Trucking News

Donald J. Schneider, the former president, CEO and chairman of Schneider National, died Friday after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. He was 76 years old.

DB Schenker's recent acquisition of Suomen Kiitoautot, a Finnish trucking company, consolidates the German company’s market dominance in the Nordic nation’s logistics sector.

Pacific Alaska Freightways, a trucking and intermodal operator with headquarters in Fife, Wash., acquired Seattle-based Southern Alaska Forwarding.

The amount of freight carried by the for-hire transportation industry rose 0.1 percent in November from October, the Transportation Department said.

The fuel-based Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index rose for the third straight month in December, climbing 0.2 percent following a 0.1 percent increase

YRC Worldwide subsidiary Reddaway is speeding shipments in the West, launching a next-day service linking Las Vegas with cities in Northern California.

The world’s largest retailer, $419 billion Wal-Mart Stores, is also one of its largest shippers, managing a transportation network supplying roughly 4,500 Walmart and Sam's Club stores in the U.

Truckload linehaul rates rose 0.7 percent in December from the previous month and were up 8.6 percent year-over-year, according to Cass Information Systems.

Diesel prices across the United States increased for first time in seven weeks in the week ending Jan.

U.S. Xpress Enterprises picked Todd Smith, former president of truckload operator LinkAmerica, as president of Arnold Transportation Services, a 750-truck affiliate.

Rodolph Davis Moseley, a veteran who founded trucking company Bulldog Hiway Express with a $1,000 loan and a used truck, died Jan. 6. He was 84 years old.

More than 60 percent of truckers surveyed in November said they expect volume to increase in 2012, with only 2 percent expecting freight levels to decrease, says trucking acquisition analysis and rese

You see them more these days than a year ago, the smiling people. Odds are they work in trucking.

YRC, looking to restructure its operations as the trucking operator seeks to rebuild its finances, is preparing for talks with the Teamsters union on a redesign of its freight terminal network and how

The U.S. economy has undergone major changes in last few decades. In 1950, goods-related activity was 40 percent of GDP.

Stronger than expected job gains in transportation and manufacturing helped reduce the U.S.

Truckload rates rose less than some carriers expected but more than shippers wanted in 2011, with spot market rates on average rising 7.4 percent and contract rates climbing an average 6.5 percent, a

The Cass Freight Index for U.S.

YRC Worldwide is selling the former Akron headquarters of Roadway and may eliminate up to 100 jobs in the Ohio city, according to the Akron Beacon Jou

Orders for Class 8 heavy trucks rose 46 percent in December from November, topping 30,000 units, according to preliminary data from one research firm.

Trucking and logistics operator LinkAmerica is upgrading its fleet of tractors and trailers and enhancing its efforts to recruit and retain drivers, the company said.

Canadian trucking operator Contrans Group purchased Wilburn Archer Trucking, adding the dry bulk trucker to its transportation and logistics subsidiaries.

Trucking and logistics operator Walden Smokey Point is expanding flatbed operations by acquiring E.W. Wylie Trucking of West Fargo, N.D.

Limited changes in truck driver hours of service regulations make a severe trucking

Diesel prices across the United States fell for the six straight week in the week ending Jan.

The Teamsters union is preparing to strike companies represented by the Pipe Line Contractors Association in a dispute over retirement plans.

The Los Angeles-Long Beach’s penalty for the operation of older trucks expired Sunday, as the ports became the first in the nation to have a fleet comprised totally of 2007 or newer trucks.

Florida East Coast Railway plans to expand the reach of its intermodal business in 2012, adding a second drayage “relay” station in Georgia and strengthening its partnerships with large U.

The Federal Maritime Commission will allow Consolidated Chassis Management to directly manage its intermodal chassis pools but said it will monitor CCM to ensure the company doesn’t violate anti

Diesel prices across the United States fell for the fifth straight week in the week ending Dec. 26, falling 3.7 cents on average to the lowest price in more than two months, according to the U.S.

Groups representing shippers say new rules on work hours for truck drivers will reduce efficiency across their supply chains, complicating delivery schedules, raising costs and even undermining safety

Regional operator Cross Creek Trucking is shut down this week after federal safety regulators withdrew the company’s authority e

Required use of electronic onboard recorders on trucks and buses, a multimodal freight policy and new powers for federal safety agencies are inching closer to becoming part of a broader transportation

Despite disputes over funding levels and where to find the money, Democrats and Republicans agreed on a broad swath of the safety agenda in several bills the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportatio

The long transformation of the truckload carrier is due to pick up speed in 2012 as freight demand accelerates and trucking companies seek more stable, profitable business models in an economy still s

For almost 26 years, Pat Quinn and Max Fuller proved you don’t have to be related to be successful partners in trucking.

The American Trucking Associations said Thursday it is considering legal action against tougher new truck

Federal safety regulators issued tougher new hours of service regulations for truck driv

When FedEx reported the busiest day for shipments in its history a couple of weeks before Christmas, the company credited not its flashy signature express delivery but the business segment that once s

The parent of Concert Group Logistics said Wednesday the U.S.