Truckload

Rapid changes in technology are reshaping the logistics landscape and spurring the growth of freight management services, including the formation of nearly $1 billion firm Sunteck/TTS Holdings.

The largest US truckload carrier cut more than 1,600 tractors from its overal fleet in the past year, but added 130 trucks to its dedicated business, which increased revenue and profit.

Even when volumes rise, lower revenue shows impact of reduced rates and fuel surcharges at publicly owned carriers.

US regulators are increasing funding for driver-training schools and institutions serving veterans while pushing a pilot program that would license under-21 ex-military drivers.

US shippers may be concerned about trucking rate hikes in 2017 and 2018, but pricing power isn't likely to slip away from them soon.

Quarterly net profit dropped at the third-largest trucking operator for the first time since early 2014, thanks to lower truckload and intermodal rates. Dedicated is an exception.

Falling revenue per tractor and higher equipment and insurance costs will narrow Covenant Transport's third-quarter profits, and the truckload carrier won't be alone.

The truckload carrier is reducing the size of its company fleet but hopes a pay hike will attract more independent contractors.

A $13 million infusion of venture capital is slated to help a cloud-based load-tracking provider expand to new modes and new markets.

Southern California’s landmark “pool of pools” in which three equipment providers share more than 72,000 inter-operable chassis could be improved.

Schneider National, family-owned since 1935, plans a financial lane change in 2017.

Finding and shutting down bad trucking operators remains a challenge for US regulators, as the case of a Georgia company ordered off the road Friday shows.

Truckload rates have been declining year-over-year for six months, according to one measure, as US shippers hobbled by a slow economy demand transportation savings.

Trucking operators are slashing truck orders.

The new head of the American Trucking Associations says autonomous vehicles will benefit truck drivers, not replace them.

Truckload shippers will enjoy continued pricing power, Chainalytics' Matt Harding says. For LTL shippers, however, the outlook is costlier.

Seasonal adjustments may account, in part, for an unusually strong gain in truck tonnage in "difficult-to-read" August.

EZE Truck Holdings, which has grown through mergers and acquisitions since 2009, is combining with Farran International.

Truckload linehaul costs and intermodal pricing both drop year-over-year, leading Avondale Partners to lower its truckload rate forecast.

Shipments on the truckload spot market increased year-over-year for the first time since December 2014 in August.

Automation on the highways and in warehouses will radically change how products are produced, moved, and stored over the next decade, CBRE says.

Acquiring California-based Gardner Trucking will add more than $400 million to CRST's annual revenue while adding new services and markets.

Largest US truckload carrier sees increase in demand from contract customers, but rates still down 1 to 1.5 percent.

Jerry Moyes, who built Swift Transportation into the largest US truckload carrier, will retire at the end of the year, the company said Thursday.

Hanjin Shipping’s collapse has left US motor carriers and intermodal equipment providers scrambling to limit their financial exposure and wondering what to do.

European truckload carrier Waberer’s said it was able to increase revenue and volume in the first half.

Despite an uptick from June last month, lots of available trucks are likely to keep truckload and intermodal rates soft, Cass and Avondale Partners say.

The second round of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions constraints for heavy trucks gives manufacturers through 2027 to meet most stringent limits.

In its first acquisition in 78 years, Kottke Trucking expanded its business 60 percent, gaining drivers, freight, scale and density.

Connecticut trucking company will enable fast-growing supply chain provider to expand amid sluggish growth elsewhere in the trucking industry.

Small carriers may have gained more revenue than their larger counterparts last year, reversing a recent trend. Can they do it again in 2016?

The North American Chassis Pool Cooperative is offering rentals of premium intermodal chassis near the port of Savannah.

Despite an uptick in volume in July, trucking executives see a long road ahead before truckload rates rise.

The fifth-largest U.S. truckload carrier is cutting some shippers loose as they seek deep rate cuts in a soft market.

Direct ChassisLink's acquisition this week of a technology company will broaden the intermodal equipment manager’s ability to manage assets.

Swift Transportation's efforts to control capacity weren't enough to stave off a decline in earnings.

A drop in spot rates and sluggish economy bit into revenue and profit at the fourth-largest U.S. truckload carrier.

Tonnage drops in June despite other improving indicators for trucking.

The EU has fined four of Europe’s largest truck manufacturers a record 2.93 billion euros ($3.3 billion).

Second-quarter results show $6.2 billion J.B. Hunt is spending to build intermodal, truck volume, revenue.