in truck tonnage accelerated in May, as the seasonally adjusted for-hire truck tonnage index dropped 2.3 percent

Federal truck safety penalties against motor carriers jumped 23 percent in 2010, according to data from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

No one, it seems, is happy with less-than-truckload pricing.

The Los Angeles-Long Beach clean-trucks programs are nearing the end of their first phase, and despite many controversies, the initiatives exceeded all expectations and have set new standards for redu

The American Trucking Associations hailed the release of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve but urged the White House to expand offshore drilling.

FedEx Freight returned to profitability in its last quarter after completing the merger of its long-haul and regional less-than-truckload operations.

FedEx increased revenue 12 percent in the quarter and 13 percent in the fiscal year that ended May 31, reporting total annual revenue of $39.3 billion.

Logistics and supply chain management solutions company Ryder Systems received three anti-terrorism certifications this week for its logistics operations in the Asia and trans-Pacific regions.

A new cross-border trucking program with Mexico could be in place within two months, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administrator Anne S. Ferro said.

CEVA Logistics will lease more than 1,000 trailers from Ryder System, bringing its total U.S. trailer capacity to more than 4,700 units, the company said Monday.

Roadrunner Transportation Systems is running down more than one road.

Less-than-truckload carriers are broadly dissatisfied with LTL pricing models, but not at all optimistic about changing to a new method for matching prices to freight.

A private investment group is spending $150 million to take over ownership of freight broker Express-1 Expedited Solutions and installing lead investor Bradley S. Jacobs as the chairman and CEO.

UPS Freight is cutting transit times between Western Canada and U.S. markets by at least one day, speeding cross-border shipments from Vancouver.

After acquiring the regional trucking operator USF for $1.37 billion in May 2005, YRC Worldwide Chairman, President and CEO William D.

Logistics technology provider Descartes Systems Group is acquiring software specialist Telargo to add new mobile information capabilities to trucking operations systems.

A little acquisition by a very big company sent a jolt through the U.S. trucking industry on June 1.

Now that negotiations with the Teamsters union, lenders and others with a financial stake in the company are largely completed, YRC Worldwide’s most crucial negotiations may be with its shippers

Shippers expect truckload capacity to keep tightening over the next year, but believe the less-than-truckload market will be more stable, according to a recent survey.

A recent survey of shippers had some good news for YRC Worldwide: Only 6 percent of those surveyed plan to reduce freight shipped with the trucking giant as it restructures to avoid bankruptcy, and 17

The National Industrial Transportation League is urging the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration not to change the truck driver hours-of-service rules.

The Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index extended its slide in May, falling 0.9 percent following April's 0.5 percent decline and an “exceptional”

Following an acquisition and East Coast expansion, trucking company Roadrunner Transportation Systems is reorganizing its management team.