Trucking News

UPS Freight is cutting transit times between Western Canada and U.S. markets by at least one day, speeding cross-border shipments from Vancouver.

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Intermodal services provider Hub Group acquired Domestic Transport, a Pacific, Wash.-based drayage company that delivers containers in the Pacific Northwest.

After acquiring the regional trucking operator USF for $1.37 billion in May 2005, YRC Worldwide Chairman, President and CEO William D.

Logistics technology provider Descartes Systems Group is acquiring software specialist Telargo to add new mobile information capabilities to trucking operations systems.

A little acquisition by a very big company sent a jolt through the U.S. trucking industry on June 1.

With one of North America’s most dramatic bridges as a backdrop, Michigan Gov.

Now that negotiations with the Teamsters union, lenders and others with a financial stake in the company are largely completed, YRC Worldwide’s most crucial negotiations may be with its shippers

Shippers expect truckload capacity to keep tightening over the next year, but believe the less-than-truckload market will be more stable, according to a recent survey.

A recent survey of shippers had some good news for YRC Worldwide: Only 6 percent of those surveyed plan to reduce freight shipped with the trucking giant as it restructures to avoid bankruptcy, and 17

Ryder System is banking on expansion. The $5.1 billion truck lessor closed on a $900 million revolving credit facility with its banking group Thursday.

GSC Logistics, an Oakland, Calif.-based transportation provider and 3PL, expanded into the Pacific Northwest by acquiring Best Way Trucking, a port trucker in Seattle and Portland, Ore.

The National Industrial Transportation League is urging the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration not to change the truck driver hours-of-service rules.

The Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index extended its slide in May, falling 0.9 percent following April's 0.5 percent decline and an “exceptional”

Following an acquisition and East Coast expansion, trucking company Roadrunner Transportation Systems is reorganizing its management team.

President Obama is keeping open the option of drawing oil out of the U.S.

Two national trucking groups called on the Department of Transportation to begin researching the benefits of crashworthiness standards for heavy trucks.

Ryder System expanded its truck leasing operations in the United Kingdom by acquiring British heavy truck leasing firm Hill Hire for approximately $252 million.

Freight volume carried by for-hire transportation companies in April fell 1 percent from the previous month but was up 3.7 percent from April 2010, the Transportation Department reported.

The board of directors at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce elected Iowa trucking industry executive John Ruan III as chairman for a one-year term.

Geodis Wilson strengthened its position in the U.S.

Con-way Truckload, looking to hire more truck drivers in the Western U.S., reopened a driver orientation site in Phoenix that closed during the recession.

Old Dominion Freight Line, a less-than-truckload carrier, is driving deeper into drayage, opening a container drayage facility in Mobile, Ala.

Shippers are bracing for higher transportation costs, even as the economy slows, according to a second-quarter survey of more than 2,000 logistics managers.

German logistics giant Deutsche Post DHL purchased Standard Forwarding, a five-state less-than-truckload motor carrier in East Moline, Ill.

The State Assembly will most likely not address a bill that would classify drayage truck drivers at California ports and intermodal rail yards as employees, although it could be taken up next year.

Freight transportation employment was virtually flat last month while a closely watched survey of non-manufacturing activity showed a sharp drop in import growth.

Leaders from Teamsters union locals around the country will review a tentative national car-haul agreement when they meet in Nashville June 13.

Truckload capacity appears to be tightening again, after loosening in April, according to a key measure of industry equipment supply and demand.

YRC Worldwide is once again contributing to Teamsters pensions, but at much lower level than it did before suspending those contributions in July 2009.

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Transportation and logistics giant Con-way will send $200,000 to help tornado survivors rebuild in Joplin, Mo., the home of its Con-way Truckload division.

The average price of diesel fuel fell for the fourth straight week in the period ending May 31, sliding 4.9 cents to $3.948 a gallon, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said.

Roadrunner Transportation Systems acquired M. Bruenger Trucking, a truckload carrier with headquarters in Wichita, Kans., for approximately $10.6 million.

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The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will delay the release of its controversial new truck driver hours-of-service rules until October.

Truckload giant Swift Transportation expects to raise its contract rates 4 percent this year, the CEO of the $2.9 billion trucking operator said Friday.

Despite winter storms and rising energy costs, publicly owned trucking companies gained ground in the first quarter, buoyed in part by an expansion in manufacturing.

Trucking technology is approaching a crossroads as safety regulations and economic necessity drive more trucking companies to purchase and plug into everything from electronic onboard recorders to net

Landstar System is increasing its number of business capacity owners, the owner-operators who operate trucks for the $2.3 billion transportation company.