Trucking News

Schneider National helped create the template for the long-haul truckload carrier in the decades after trucking deregulation in the 1980s.

Bigger, heavier trucks just can’t stay on the road in Congress.

Germany will shut a canal linking the river Rhine to Hamburg, Europe’s second largest container port, late Friday night as the coldest February temperatures across Europe in almost three decades

The trucking and rail lobbies are calling a truce in their battle over truck size and weight limits, hoping a measure of intermodal unity will help push a controversial multi-year surface transportati

Roadrunner Transportation Services increased its net profit 77 percent in the fourth quarter to $6.9 million as revenue jumped 43.6 percent to $238 million.

Flatbed trucking company Maverick Transportation is raising truck driver pay as it purchases new trucks and expands capacity to meet growing freight demand.

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Truckload rates are likely to rise anywhere from 2 to 6 percent in 2012 and even as high as 8 percent in coming years, depending on the strength of the recovery and the effect of new truck safety regu

A federal prosecutor is charging a Pennsylvania trucking company with running a three-year scheme to avoid federal trucking driver hours of service regulations.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration slapped an out-of-service order on U&D Services, shutting down the recently established trucking company.

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Trucking operators profiting from rising U.S. domestic shipping demand in turn are boosting sales and profits at truck and engine makers and technology firms.

There’s a new intermodal rhythm humming along the roads and rail lines connecting manufacturers and retailers with ports and plants across the United States.

Deciding it is what it hauls, YRC Worldwide is rebranding its largest less-than-truckload operating subsidiary YRC as YRC Freight. The name change is more than cosmetic.

YRC Worldwide is changing more than the name of its long-haul less-than-truckload subsidiary.

Harbor trucking executives across the U.S. celebrated an important victory last fall when the U.S.

Some operations at the Port of Seattle are feeling the impact of a push by harbor truck drivers for changes in their pay and positions.

Transport operators may be planning to purchase more trailers in the first quarter of 2012, as stronger than usual freight shipments spur demand for capacity.

About 170 shippers participating in a “fly-in” to deliver a pro-trucking message to Congress Feb. 1 arrived just as House Republicans unveiled a transportation plan.

Old Dominion Freight Line increased its profit 84.4 percent in 2011 to $139.5 million, while revenue rose 27.1 percent to $1.88 billion for the full year.

Transportation and warehousing were among the industries that contributed to the creation of 243,000 jobs in January, pushing the unemployment rate from 8.5 to 8.3 percent, the lowest since February.<

Acquisitions and internal growth in all business segments boosted fourth-quarter and year-end profit and revenue at supply chain giant Ryder System.

Maersk Inc., the U.S. arm of the A.P. Moller-Maersk Group, agreed to sell Direct ChassisLink, its chassis-leasing subsidiary, to the private equity firm Littlejohn & Co.

Landstar System&rsquo;s fourth quarter revenue rose 22.1 percent to $717.5 million, powered by a significant increase in freight volume and an &ldquo;extra&rdquo; week.

Trucking and logistics giant Con-way roared back from the recession last year as its net profit skyrocketed 22-fold from $4 million in 2010 to $88.4 million in 2011.

OOCL plans to quit providing chassis for the drayage of import and export containers at facilities in the New York City metropolitan area and in Rochester, N.Y. as of April 1.

Strong truckload demand pushed revenue up 10.4 percent in the fourth quarter to $2.6 billion at C.H. Robinson Worldwide, the largest U.S. freight broker.

Multiregional less-than-truckload carrier Saia returned to trucking&rsquo;s billion dollar club in 2011 as its profit skyrocketed on higher LTL rates and surcharges.

Less-than-truckload operator Old Dominion Freight Line is moving deeper into the drayage business, opening a container drayage facility in the Pacific Northwest.

YRC Worldwide is rebranding its largest less-than-truckload operating subsidiary, YRC, as YRC Freight.

Toll Global Forwarding dismissed on Monday Teamsters union charges that the logistics company pays its employee drivers in Southern California below market rates and is trying to delay the u

Cargo interests and customs brokers complained to the Federal Maritime Commission that trucking companies in Los Angeles-Long Beach are still charging a clean-truck fee even though the ports stopped c

YRC Worldwide is proposing changes to its long-haul freight network that will speed shipments and take long-haul carrier YRC out of the next-day freight market.

Eurotunnel, the operator of the subsea tunnel between France and the U.K., booked double-digit growth in rail freight and truck traffic in 2011, driven by new services and the collapse of a French fer

Trucking operator Arkansas Best returned to profit in 2011, reporting a $6.8 million net profit for the full year, compared with a $32.6 million loss in 2010.

The growth of U.S.-Mexico trade is doing nothing to clear the gridlock at the border.

Hub Group expects a &ldquo;transformational year&rdquo; for the intermodal industry as Eastern rail network expansion boosts intermodal volumes, company officials said.

The Teamsters union, as part of its national strategy to organize harbor truck drivers, has taken on Toll Global Forwarding, charging that the company is using national labor law to delay a vote among

The trucking equipment market accelerated its recovery in 2011, as motor carriers ordered new tractors and rolling stock to replace aging vehicles.

A &ldquo;challenging&rdquo; driver market will put more pressure on trucking costs, capacity and pricing in 2012, says truckload carrier Werner Enterprises.