Trucking News

Implementation of the employee-driver mandate in the Port of Los Angeles clean-trucks plan may not begin at the end of 2011 as planned. That appears to be the outcome of a ruling by U.S.

Knight Transportation is defying conventional wisdom in the truckload industry by adding capacity to its tractor-trailer fleet, but it’s doing so with a twist.

A high volume of ballots is likely to extend vote counting in a Teamsters election crucial to the survival of trucking giant YRC Worldwide into the weekend.

The JOC Week in Review for October 29 gives you the highlights of top news stories from this week, and also a preview of the Nov. 1 edition of the Journal of Commerce.

Commercial truck trailer orders nearly tripled from a year ago in September and rose 19 percent from order levels in August, according to ACT Research.

John Roberts will replace Kirk Thompson as president and CEO of J.B.

Southeastern trucker Saia increased its revenue 6 percent year-over-year in the third quarter but saw its net income slide as operating costs increased.

The property and equipment of bankrupt truck body and trailer maker Thiele Manufacturing will be auctioned Nov. 30 by Maas Companies in Windber, Pa.

Covenant Transportation's profit slipped from the second quarter but the truckload carrier remained in the black with gains in total revenue and freight revenue.

Canadian shippers are paying higher truckload rates and cross-border and less-than-truckload prices are rising as well, the Canadian General Freight Index says.

YRC Worldwide's lenders gave the company some financial wiggle room as the clock ticks down on a critical Teamster vote on wage and benefit concessions.

Vitran, a Toronto-based transportation and supply chain firm, increased profit 566 percent to $2 million in the third quarter as higher revenue and reduced debt payments eliminated an operating loss t

Tight truckload capacity, higher rates and new customers helped Celadon Group roar back from the depths of the recession in the third quarter of 2010.

Old Dominion Freight Line increased its net income 13.5 percent from the second quarter and 132.3 percent from a year ago to $24.4 million in the third quarter.

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The average retail price of used trucks is creeping up, putting more pressure on truckload carrier capacity, according to an ACT Research study.

Trucking interests in Southern California appear to have scored a temporary victory Monday when U.S. District Court Judge Christina A.

Retail diesel prices slipped back six-tenths of a cent last week to an average of $3.067 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Kenneth Churchill, a trucking pioneer who shut down his 68-year-old company during a historic Teamsters strike, died Oct. 20 at the age of 92.

Stimulus spending by the Department of Transportation reached $21.2 billion as of Oct.

The Department of Transportation faces a Nov. 4 deadline to respond to a challenge to a rule mandating the use of electronic onboard recorders by some truckers.

A slower-paced economy is evident in third quarter freight volumes, but not in trucking profits.

Although only a tiny percentage of truck drivers test positive for illegal drug use, those who do increasingly test positive for the use of drugs such as marijuana, PCP, amphetamines and opiates, acco

When it comes to complying with truck safety regulations, the devil is in the details. At many trucking companies, only the devil may know those details.

When a senior Environmental Protection Agency official last week classified the agency’s new truck engine and fuel standards as “historic,” she was right on target.

Ryder System's earnings leaped 40 percent to $39.7 million in the third quarter on a 5 percent increase in revenue to $1.32 billion, the Miami-based company said.

Knight Transportation rode strong truckload demand to higher profit in the third quarter, while building its truck count up to a record high of 3,912 tractors.

Net orders for heavy trucks rose sharply in September from August and from September 2009, defying sales expectations and a slowing economy.

Truckload carrier Heartland Express improved its profitability in the third quarter, reporting what looks almost like a railroad operating ratio: 77.2.

North American shippers may be on the verge of a second intermodal revolution.

YRC Worldwide is reportedly prepared to shut down subsidiary New Penn if Teamsters at the regional carrier reject proposed wage and pension concessions.

YRC Worldwide cleared another hurdle to survival by renewing its $300 million asset-backed securitization, or ABS facility, before an Oct. 31 deadline.

Trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line is expanding an overseas partnership aimed at expediting less-than-containerload freight shipped to the U.S. from China.

The nation's former top truck safety watchdog is turning to the law -- not as an enforcer but a practitioner.

As many as half of the driver qualification files motor carriers keep are incomplete or inaccurate, according to a survey of trucking customers by LexisNexis.

Profit and revenue leaped at Werner Enterprises in the third quarter, even as the freight surge that lifted the trucking industry in the second quarter ebbed.

Diesel prices inched upward seven-tenths of a cent last week to an average of $3.073 per gallon nationwide in their third consecutive weekly increase, according to the U.S.

The sluggish pace of economic recovery tops truckers’ long list of critical issues despite four straight quarters of economic growth and a strong surge in freight demand this year, the American Transp

YRC Worldwide expects to narrow its losses in the third quarter on the back of higher tonnages and revenue per load, the nation's largest trucker said Monday.