Trucking News

After a seesaw year in which freight rates bounded up and down like a yo-yo, shippers and carriers alike are looking for stability and predictability in their businesses.

Nashville, Ind.-based transportation forecaster FTR Associates has reported that its Trucking Conditions Index for November, published in its January 2013 Trucking Update, rose almost two full points to a favorable reading of 9.7.

YRC Freight today named Darren Hawkins senior vice president of sales and marketing, effective Jan. 14.

Class 8 truck orders in December 2012 totaled 20,836 units, a 6 percent increase from November but a 30 percent decline from the same month in 2011, according to preliminary data from FTR Associates.

From labor battles to natural disasters, 2012 was filled with risk for shippers and the companies moving and managing their cargo. Here are the stories that defined the year.

Celadon Trucking Services has agreed to acquire Rock Leasing and Kelly Logistics.

Robert L. Johnson, founder and chairman of The RLJ Companies and chairman of RLJ Equity Partners, today announced the acquisition of regional trucking company R. Thompson Trucking, now RLJ Thompson Trucking.

South Carolina-based less-than-truckload transportation company Southeastern Freight Lines today promoted Chris Reynolds from North Atlanta service center manager to director of safety and security.

Fast food chain Jack in the Box is moving more of its freight via 53-foot containers on intermodal trains.

Cudahy, Wis.-based logistics company Roadrunner Transportation Systems has announced that the underwriters for its recent public offering of common stock exercised in full their over-allotment option to purchase an additional...

The intra-Asia trucking market retains huge growth potential if inefficient border processes and excessive bureaucracy can be improved, according to one leading logistics executive.

Roadrunner Transportation Systems has acquired Direct Connection Transportation...

Transportation marketplace uShip.com has closed an $18 million round of Series C financing with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers to extend the development, sales and marketing of uShip’s commercial freight platform...

FedEx Freight increased its profit 90 percent from a year ago as less-than-truckload revenue and freight demand climbed in the three months that ended Nov. 30.

FedEx today reported its income in the second quarter, ending Nov. 30, was $438 million, dropping 12 percent from $497 million in the same quarter last year.

The American Trucking Associations today reported that its seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index increased 3.7 percent in November, following October’s 3.7 percent drop. It was the first monthly gain since July.

Edward Wytkind, president of the Transportation Trades Department, AFL-CIO, today urged the U.S. Senate to pass the pending Hurricane Disaster Relief Appropriations Act to help regions affected by...

The Teamsters union says it is willing to discuss labor costs when contract talks with ABF Freight System begin Dec. 18 — but not just union labor costs.

Transportation and logistics service provider Roadrunner Transportation Systems today named John G. Kennedy to its board of directors, replacing Mark R. Holden.

Container trailer operators on Dec. 15 called off a three-day strike at the APM Terminals facility in India’s Port of Nhava Sheva...

A fatal accident serves as another reminder of the difficulty U.S. regulators face in keeping illicit carriers off the road.

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration has ordered Two Dayes Trucking and Two Dayes Transport, based in Murfreesboro, N.C., to cease all transportation services immediately because of safety violations.

The most important benefit Arnold Transportation may gain from its merger with LinkAmerica isn’t additional trucks or drivers but density.

Cookeville, Tenn.-based transportation and logistics company Averitt Express has shortened its less-than-truckload service times to eastern Canada, including Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and Quebec City.

Nashville, Ind.-based transportation forecaster FTR Associates’ Trucking Conditions Index started to rise significantly in September as expected, recording a 65 percent increase from August to 9.6, before declining to 7.9 in October.

The annualized line-haul driver turnover rate at large truckload fleets (those that report more than $30 million in annual revenue), dipped 2 percentage points to 104 percent in the third quarter...

Container trailer operators serving the APM Terminals facility in India’s Port of Nhava Sheva (Jawaharlal Nehru) launched an indefinite strike...

The freight trucking industry in China has been increasing at 13.8 percent per year to about $59.3 billion in 2012, according to IBISWorld’s “Freight Trucking in China” report.

The Teamsters Union recently argued in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Court that the U.S. Department of Transportation’s pilot program to open the border to Mexican trucks must be shut down...

Seasonally adjusted trucking employment increased 3.6 percent year-over-year in November, according to data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Clean Energy Fuels has finished the first stage of America’s Natural Gas Highway, a network of LNG truck fueling stations to support long-haul, heavy-duty goods movement along major interstate corridors...