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Truck freight volume rose for the second straight month in October, pushing for-hire truck tonnage up 6.1 percent year-to-date compared with the first 10 months of 2009.

After watching freight volumes moderate or slip in the late summer and early fall, some trucking companies are enjoying a late peak shipping season.

YRC plans to close 31 terminals in the Midwest, South and East, ratcheting back its total terminal network to about 320 facilities.

UPS Freight is speeding its cross-border service to Western Canada, extending its two-day and three-day delivery network to the energy-rich region.

Three YRC Worldwide subsidiaries asked a federal court to toss out ABF Freight System's lawsuit challenging their latest pact with the Teamsters union.

Pitt Ohio Express is changing its name and its brand to reflect a broader business that goes "beyond the road" and the company's less-than-truckload roots.

Less-than-truckload carriers are turning away unprofitable freight and refining networks to lower costs and gain efficiency, but shippers have largely held off the kind of price hikes those carriers s

Truckload demand increased and capacity tightened in the first week of November following three straight weeks of decline, according to Longbow Research.

The Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index fell 0.6 percent in October, pointing to a drop in trucking activity in what's typically a strong month for truck traffic.

Old Dominion Freight Line will raise its base rates about 4.9 percent Nov. 15, joining several less-than-truckload carriers pursuing early general rate increases.

Southeastern short-haul carrier Brown Trucking acquired West Brothers' Companies, expanding its capacity and adding new lines of business.

The labor concessions approved by 62 percent of YRC Teamsters employees eliminate fears of an imminent shutdown at the nation’s largest trucking operator, both at its nationwide less-than-truckl

Which carriers won last year’s less-than-truckload price war? Based on the financial results across the industry, it was those who refused to fight.

Winning a third round of concessions from its Teamsters employees gave YRC Worldwide its best shot yet at survival, extending until 2015 wage and benefit cuts it won last year and sharply reducing its

The long reorganization of long-haul less-than-truckload carrier YRC is still a work in progress, as the company looks to consolidate by shedding 50 terminals.

YRC Worldwide reported a $62 million third-quarter net loss as revenue dropped 5.7 percent from a year ago at the nation's largest less-than-truckload operator.

Net income and revenue leaped in the third quarter at non-asset-based trucker Roadrunner Transportation Systems, with sales up 31.3 percent from a year ago.

Arkansas Best narrowed its losses to $300,000 in the third quarter, with a $2.6 million operating loss at its less-than-truckload carrier ABF Freight System.

Higher costs helped push trucking and logistics giant Con-way back into the red in the third quarter, as a second-quarter surge in truck demand faded.

ABF Freight System is suing the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and three YRC Worldwide subsidiaries over the latest round of labor concessions at YRC.

Truckload operator USA Truck reported a profit for the second straight quarter, though its net income slipped by a third from the second quarter to $586,000.

Teamster employees at YRC Worldwide approved extended wage, benefit and pension cuts to give the financially troubled trucking giant another shot at survival.

When the Great Recession began, UPS Freight President Jack Holmes sought advice from J.

A high volume of ballots is likely to extend vote counting in a Teamsters election crucial to the survival of trucking giant YRC Worldwide into the weekend.

Commercial truck trailer orders nearly tripled from a year ago in September and rose 19 percent from order levels in August, according to ACT Research.

Southeastern trucker Saia increased its revenue 6 percent year-over-year in the third quarter but saw its net income slide as operating costs increased.

Canadian shippers are paying higher truckload rates and cross-border and less-than-truckload prices are rising as well, the Canadian General Freight Index says.

YRC Worldwide's lenders gave the company some financial wiggle room as the clock ticks down on a critical Teamster vote on wage and benefit concessions.

Vitran, a Toronto-based transportation and supply chain firm, increased profit 566 percent to $2 million in the third quarter as higher revenue and reduced debt payments eliminated an operating loss t

Old Dominion Freight Line increased its net income 13.5 percent from the second quarter and 132.3 percent from a year ago to $24.4 million in the third quarter.

Kenneth Churchill, a trucking pioneer who shut down his 68-year-old company during a historic Teamsters strike, died Oct. 20 at the age of 92.

Ryder System's earnings leaped 40 percent to $39.7 million in the third quarter on a 5 percent increase in revenue to $1.32 billion, the Miami-based company said.

YRC Worldwide is reportedly prepared to shut down subsidiary New Penn if Teamsters at the regional carrier reject proposed wage and pension concessions.

YRC Worldwide cleared another hurdle to survival by renewing its $300 million asset-backed securitization, or ABS facility, before an Oct. 31 deadline.

Trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line is expanding an overseas partnership aimed at expediting less-than-containerload freight shipped to the U.S. from China.

As many as half of the driver qualification files motor carriers keep are incomplete or inaccurate, according to a survey of trucking customers by LexisNexis.

YRC Worldwide expects to narrow its losses in the third quarter on the back of higher tonnages and revenue per load, the nation's largest trucker said Monday.

Stronger pricing and freight volume pushed Landstar System's third-quarter revenue up to $623 million, a 24 percent increase from a year ago.

A dissident Teamster who started her career as a warehouse worker and truck driver is challenging James P. Hoffa for the top job in the Teamsters union.

Trucking employment fell slightly in September, ending a six-month growth streak, according to preliminary data from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.