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Truck tonnage declined in October, but it was the smallest drop in 2009, said the American Trucking Associations.

FedEx Ground, the small-package ground delivery unit of FedEx, this week opened a distribution facility in Medley, Fla.

The trucking industry is still mired in the recession and likely won’t pull out until some time next year, according to a widely accepted index of conditions in the market.

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters said no talks are under way with ABF Freight System that would result in concessions for its members.

Trucking companies that are surviving in today's treacherous economic environment will be well positioned to prosper when traffic begins to rebound next year, according to carrier and shipper executiv

Trucking company A. Duie Pyle is expanding its warehousing operations, opening a 243,000-square-foot warehouse in Westfield, Mass.

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FedEx Freight, the less-than-truckload division of FedEx, agreed to a partnership with Vision Industries to test a tractor powered by the hydrogen/electric hybrid Tyrano drive train.

Intermodal marketing companies, middleman firms that arrange either all-highway or combined rail-truck shipments for clients such as factories or retail stores, used trains for a greater share of thei

Shippers and carriers expect there will be sufficient capacity in the domestic transportation system to handle the modest growth in traffic that will occur in the coming year, but eventually there wil

Smaller logistics operators and freight brokers outperformed their larger counterparts in the third quarter, but a less-than-robust recovery is squeezing profit margins at all 3PLs, said the Transport

To fully equip a Bronx, N.Y., station as the company’s first all-hybrid facility, FedEx Express ordered 51 new hybrid vehicles from Azure Dynamics.

Old Dominion Freight Line will speed service through its Northwest gateway into Canada starting Nov. 9, connecting more than 65 Old Dominion service centers to Edmonton and Calgary, Canada.

National Refrigerated Trucking, a truckload and less-than-truckload refrigerated trucking company, opened a new LTL lane to Georgia and Florida.

The United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware approved Nov. 3 the sale of time definite regional carrier Velocity Express to private investor Comvest Investment Partners.

Less-than-truckload carrier Con-way says it moved toward "more aggressive" price discounting in the third quarter than it normally uses and started hiring back workers to cope with tonnage g

YRC Worldwide stock tanked on Wall Street this week as the company launched a debt-for-equity exchange one analyst compared to a “controlled bankruptcy.”

William J. Logue, a veteran FedEx Express executive, will become president of FedEx Freight, the express giant’s $4.6 billion trucking arm, Dec. 1.

YRC Worldwide will launch a debt-for-equity exchange offer this week that could wipe more than $500 million in debt from the financially-troubled trucker's books.

An Internal Revenue Service decision to reverse a previous assessment that FedEx had misclassified some package delivery drivers marks a strong victory for the carrier and its use of independent contr

DSV, Scandinavia’s biggest trucking and logistics company, reported a steep decline in third quarter earnings but said it gained market share in its key ocean, air and land transport sectors.

The board of YRC Worldwide named Chief Operating Officer Timothy A. Wicks president of the trucking giant last week, a vote of confidence in Wick's handling of the company's financial crisis.

YRC Worldwide says it is gaining new customers even as it continues to lose some shippers, leading to "stabilization" of its customer base and improved yields, top company officials say.

YRC Worldwide’s regional carrier group reported a $293,000 profit, its first since the second quarter of 2008, largely driven by a turnaround at former USF regional carrier Holland, said YRC Wor

Trucking giant YRC Worldwide, fighting to stay out of bankruptcy, cut its net loss to $158.7 million in the third quarter but saw its volume and revenue fall sharply as shippers apparently moved busin

UPS Freight improved transit times between western Canada and points across the United States.

A change in vacation policy allegedly helped less-than-truckload carrier Saia return to profitability in the third quarter.

Ryder System profit fell 66 percent in the third quarter as the company closed some logistics operations and carried less freight due to the global recession.

With an eye on the coming recovery, Old Dominion Freight Line pumped $50.2 million into infrastructure investments even as the less-than-truckload multi-regional motor carrier’s revenue fell 22

ABF Freight suffered an operating loss of $14 million in the third quarter, which was an improvement on the loss of $25 million in the second quarter.

Through cost cutting and a pair of key acquisitions, non-asset based third party logistics company C.H.

A driver pre-employment screening program offered by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration fulfills a long-sought goal of the American Trucking Associations.

For the second time, YRC Worldwide employees in Teamsters Local 710 in Chicago rejected wage and benefit cuts proposed by the company and union, a dissident labor group reports.

Weber Distribution is expanding a consolidation program that worked for a segment of its market to a broader base of customers.

The Evans Network of Companies acquired the container drayage, domestic truckload and brokerage assets of two southeastern U.S.

Surface transportation should show modest growth through 2010 and then take off strongly in 2011 with double-digit growth in volume, a Schneider Logistics executive said Tuesday.

YRC Worldwide won an extension of a deadline by which it must have and maintain $100 million in liquidity — but only for a few weeks — as it strives to avoid bankruptcy.

YRC Worldwide's Canadian subsidiary, YRC Reimer, formerly known as Reimer Express, closed its operations in Edmonton, Alberta, after Teamster employees there refused wage and benefit reductions, the

YRC Worldwide realigned its senior management for the second time this year, naming Tim Wicks chief operating officer Oct. 5 and promoting or reassigning other key executives.

Refrigerated trucking company FFE Transportation Services signed a four-year contract valued at more than $3 million for fleetwide deployment of ReeferTrak, a monitoring and management service provide