Trucking News

The U.S. freight-related transportation industry and the warehouse sector added about 4,300 jobs in September from August, helping to push down national unemployment under 8 percent for the first time since 2009.

Universal Truckload Services completed its acquisition of LINC Logistics, a Warren, Mich.-based third-party logistics provider heavily associated with the automotive industry and especially automakers

UPS will deploy 40 new hydraulic hybrid vehicles, developed by Freightliner Custom Chassis Corp. and Parker Hannifin Corp.

Business conditions for trucking companies improved in August, and are likely to keep improving despite slow economic growth, according to transportation research firm FTR Associates.

Bulk trucking giant Quality Distribution took advantage of low-cost credit to increase its borrowing

Total Quality Logistics will open a new office in Cleveland in early November.

Less-than-truckload carriers are raising rates 3 to 4 percent, before fuel surcharges, despite “negative economic signals,” according to Stifel Nicolaus.

Transportation and logistics provider Werner Enterprises recently opened a new terminal in Brownstown Charter Township, near Detroit.

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Chengdu, a city of 14 million people more than 1,000 miles from the ports of Shanghai or Shenzhen, is at the heart of China’s plan to shift manufacturing from the higher-cost east coast to its i

Rachel Katz arrived in Chengdu in the fall of 2010 with experience as a student and teacher in China and speaking Mandarin, but little knowledge of trucking.

The long-awaited surge in diverted cargo from East Coast ports to the West Coast finally arrived in September, but the harbor trucking industry in Southern California can’t decide if it's a blessing or a curse.

Truckload carrier Celadon Trucking Services acquired some of the assets of Robinson Transport, a 200-truck motor carrier based in Columbus, Ohio.

Surface transportation trade between the U.S. and its North American Free Trade Agreement partners, Canada and Mexico, rose...

A shortage of available commercial drivers threatens truckload carriers with higher costs, and shippers with much higher rates. What is the driver shortage, and why does one exist when opportunities are plentiful and unemployment is high?

Truck tonnage rose 3.2 percent from a year ago in August but dropped 0.9 percent from July, according to the Americ

The average cost of diesel in the U.S. fell for the first time in 12 weeks, dropping 4.9 cents in the week ending Sept. 24 as oil prices dipped.

Smith Electric Vehicles withdrew a $76 million initial public offering and said it will turn to private investors f

Trucking hit a troubling milestone in the second quarter when the average annualized driver turnover rate at larger truckload carriers topped 100 percent for the first time in four years, according to

Smith Electric Vehicles is looking for a $76 million jolt to keep its electric truck business alive and growing. The struggling manufacturer launched an initial public offering on Sept.

The freight economy in the U.S. is slowing, and softer truckload shipment volumes and rising fuel costs are squeezing earnings at some of the largest U.S. transport operators.

Trans-Pacific spot rates jumped 8.6 percent this week from last week as U.S. importers scrambled to find space on vessels bound for the West Coast as a precaution against a possible East Coast port strike by the International Longshoremen's Association.

FedEx Express users of slower services will bear more of the brunt of the parcel carrier's price hike than shippers that use faster options, as the company works to slow shippers from shifting to chea

Falsified driver logbooks raised red flags for federal agents conducting a compliance review of a Kansas City, Kan.-based steak-hauling operation last month.

FedEx Freight increased revenue 5 percent from a year ago to $1.4 billion as shipments rose 4 percent in the fiscal quarter that ended Aug. 30.

The average cost of diesel in the U.S. stayed nearly flat for the second week in a row, rising three-hundredth of a cent in the week ending Sept. 17 as oil prices fell.

The trucking industry is being rewired, thanks to rapid changes in technology, regulatory and competitive demands and acquisitions and investment.

Since the end of the Great Recession, trucking industry revenue has outpaced the growth in the general economy, benefiting from a resurgence in manufacturing and growth in U.S.

Rising equipment costs and driver pay are cutting into earnings at Werner Enterprises, which lowered its third quarter earnings estimate after the stock market closed Thursday.

The timing and health of shipping peak season is as murky on the rails and roads as it is on the water.

Health care benefits and pensions as well as wages will top the agenda when the Teamsters union and UPS, the largest Teamsters employer, begin

The volume of truckload freight offered on the spot market rose 1.1 percent in August from July and increased 8.4 percent from a year ago, according to TransCore’s DAT North American Freight Ind

How big is trucking’s driver shortage?

The annualized driver turnover rate at large truckload carriers shot past 100 percent in the second quarter, rising above that percentage figure for the first time in more than four years.

Truckload pricing increased 1 percent year-over-year in August and remained flat compared with July, acc

The average cost of diesel in the U.S. stayed nearly flat, inching up a five-hundredth of a cent in the week ending Sept. 10 as oil prices rose.

Billions of dollars worth of fresh produce and pharmaceuticals cross the Mexican border each year to enter the U.S., and billions more in poultry and meat gets shipped south.

When it comes to trouble finding skilled employees, trucking isn’t alone.

U.S. truck shipments of fresh produce totaled 8.9 million tons in the second quarter, up 24 percent from the first quarter and 1 percent higher year-over-year, according to a new report.