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Forward Air lost $3.1 million in the first quarter as the company saw accelerating declines in its core air freight trucking volume and took an impairment charge to meet the deteriorating market.

YRC Worldwide and its lenders finalized a credit agreement April 20 that allows the financially troubled trucking giant to defer pension payments from August until Jan.1 and use the company's rea

The simmering trade war between the United States and Mexico hasn’t proved a roadblock to U.S. carriers that want to move more freight across the border.

Old Dominion Freight Line relocated a service center in Denver to improve efficiency and reduce handling.

London -- Trucking between the UK and France risks total shutdown starting April 16 as French fishermen threatened to extend their blockade of ports to the cross channel tunnel.

YRC Worldwide is looking to defer millions of dollars worth of payments into Teamster union pension funds to help prop up the company’s cash reserves as it struggles to improve its finances in t

The U.S.

A group of 11 shippers dropped their class action lawsuit alleging the nation’s largest less-than-truckload carriers conspired to fix fuel surcharge prices.

UPS Freight expanded its door-to-door less-than-truckload service in Mexico and shortened transit times in Canada in a move to solidify its market position in anticipation of a stronger economy.

Trucker YRC Worldwide, announcing a new series of cutbacks and charges in its troubled business, said Tuesday tonnage at its national less-than-truckload declined 29 percent in the first quarter.

The average retail price of diesel fuel last week rose seven-tenths of a cent to $2.228 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Refrigerated trucker Frozen Food Express, which had withstood the economic downturn with growing profits and revenue last year, announced it has cut 150 positions and is taking other actions to reduce

The Superior Court of Washington for King County ruled FedEx Ground pick up and delivery drivers are independent contractors and not legally full-time employees.

Corporate relocation expert Atlas World Group named two top executives following the retirement of former chairman Jim Stamm.

YRC Worldwide will fire 600 nonunion employees in the next several weeks as a result of its Yellow Transportation-Roadway integration and weak business volume brought on by the weak economy.

The average retail price of diesel fuel soared 13.1 cents last week to $2.221 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Con-way’s less-than-truckload subsidiary Con-way Freight is accelerating transit times between Washington's Tri-Cities area and eastern Idaho to support local farms during the region's peak plan

Trucking companies and the shippers relying on them could see fuel costs take another hit — fired from the bow of the maritime industry.

Less-than-truckload carriers are seeing demand leave the market faster than they can withdraw capacity, and they are trying to catch up.

Old Dominion Freight Line doubled its capacity in South Bend, Ind. with its relocation to a 55-door less-than-truckload terminal five miles north of its current facility.

Mid-States Express, a major player in the Midwestern regional less-than-truckload market, was forced to shut down yesterday after their financing was cut off, according to a source at one of the carri

Truck tonnage increased 1.7 percent in February from January based on the American Trucking Associations’ monthly survey of approximately 37,000 members.

FedEx is holding billions of dollars worth of business – and jobs – over the heads of Congress and the Obama administration by conditioning future aircraft purchases on keeping its parcel

OD Global, a division of less-than-truckload carrier Old Dominion Freight Line, expanded its trade management service to incorporate new Importer Security Filing requirements, known as U.S.

YRC Worldwide regional less-than-truckload subsidiary USF Holland will close 11 terminals, representing 15 percent of Holland's network, by April 6 to cope with weak freight demand throughout its syst

The rush by shippers away from trucking heavyweight YRC Worldwide in response to the company’s fragile financial and operating position – both real and perceived – has shifted into r

FedEx earnings plunged in the company’s fiscal third quarter as a result of the global recession.

Montreal-based TransForce, Canada's largest all-categories trucking/logistics firm, reports buckling down to a "deteriorating" business economy in North America with hiring and salary freeze

The Producer Price Index in the transportation and warehousing sector slowed to 0.5 percent in February from 0.8 percent in January.

Southeastern Freight Lines is replacing carrier partnerships in Alabama with its own direct service to speed delivery and reduce damage claims.

Freight tonnage will grow more than 26 percent and freight revenue by 68 percent by 2020, according to a study sponsored by the American Trucking Associations.

YRC President, Chairman and CEO William D.

Con-way is trimming wages, salaries and benefits across its entire employee base to save costs during the deepening recession.

UPS Freight cut transit times in Michigan and Wisconsin, including next-day service between new direct points linking Chicago, Minneapolis and Milwaukee.

For LTL carriers needing cash to bolster operations in a declining economy, the sale and leaseback of truck terminals, even to competitors, could prove beneficial.

Teamsters drivers and dock workers returned to work at Oak Harbor Freight last week, days after ending their five-month strike against the Auburn, Wash., less-than-truckload carrier.

It’s taken more than two years, but Debra Pluchino just hit a breakthrough with one of the largest shippers on Long Island, scoring an agreement to run test shipments because they’re not s

Teamsters drivers and dock workers returned to work at Oak Harbor Freight last week, days after ending their five-month strike against the Auburn, Wash., less-than-truckload carrier.

Averitt Express, which specializes in less-than-truckload service, is expanding its truckload coverage in response to increased demand in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and New Jersey.

North American LTL carrier Estes Express Lines expanded its Mexico service with the launch of a third-party logistics subsidiary, Estes Logística.