Trucking News

The Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index reversed course in October, rising 1.1 percent from September after declining for three consecutive months, indicating that trucking activity as measured by f

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

Less-than-truckload pricing is rising, financial results from the largest LTL carriers show, buoyed by tightening capacity and increased freight volume despite uncertainty about the course the economy

Displaying confidence in U.S.

A 30 percent increase in shipments pushed third-quarter gross revenue up 40 percent year-over-year to $159 million at Echo Global Logistics.

Profits tightened at XPO Logistics, formerly Express-1Expedited Solutions, as operating revenue rose 6.6 percent in the third quarter to $47.4 million.

Less than two months after being named president of YRC, Jeff Rogers is cutting away layers of management and consolidating sales and operations in an attempt to steer the national less-than-truckload

The intermodal industry gathers next week in Atlanta for the Intermodal Expo, hosted by the Intermodal Association of North America.

A new management style is becoming evident at YRC Worldwide and its long-haul subsidiary YRC, as new CEO James L.

Transportation employment increased more than 2 percent year-over-year in October, with rail employment up 3.8 percent and trucking up 2.9 percent.

YRC Worldwide gave Jamie G. Pierson the job he’s been doing effectively since August, naming him executive vice president and chief financial officer.

Somewhere, somehow, the intermodal market missed the message that the U.S. economy might be stumbling back into recession.

The center of intermodal growth is shifting toward the center of the U.S., as U.S. manufacturing creates more shorter-haul, domestic intermodal freight.

As more truckloads are converted to intermodal containerloads, trucking companies aren’t rushing to cut rates to keep that freight on the highway.

The $500 million financial restructuring completed in July may save YRC Worldwide in the long-term, but any gain came with some short-term pain in the third quarter.

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

Backers of two competing transportation plans are jockeying for support by selling their initiatives as job creators and taking shots at the other side for funding shortfalls.

Acquisitions, rate hikes and a surge in freight pushed revenue up 38.2 percent to $226.2 million in the third quarter at Roadrunner Transportation System.

TransForce's acquisition of a cross-border, expedited less-than-truckload carrier expands the Canadian trucking giant's reach further into the U.S.

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

UPS Freight is rolling out technology that will help less-than-truckload shippers better control the “first mile” of any freight movement, the LTL pickup.

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

Vitran’s losses deepened to $3.4 million in the third quarter, compared with a $2.3 million net loss in the second quarter and a $1.9 million net profit a year ago.

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.

Multiregional less-than-truckload carrier Saia nearly doubled its net profit year-over-year in the third quarter as revenue rose 14 pe

The Port of Los Angeles will enforce all concession requirements in its clean-truck program upheld in a recent ruling by the U.S.

Arkansas Best swung to a $12.3 million net profit in the third quarter from a loss a year ago despite lower freight volume at the less-than-truckload subsidiary, ABF Freight System.

Struggling trucking giant YRC Worldwide may stay on the Nasdaq stock exchange despite the low value of its stock, a Nasdaq hearings panel decided this week.

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

Domestic truck volumes in North America are on a different course than U.S.-bound containerized ocean freight, rising faster year-over-year and showing surprising strength in the teeth of increasingly

Some of the largest truckload carriers reported rising third quarter volumes, but not all carriers got into the fast lane.

Old Dominion Freight Line’s third-quarter revenue reached nearly half a billion dollars, a record for the sixth-largest U.S.

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

The executive committee of the American Trucking Associations voted unanimously to seek a U.S.

Less-than-truckload carrier YRC, moving to overhaul its operations after a change in leadership, is consolidating geographic regions and streamlining its management under new president

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.

Increases in truck and intermodal volume and pricing pushed C.H.

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica said he’s not ready to say how Congress will “aggressively oversee any attempts” to cut the hours truck drivers c

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