Truckload

The Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index was essentially flat in November, despite stronger economic activity and higher retail sales.

Diesel prices across the United States dropped 3.7 cents in the week ending Dec. 12, falling for the third week straight and hitting a six-week low.

The driver turnover rate at large truckload carriers rose to 89 percent in the third quarter, as trucking companies struggled to hire and retain experienced drivers.

Truckload freight volumes were stronger than analysts expected in the first weeks of the fourth quarter, according to investment research firm Jefferies.

Rising freight volume and strong rate increases are lifting spirits as well as earnings at Landstar System, the sixth largest truckload carrier ranked by revenue.

Truck-related fatalities rose 8.7 percent last year, reversing a long-term trend, while overall highway deaths dropped to their lowest level since 1949, the Department of Transportation said.

A large majority of truckload carriers expect freight volumes and truck rates to rise next year, according to new survey.

Truckload linehaul rates rose 8.5 percent year-over-year in November, according to Cass Information Systems and investment research firm Avondale Partners.

Diesel prices across the United States fell 3.3 cents in the week ending Dec. 5, falling for the second week in a row as oil prices hit a two-week high.

Net orders for Class 8 heavy trucks dropped in November after several months of steady increase, according to two trucking and vehicle market research firms.

Diesel prices across the United States dropped 4.6 cents in the week ending Nov.

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Trucks handled more freight in October, as rising manufacturing output helped increase for-hire truck tonnage 0.5 percent from the previous month and 5.7 percent from a year ago, the American Trucking

Diesel prices across the United States increased 2.3 cents in the week ending Nov. 21, rising over $4 a gallon for the first time in 26 weeks as crude oil prices fell.

Orders for Class 8 heavy trucks hit a six-month high in October, with manufacturers receiving 29,824 new orders and 28,026 net orders, according to ACT Research.

Shippers turned to freight brokers for truck capacity in increasing numbers in the third quarter, boosting revenue at third-party intermediaries and at asset-based trucking companies that secure extra

The Transported Asset Protection Association is rolling out global security standards for trucking and the first trucking security certification program for motor carriers and logistics service provid

Truckload giant U.S. Xpress Enterprises is expanding its regional operations in the Northeast and its custom critical or expedited business, adding drivers and equipment, U.S.

The issue of whether truck drivers nationwide are employees or independent contractors is far from dead despite a recent

Veteran trucking executive Jack Gross is the new CEO of Haney Truck Line, a regional truckload and specialized carrier in the Pacific Northwest.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration ordered Maryland trucker Gunthers Transport to shut down, saying numerous hours of service and other safety violations made the company an "imminen

AutoInfo, the parent of non-asset trucking company Sunteck Transport, increased its net profit 13.3 percent in the third quarter to $944,000.

U.S. Xpress Enterprises is expanding its expedited refrigerated trucking service, bringing its total number of reefer teams to 100, the company said Wednesday.

Spot market volume on TransCore&rsquo;s network of load board slipped 3.7 percent in October from September<

Truckload carrier CRST is fielding teams of company drivers to haul long-haul temperature controlled freight from Southern California to the Northeast.

Diesel prices across the United States increased 1 cent in the week ending Nov. 14, rising to the highest point since late May even as crude oil traded at its lowest point in two months.

Shippers are likely to face steep increases in truckload rates in the next two years, followed

Covenant Transportation lost $11.1 million in the third quarter compared to a $1.9 million profit in the same period

More than $2 million in bankruptcy estate assets may be distributed to 676 former employees of Arrow Trucking, a flatbed carrier that shut down in 2009.

Capacity at a group of six large truckload carriers tracked by The Journal of Commerce fell a cumulative 1.5 percent from the second quarter and 1.5 percent from a year ago, with two carriers increasi

Steady freight demand in less-than-truckload and truckload markets boosted Con-way&rsquo;s total revenue 8.4 percent in the third quarter to $1.38 billion.

Preliminary net orders for Class 8 trucks defied recessionary expectations in October, rising month-over-month and year-over-year, according to ACT Research.

Disciplined management of capacity and pricing, coupled with falling fuel prices, meant better times for trucking companies in September, FTR Associates said.

Diesel prices across the United States jumped 6.7 cents in the week ending Oct. 31, extending a sudden upturn that pushed diesel to its highest point in three months.

Knight Transportation increased revenue 18.4 percent year-over-year in the third quarter to $227.1 million, but profit dropped slightly to $16.6 million as the truckload carrier expanded several lines

Celadon Trucking&rsquo;s freight revenue dropped 6 percent in the third quarter, but the truckload carrier&rsquo;s profit rose 23 percent as tighter cost controls and higher pricing improved yield.

Rising fuel prices and tight driver availability slowed profit growth at Heartland Express, still one of the most profitable truckload carriers in the U.S.

Used truck sales bounced back in September after an extended slump during the summer, according to commercial vehicle research group ACT Research.

Ryder System increased net profit 44 percent from a year ago to $56.9 million as acquisitions and organic growth boosted third quarter revenue to $1.57 billion.