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Canadian shippers saw overall ground transportation costs rise 3 percent month-to-month in July, according to the latest Canadian General Freight Index.

YRC Worldwide's chief operations officer left his union employees no room for doubt about the importance of ratifying wage

UPS bought 130 hybrid electric vehicles to add to its growing alternative-fuel vehicle fleet.

Less-than-truckload carriers are firing rate increases aloft like flares, hoping to secure higher pricing that will keep them afloat in an uncertain economy.

UPS Freight will raise its non-contract rates 5.9 percent Oct. 18, becoming the fourth major less-than-truckload carrier to ask shippers for a general rate increase.

Trucking giant YRC Worldwide completed a 1-25 reverse stock split, boosting its per share value from about 25 cents Thursday to above $6 Friday morning.

Shares of YRC Worldwide plunged more than 20 percent in trading on Wall Street Thursday after an industry analyst urged investors to "get out of the stock today" when the troubled trucking giant said

The Teamsters union is offering to extend its current contract with YRC Worldwide for two years and accept dramatically reduced pension contributions in return for an unprecedented say in the manageme

FedEx Freight is raising the ante in what's quickly becoming a reverse less-than-truckload rate war, increasing its general tariff rates 6.9 percent Nov. 1.

The American Trucking Association's for-hire truck tonnage index fell 2.7 percent in August from July, its largest month-to-month drop since March 2009.

Bill Zollars, the YRC Worldwide chairman who built the company into the country’s largest industrial trucker and then had to rescue the business from the brink of failure, will retire as chairma

National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Deborah Hersman said it is "long past time" trucking firms took steps to reduce the risk of driver fatigue, after hearing evidence today that acute fatigu

A majority of shippers approve of FedEx's plans to merge its two trucking units and do not foresee diverting freight to competitors, a Wolfe Trahan survey finds.

ABF Freight System said today it will raise its general tariff rates 5.9 percent, following an identical increase announced last week by c

YRC Worldwide reached a tentative agreement with the Teamsters union on a comprehensive financial restructuring to help the struggling trucking giant survive.

At the start of 2007, FedEx Freight was on a roll.

Commercial trailer orders rose 2 percent from July to August, and were up 55 percent from a year ago, ACT Research reports.

FedEx Freight is studying a price increase of its own after YRC's general rate increase this week, Presi

The number of workers employed by for-hire trucking firms has grown steadily since February, but is still lower than it was a year ago and far smaller than payroll numbers two years ago, an analysis o

Trucking giant YRC Worldwide raised its tariff rates at national carrier YRC by 5.9 percent Sept.

UPS said it is preparing to follow its ban on driver texting with a broader policy on use of cell and smart phones while its employees are behind the wheel, in support of federal policies to combat di

The White House is drawing fire from highway safety advocates for its support of pilot projects permitting heavier trucks on interstate highways in two states.

YRC Worldwide is asking the Teamsters union for a new round of “cost savings,” but the price could be high for the largest U.S. trucking operator.

Higher core sales, a strong Canadian dollar and higher fuel surcharges increased total revenue and net profit at same-day trucker Dynamex, Dallas.

Struggling with rising freight volume and continuing losses, FedEx will merge its FedEx Freight and FedEx National LTL networks, closing as many as 100 facilities.

Fedex doubled its net profit in its quarter ending Aug. 31 to $380 million on strong expansion in international express shipping, but the company issued a forecast for slower global economic growth.

YRC Worldwide will pay $10 million to settle racial harassment claims at two Chicago-area terminals, the U

The Teamsters union is telling workers at YRC Worldwide that it will only support concessions sought by the financially troubled trucking company if they come with a “comprehensive restructuring

ABF Freight System is waging a two-front campaign to cut its labor costs by negotiating with the Teamsters about contract concessions and lobbying Congress for legislation to ease the burden unionized

When the Surface Transportation Board stripped antitrust immunity from truck freight classification in 2007, hope spread that a less adversarial, more cooperative carrier-shipper relationship would em

Shippers can expect expedited general rate increases from less-than-truckload carriers, trucking officials at an investor conference in New York said.

Trucking giant YRC Worldwide is asking Nasdaq for more time to comply with its minimum share value rule and avoid delisting from the stock exchange.

Dutch express and logistics company TNT this week launched the first fully electric delivery vehicle fleet in China.

President Obama said he wants long-term transportation legislation to include a permanent infrastructure bank that can make investments outside regular state formulas, and to put his passenger rail pr

Industry groups were scrambling for details on how the administration expects to develop the $50 bil

President Obama proposed to spend $50 billion to "jumpstart" construction of roads, railways and airport runways, the White House said, and pair it with "a long-term framework to reform

Last year’s less-than-truckload price war is still claiming victims, but not those once expected to fall. Two of Con-way Freight’s top officers, President John G.

In a new sign that trucking companies are investing in new capacity again, net heavy truck orders jumped 8.3 percent in August from July and were up 16.8 percent from a year ago, according to prelimin

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Truck tonnage rose 7.4 percent in July, the eighth consecutive month of year-to-year increase, the American Trucking Associations reported.