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Virginia is trying to attract interstate trucking business -- and registration revenue -- by eliminating what it calls duplicative state safety inspections.

YRC Worldwide will have to pay bondholders who refused its debt-for-equity swap $21.6 million next month, the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas ruled.

Less-than-truckload carriers haven’t always been keen customers of freight brokers, but many operators are turning to third-party logistics in a search for new business.

A strategy of housing asset-intensive trucking and non-asset based logistics in the same corporation did not survive the freight downturn at YRC Worldwide.

New York City will expand a program that encourages off-peak deliveries in Manhattan to help clear traffic jams that cost the city more than $13 billion a year.

Truckload capacity is so tight that even a slowing economy is unlikely to dampen rate hikes this summer, according to investment research firm R.W. Baird.

Anticipating new federal truck safety rules, Con-way Freight purchased 1,300 2010- model-year heavy trucks equipped with anti-crash safety technologies.

Averitt Express is expanding into the flatbed trucking market, fielding a fleet of 50 flatbed trailers and ordering 50 more, the company said Wednesday.

YRC Worldwide still believes it will "generate positive adjusted EBITDA" in the second quarter, the company said June 29, as it concluded its annual stockholder meeting.

One-time shutdown and termination costs of $9 million to $11 million in the sale of YRC Logistics will bite into liquidity gains for YRC Worldwide.

The Teamsters union is aiming to get YRC Worldwide to resume some pension contributions starting in January 2011, union officials said Tuesday.

Truck safety groups are calling for a dramatic reduction in the time truck drivers are allowed to be behind the wheel, saying federal regulators should limit driving time to eight hours and a day and

The Teamsters union will hold a national conference call Tuesday for its members at YRC Worldwide on the company's "re-entry" into its multiemployer pension plans.

Truck, train and pipeline shipments between the U.S. and Canada and Mexico totaled $65.8 billion in April, a 32.4 percent increase from a year earlier, the Transportation Department reported.

Trucking companies that once kept third-party logistics providers at arm’s length are pulling them in for a closer embrace as they seek new sources of freight.

ABF Freight System’s labor costs per driver are more than 15 percent higher than those paid by national competitor YRC, and higher than several other less-than-truckload competitors, according t

Truck tonnage slipped 0.6 percent in May, putting a brake on shipping growth after trucking demand reached its highest level of the recovery the month before, the American Trucking Associations said F

Struggling less-than-truckload giant YRC Worldwide said it will sell part of its YRC Logistics operation for $37 million to private equity investor Austin Ventures and partner with that firm on some o

Package carrier FedEx is building a small-package sort and delivery station near Chicago that will be the fifth major facility in that area for its FedEx Ground unit.

Con-way Freight is expanding its work for Caterpillar Logistics Services, the logistics arm of heavy equipment maker Caterpillar, to cover trucking in more than half the United States as well as busin

The nation's largest trucking operator, YRC Worldwide, is forging closer relationships with third-party logistics providers as it tries to rebuild its business.

FedEx planes may be soaring toward higher profit, but the $34.7 billion transportation company’s freight-hauling trucks are struggling to escape losses churned up by higher costs and deep rate d

Ocean shipping lines and trucking companies must cooperate more closely to move freight efficiently through their customers' integrated global supply chains, a maritime industry leader told trucking e

Estes is speeding freight from the U.S. Southwest to Western Canada, launching a three-day service from Texas and Oklahoma to Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta.

Net orders for heavy-duty trucks increased 84 percent year-over-year in May, as truck operators anticipated a stronger shipping peak, said ACT Research.

YRC Worldwide says it may try to raise funds by issuing new equity shares, but the company is hardly a darling on Wall Street.

Sometimes you need to spend money to make money, but that’s proving difficult for YRC Worldwide while the company recovers from massive losses.

Canadian truckers angry about a reservation system they say is making it difficult to use the ferry linking Newfoundland and the Canadian mainland protested yesterday.

A bipartisan Senate bill aimed at defending businesses from fraudulent freight brokering schemes is being backed by independent truckers and freight brokers.

FedEx Freight's losses more than tripled in the fiscal year ending May 31, as steep price discounting in 2009 cut deeply into its earnings, despite market share gains.

FedEx’s net profit reached $419 million in the quarter ending May 31 following a loss a year ago and the company said Monday it expects a recovering global economy and stronger pricing to push e

YRC Worldwide revised a credit agreement to borrow additional money, the company said Monday, as the trucking operator said it expects a pre-tax profit in the second quarter but that higher spending i

YRC Worldwide’s stock value fell almost 12 percent Thursday to 20 cents a share, as approximately 131 million shares changed hands in a day of frenzied trading.

YRC Worldwide's stock plunged to a record low Wednesday, dropping from about 31 cents to 22.2 cents per share before pulling up to 23.1 cents when the market closed.

UPS said Monday it is bolstering its technology to simplify multimodal shipments and give importers more control over packages and less-than-truckload freight.

Tens of thousands of trucks and buses will be stopped for safety inspections by state police this week in the Commercial Vehicle Safety Alliance’s annual Roadcheck.

Economic recovery in the U.S.

Truck tonnage climbed to its highest level since September 2008, the brink of the financial crisis that precipitated the recession, a trucking industry index shows.

Retirees in multiemployer pension plans whose former companies failed shouldn't be penalized by pension reform, a pension expert said at a Senate hearing yesterday.

A Chicago-area pension fund that faced insolvency by 2013 will be split in two, with workers from bankrupt firms receiving benefits from the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.