Trucking News

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

Political turmoil in the Middle East threatened world supplies of oil and pushed the price of crude oil up 6 percent in a single day’s trading Tuesday. Retail diesel prices in the U.S.

Clarence L. Werner, the founder of Werner Enterprises, is stepping down as chairman of the $1.8 billion trucking company. Werner, a former truck driver, founded the carrier with one truck in 1956.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is pursuing a three-pronged strategy to truck safety as it tries to drive truck accident fatalities lower.

The top management of U.S. 1 Industries plans to acquire the trucking operator, spending about $10 million to buy out other shareholders.

Tom Adamski is a trucking executive with 34 drivers carrying 101 pieces of identification allowing them to shuttle containers in and out of terminals at the Port of New York and New Jersey.

The road is shifting for Roadrunner Transportation and other less-than-truckload carriers diversifying to capture more of their customers’ freight.

With a sweeping new surface transportation plan in his 2012 budget proposal, President Obama is setting out the ambitious multiyear vision much of the transportation world had been awaiting from the W

A revolution in technology, from cloud computing to mobile phone apps, is enabling trucking’s evolution in an increasingly multimodal era.

The heavy-haul and flatbed specialist is offering owner-operators a 1 percent pay increase to use smart phone technology to complete their driver logs.

Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., wants shippers to speed truck drivers through their gates or pay the consequences for excessive detention time during loading or unloading.

Proposed changes to truck driver hours of service rules would raise transportatio

An attorney for the coalition that won two court victories over recent hours of service rules for truckers says the most recent proposed rule a step in the “right direction,” but it may no

Schneider National would need to increase driver pay by about $3,000 per year "to keep commercial drivers whole from a W-2 perspective" if proposed changes in hours of service rules take effect, an ex

Truckers in Colombia will stop blocking roads in Bogota but will maintain their strike against a government plan to deregulate freight rates.

Congress is taking steps to complete legislation that gives operating authority to the Federal Aviation Administration, after 18 attempts to approve the last reauthorization, which expired in 2007.

The safety benefits of proposed changes to truck driver hours of service rules have been "wildly overstated," the American Trucking Associations claims.

Truckers will have a last chance to make their case against proposed changes to truck driver hours of service rules Thursday as the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration hosts an all-day listeni

The Cleveland-Cuyahoga Port Authority is shifting its plans from a freight-focused ferry service across Lake Erie to Canada to focus on passenger operations.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will take comments on its proposed truck driver hours of service rules until March 4 and hold what may be the last public "listening session" on its pro

Truckload carriers are seeking rate hikes ranging from 5 to 10 percent as annual contracts come up for renewal, Wall Street firm Longbow Research reports.

England Logistics acquired TMS Technologies of Alma, Mich., giving the subsidiary of trucking giant C.R. England access to new logistics technologies and tools.

President Obama's proposed budget would breathe new life into a cross-border trucking agreement with Mexico, allocating $50.

Colombian truck drivers, on strike for more than two weeks, are blocking major roadways in the capital city of Bogota, causing a complete standstill during rush hour and forcing residents to walk to w

The White House is seeking a 10 percent increase in motor carrier safety funding in its 2012 budget proposal as part of a $4

FedEx is forecasting its earnings in the fiscal quarter ending this month will come up to 40 percent below earlier projections because of the severe impact

The price of diesel across the United States climbed an average of 2.1 cents last week to $3.534 per gallon in the 11th straight weekly increase, according to the U.S.

A year after the trans-Pacific slack season turned into anything but that, harbor truckers in Southern California are bracing for the slowdowns that come at marine terminals operating with reduced gat

The less-than-truckload industry is shrinking its way toward profitability as carriers struggle to emerge from three years of decline.

C.H. Robinson Worldwide, the nation’s largest truck freight broker, says the domestic shipping market’s momentum from 2010 is extending into this year.

Freight shipping demand showed resilience in the fourth quarter, as consumers opened their wallets wider and manufacturing activity picked up, pressing retailers to restock inventories.

Rising costs and a $39 million tax bill led to a $40.2 million loss for less-than-truckload carrier Vitran in the fourth quarter and a $42.9 million loss for the year.

Con-way Freight hired trucking veteran John P. Burton to help boost the $3.1 billion carrier's less-than-truckload yield.

Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., Wednesday introduced legislation to reduce truck pollution at container ports -- and to make it easier for the Teamsters union to organize harbor truck drivers.

Spot market truckload freight volume shot up 62 percent year-over-year in January, according to the TransCore North American Freight Index, setting a new record.

Record-breaking winter storms across much of the country may have chilled trucking activity in January, but they didn't freeze the economic recovery.

New business from acquisitions and market share gains pumped up revenue and earnings at hybrid trucker Roadrunner Transportation Services last year.

In the 10th consecutive week of climbing prices, retail diesel jumped 7.5 cents last week to an average of $3.513 per gallon across the country, according to the U.S.

Truck capacity at a group of six large truckload carriers appeared to stabilize at the end of 2010, after dropping a cumulative 17 percent since the end of 2006.

A preliminary report shows heavy truck orders rose 320 percent year-over-year in January, as motor carriers traded in aging pre-recession truck equipment.