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Bridgestone Commercial Solutions will hike the price of truck and bus tires and tire retreads by 11 percent on average, the company said.

The average price of diesel fuel fell for the eight time in the last nine weeks, sliding 3.8 cents a gallon to the lowest point since Feb. 28, the U.S.

For Lucas Oil, a private fleet is more than a means of transportation. It’s also a rolling laboratory.

Excess capacity may be building on the high seas, but it evaporates quickly once freight reaches dry land. Unlike container shipping lines, U.S.

Terminal operators in Los Angeles-Long Beach face the conundrum of having to run up to five night and weekend gates each week to prevent gridlock in the harbor, all while losing money every day they o

When Lucas Oil transportation chief Marty Martin needs a truck, he usually doesn’t call a trucking company. He goes out to his dock or calls one of his own drivers.

Those large blue boxes with the familiar APL logo that started appearing on U.S. highways and railroads in May aren’t ocean containers, though it’s tough to tell the difference.

UPS Freight will take a 6.9 percent general rate hike Aug. 1, a move that could signal a stronger across-the-board increases in less-than-truckload pricing.

Baird Equity Research is dropping its coverage of YRC Worldwide, as the trucking giant heads toward a financia

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is adopting a five-year strategic plan that looks beyond truck and bus companies to include shippers and brokers in attempts to improve highway safety.&

Mexico may increase the $2.4 billion in punitive tariffs it places on select U.S. goods if the Obama administration fails to implement a cross-border trucking program.

Looking to calm concerns over moves to allow Mexican trucking companies to operate in the United States, U.S.

Opponents of a new cross-border trucking program with Mexico fear it will draw thousands of Mexican truckers into the U.S., threatening American jobs.

Shippers are paying more to move truckload freight as both large and small trucking companies hike rates, according to a survey by Transport Capital Partners.

YRC Worldwide’s stock took a wild ride on Wall Street this week, almost tripling in value on Monday on sudden and unexplained trading before apparent short-selling sent shares falling back more

Smaller shippers plan to increase transportation spending this year despite economic uncertainty, according to a customer survey conducted by Saia.

The average price of diesel fuel across the U.S.

Kombiverkehr, Europe’s biggest intermodal operator, reported traffic and revenue rose to near record levels in 2010 but warned infrastructure bottlenecks will slow growth this year.

The decline in truck tonnage accelerated in May, as the seasonally adjusted for-hire truck tonnage index dropped 2.3 percent

Federal truck safety penalties against motor carriers jumped 23 percent in 2010, according to data from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

It may take federal investigators more than a year to determine why a truck driver smashed into an Amtrak train in Nevada Friday, killing at least six people.

Bradley S. Jacobs is buying into transportation in a big way.

No one, it seems, is happy with less-than-truckload pricing.

The Los Angeles-Long Beach clean-trucks programs are nearing the end of their first phase, and despite many controversies, the initiatives exceeded all expectations and have set new standards for redu

The American Trucking Associations hailed the release of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve but urged the White House to expand offshore drilling.

Intermodal infrastructure development in the United States is at a juncture that could lead to the development of a third generation of intermodal systems and services.

The driver turnover rate at large truckload fleets rose to an annualized rate of 75 percent in the first quarter of 2011, the American Trucking Associations said.

FedEx Freight returned to profitability in its last quarter after completing the merger of its long-haul and regional less-than-truckload operations.

FedEx increased revenue 12 percent in the quarter and 13 percent in the fiscal year that ended May 31, reporting total annual revenue of $39.3 billion.

Logistics and supply chain management solutions company Ryder Systems received three anti-terrorism certifications this week for its logistics operations in the Asia and trans-Pacific regions.

A new cross-border trucking program with Mexico could be in place within two months, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administrator Anne S. Ferro said.

Payouts to states by the Department of Transportation for construction projects under the 2009 stimulus law totaled just below $29 billion as of June 10, the Obama administration said on its Recovery.

CEVA Logistics will lease more than 1,000 trailers from Ryder System, bringing its total U.S. trailer capacity to more than 4,700 units, the company said Monday.

For more than 80 years, Kane Is Able has been a family-owned and family-run trucking and logistics business, hauling freight from Boston to Washington, D.C.

Roadrunner Transportation Systems is running down more than one road.

Less-than-truckload carriers are broadly dissatisfied with LTL pricing models, but not at all optimistic about changing to a new method for matching prices to freight.

A private investment group is spending $150 million to take over ownership of freight broker Express-1 Expedited Solutions and installing lead investor Bradley S. Jacobs as the chairman and CEO.

A key weekly measure of trucking capacity rose last week to a near three-year high, indicating the availability of truckload equipment continues to tighten.

Average diesel prices across the United States edged upward 1.4 cents a gallon in the week ending June 13, ending a five-week slide that has pushed fuel prices back below $4 a gallon in most of the co