Truckload

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.

As US regulators look into shipper detention practices, DAT survey finds many drivers are being delayed.

As spot market truckload volumes rise, will rates follow?

As freight demand lags, trucking's payroll drops from post-recession peak.

The soft U.S. freight economy has trucking companies slamming on the capacity brakes.

New direction for trucker-owned chassis cooperative.

The spring freight bounce fell flat for the Phoenix-based trucking company.

Schneider acquires two companies.

A surge in auto exports, as well as other goods, helped lift trucking activity at the three largest U.S.-Canada border crossings.

Despite "positive" economic indicators, freight volumes seem stuck at a "standstill."

Cass/Avondale indices for April show continued decline in truckload and intermodal pricing.

Truck capacity is overwhelmingly concentrated among small and midsize carriers.