Trucking News

Heavy truck and engine maker Navistar International reported a 55 percent drop in net earnings for its fiscal fourth quarter that ended Oct. 31, to $39 million from $86 million a year earlier.

YRC Worldwide is asking the Teamsters union and pension fund managers for more time to restructure the trucking company’s troubled balance sheet.

Ryder System agreed to acquire Carmenita Leasing, a truck leasing and rental business in Santa Fe Springs, Calif., for an undisclosed price.

In the third increase in as many weeks, the national average retail price for diesel fuel last week climbed 1.7 cents to $3.248 per gallon, the highest price since October 2008, when the average price

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The public debut of CSA 2010 sent up red — or orange — flags across the trucking industry and among shippers, freight brokers and even on Wall Street.

The ports of Baltimore and Virginia hunger for the cargo that moves through the Port of New York and New Jersey to and from points beyond the densely populated region around the East Coast’s big

Truckload carriers have high hopes for 2011, but how high those hopes fly depends on how much weight a company carries.

The South Carolina State Ports Authority said it will participate in a regional program to help owners replace older drayage trucks, including the approximately 262 pre-1994 models that visit the Port

Trucking bankruptcies fell 18.5 percent from a year ago in the third quarter to 330 closings, taking 10,685 trucks out of the market, according to Avondale Partners.

Swift Transportation is back on Wall Street after raising $806 million in its initial public offering, selling 73.3 million shares of stock for $11 each.

A federal judge's ruling dismissing many lawsuits involving FedEx Ground contractors likely won't affect broader battles over the classification of transportation workers at ports and on highways, a t

ABF Freight System's withdrawal from an industry bargaining group in 2007 undermined its lawsuit against rival trucker YRC and the Teamsters union.

A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit ABF Freight System filed against rival trucker YRC Worldwide and the Teamsters aimed at blocking a labor agreement central to YRC’s survival.

The American Trucking Associations launched a Web site on Thursday dedicated to efforts to keep the federal government from changing truck driver hours of service rules.

A federal judge will hear arguments Dec. 16 on whether to dismiss a lawsuit that could reshape unionized trucking and threaten the survival of YRC Worldwide.

Canadian trucking giant TransForce closed its $248 million acquisition of Dynamex Tuesday, outbidding transportation investment group Greenbriar Equity.

Transportation analyst John Larkin of Stifel Nicolaus is downgrading his stock ratings of three major intermodal companies, to 'hold' from 'buy,' citing their current valuations and the potential for

A federal judge's ruling for FedEx in a series of lawsuits claiming the company misclassified package drivers as independent contractors strikes a serious blow to attempts to have the workers labeled

A total of 6.2 million trucks crossed the eastern U.S.-Canada border so far in 2010, with growth across all 10 bridges.

Retail diesel prices shot up another 3.4 cents last week to hit $3.231 per gallon, the second multi-year record in two weeks as the average cost climbed past October 2008 numbers.

The federal government's Web site detailing trucking company safety results was temporarily disabled Monday as a new safety program triggered huge demand.

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Trucking company safety scores in five performance categories are available online following the Dec. 12 launch of the Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010, or CSA.

The Port of New York and New Jersey will implement an infrastructure fee on all cargo to pay for intermodal rail and road infrastructure and security.

Swift Transportation is raising the ante in its initial public offering to $1 billion as the truckload business gains traction.

The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington cleared the Department of Transportation to launch its CSA 2010 trucking safety program as early as this weekend, denying a request for a delay.

Letters submitted as evidence in court indicate the Teamsters union was willing to help ABF Freight System purchase struggling YRC Worldwide earlier this year.

Celadon Group secured a $50 million, five-year revolving credit facility from Bank of America, giving the truckload carrier increased liquidity and financing flexibility.

Shippers appear dedicated to getting ahead of potential truck capacity constraints in 2011.

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FedEx Freight is speeding less-than-truckload service between U.S. and Canadian markets, cutting transit times in more than 500 lanes, the company said.

The former president of Con-way Freight, John Labrie, joined truckload giant CRST International as head of its core dry van division CRST Expedited.

National labor organizations intensified their attack on the classification of harbor truck drivers as independent contractors with the release Wednesday of the report, "The Big Rig: Poverty, Pollutio

Dynamex received a higher offer from an unnamed bidder, jeopardizing its $237.8 million acquisition by transportation investor Greenbriar Equity Group.

Midwestern truckload carrier Continental Express is expanding in the Southeastern U.S. by purchasing Carolina Refrigerated, Gaffney, S.C. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Diesel fuel prices jumped an average 3.5 cents across the United State over the past week to $3.197 per gallon, the highest point diesel prices have reached in more than two years, according

The Teamsters union at one point pressured ABF Freight System to buy ailing rival YRC Worldwide, ABF Freight System revealed on a company Web site.

FedEx Ground will raise its rates by a net average of 5.9 percent Jan. 3, but a fuel surcharge reduction will blunt the increase to 4.9 percent.

ABF Freight System's attempt to overturn YRC Worldwide's historic wage-cutting agreements with the Teamsters union is headed to federal court Dec. 16.