Trucking News

As Chief Financial Officer Sheila Taylor prepares to leave YRC Worldwide, pressure mounts on the company’s board to find a successor to William D. Zollars.

The replacement of aging tractors and trailers, deferred for more than two years during the recession, is ramping up in 2011, according to ACT Research.

The Department of Transportation is giving the public more time to comment on a proposal that would require electronic onboard recorders in most heavy trucks.

A key measure of truckload demand jumped 18.9 percent week over week in early March, signaling tightening capacity as the nation and the economy warm up.

Refrigerated trucking company Brown Line is expanding in the Pacific Northwest by purchasing Port Side Trucking, a refrigerated motor carrier in Kent, Wash.

Restructuring and refinancing at Quality Distribution reduced a $180.5 million net loss in 2009 to $7.4 million in 2010, while revenue climbed to $686.6 million.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will stop using the term "Alert" to describe trucking company scores that break thresholds in CSA safety categories, following a settlement between the

The two organizations that have wrestled over the unionization of harbor drayage companies for the past few years promised attendees at the 11th annual

Logistics operator Dunavant Enterprises acquired Sea Lane Express, a trucking and drayage company operating in the U.S. Southeast, its second acquisition in four months.

The American Trucking Associations wants the Obama administration to stop the opening and inspection of hazardous materials shipments unless those shipments are believed to pose an "imminent danger" o

Electric truck maker Smith Electric Vehicles U.S. raised $58 million in a series of stock sales. The proceeds will help the company pay for its acquisition of Smith Electric Vehicles UK.

The White House said Monday it was considering its options as to whether it should open the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve as unrest in the Middle East sent prices for crude oil and refined prod

YRC Worldwide Chief Financial Officer Sheila Taylor will leave the troubled trucking giant March 31 as it attempts to recruit new leadership and restructure its finances.

Khalid Ali Aldawsari studied more than English and chemical engineering in his two years as a U.S. college student.

The cargo carriers typically travel in a convoy, a line of trucks and escort vehicles, figuring there’s strength in numbers.

One way shippers and truckers can mitigate their risk to cargo theft in Mexico, security analysts say, is to develop strong relationships with key law enforcement officers and agencies.

The debate over truck driver hours-of-service is bumping up against shipper docks, as some truckers and an influential member of Congress are calling for limits on the time shippers and receivers can

Trucking hired 11,000 workers in February, accounting for half of a monthly gain in transportation and warehousing jobs, according to federal employment statistics.

Transportation costs could rise as much as 20 percent if the Department of Transportation cuts the time truck drivers may spend behind the wheel, the National Retail Federation says.

UPS agreed to pay a $1.3 million fine and to hire independent inspectors for its trucks in New York in a settlement with the attorney general there.

Business interests hailed a U.S.-Mexico agreement on cross-border trucking that is sure to be

The U.S. and Mexico reached a preliminary agreement on resolving a cross-border trucking dispute that led to $2.4 billion in Mexican tariffs on U.S. goods.

Heavy truck orders slowed 11 percent in February, but remained high enough to keep truck plants humming well into 2011, according to ACT Research.

Americans took to the road in increasing numbers last year, taking advantage of relatively low fuel prices as increased confidence in the economic recovery.

Nearly 150 members of Congress urged the Obama administration to drop its proposed hours-of-service rule and keep the current work rules for truck drivers.

Truckload capacity slackened slightly in the last two weeks of February but remains significantly tighter than in recent months, according to Longbow Research.

Kuehne+Nagel reported 2010 net profit grew 28.7 percent from the previous year on sharply higher ocean and air freight volumes and gave an upbeat assessment of prospects for 2011.

Trucking passes on to customers substantially less of the total cost of transportation than competing modes, and that distorts competition, according to a report by the Government Accountability Offic

Average retail diesel prices last week across the United States rocketed 14.3 cents to a national average of $3.716 per gallon, the biggest one-week surge in more than two-and-a-half years, according

YRC Worldwide said it reached an agreement with key stakeholders on a comprehensive restructuring plan, meeting a Feb. 28 deadline.

The American Trucking Associations is raising the ante in its challenge to the science behind proposed new truck driver hours of service rules with a statement that studies linking length of sleep tim

Universal Truckload Services increased its operating revenue 20.4 percent to $605.9 million last year, aided b

The critical feature of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration proposal on hours-of-service isn’t necessarily the potential reduction from 11 to 10 hours.

Shippers don’t need a road map to know where truckload rates are going, but they may need an altimeter. Truck pricing is moving up and is likely to climb higher.

There’s a new yardstick for capacity among the many figures the shipping world uses to measure available space: hours.

Port authorities in Virginia, South Carolina and Georgia are joining the Coalition for Responsible Transportation, giving the

The American Trucking Associations urged the White House to tap domestic energy sources, such as offshore oil deposits, as rising oil prices increased fuel costs.

U.S. authorities say a Saudi national arrested in Texas for allegedly plotting terror attacks was caught shipping explosive chemicals through domestic trucking networks.

New customers and higher shipping volume pushed total revenue to $426.4 million at Echo Global Logistics in 2010, a 64.3 percent increase over the previous year.

Advocates of the unionization of harbor truck drivers opened a new line of attack with a bill in the California Legislature that would define drayage truck drivers as employees of the companies that a