Trucking News

The recession is driving more business to Daimler Truck Financial USA as banks tighten the credit lines of trucking customers.

When Daimler executive Juergen Rochert wants to know how the trucking industry is faring, he simply looks at how quickly his customers pay their bills.

Bruce Davenport operates a farm near Kingston, N.Y., where he grows sweet corn, peppers, cantaloupe, kale, broccoli and other produce that he sells to local supermarkets and wholesalers in Albany.

Mexico will no longer accept a U.S. pilot program as a way of allowing Mexican trucks to operate in the U.S., a senior Mexican diplomat said Friday.

Stronger pricing and freight volume pushed Landstar System's third-quarter revenue up to $623 million, a 24 percent increase from a year ago.

After 14 years of drilling, Swiss engineers Oct.

Intermodal trucker J.B. Hunt Transport Services increased its profit 30.5 percent in the third quarter from a year ago, reporting net earnings of $52.2 million.

For-hire transportation carriers in the U.S. domestic market handled 0.6 percent less volume in ton-miles in August than in July, the Transportation Department said.

U.S.-based heavy equipment maker Caterpillar is expanding its logistics and manufacturing operations overseas with new ventures in Australia, South Africa and China.

Integrated Freight is expanding its trucking operations in the Midwest by acquiring M. Bruenger Trucking, Wichita, Kan., for approximately $11 million.

Clean-air regulations affecting heavy-duty trucks and 53-foot trailers in California will continue in force no matter what happens in the Nov.

Diesel prices soared 6.6 cents last week to $3.066 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

A dissident Teamster who started her career as a warehouse worker and truck driver is challenging James P. Hoffa for the top job in the Teamsters union.

Trucking employment fell slightly in September, ending a six-month growth streak, according to preliminary data from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.

President Obama called Monday for sweeping investment in infrastructure, putting new urgency to his pledge of more funding and jobs through a broad national plan for transportation.

Whoever YRC Worldwide picks as its next chairman will have to answer to a higher authority: the Teamsters union.

Choptank Transport works with some of the largest food shippers in the nation, but most of its customers are small businesses looking to expand into new markets.

Refrigerated trucking isn’t what it used to be, and that’s a good thing for Choptank Transport, a third-party specialist in temperature-controlled transportation.

In WTO Rulings, It’s China, 2; US, 0

William D. Zollars will end his career at YRC Worldwide as he began it, with the reorganization of a trucking giant struggling to adapt to a changing market.

There are some temperature-controlled commodities even a specialist such as Choptank Transport won’t touch.

In a matter of months, William D. Zollars is expected to vacate the chairman’s office at YRC Worldwide, leaving his successor to radically restructure the trucking enterprise.

Canadian shippers saw overall ground transportation costs rise 3 percent month-to-month in July, according to the latest Canadian General Freight Index.

YRC Worldwide's chief operations officer left his union employees no room for doubt about the importance of ratifying wage

UPS bought 130 hybrid electric vehicles to add to its growing alternative-fuel vehicle fleet.

DB Schenker completed the integration of the recently acquired Masped units with Hungarocargo and Romtrans Hungaria into Schenker Kft.

Truckload demand is rising although it is still below its peak of mid-June, and capacity remains tight on the West Coast, according to Longbow Research.

New orders for heavy trucks jumped 21.6 percent in September from the previous month, FTR Associates reports.

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Diesel prices across the United States jumped 4.9 cents last week to $3 per gallon, the first time since May 24 the average nationwide price has reached that threshold, according to the U.S.

A New Jersey-based retail distributor is shutting down after losing its sole remaining client, JC Penney.

The American Trucking Associations endorsed legislation for a Goods Movement Trust Fund financed by a 12-cent-a-gallon increase in diesel fuel taxes and is encouraging Congress to pass a similar gasol

As some of the largest ocean carriers prepare to abandon their practice of providing chassis at U.S.

Despite steady growth in hiring since February, the number of workers employed by for-hire trucking firms lags the level of a year ago and is far down from payroll numbers two years ago, an analysis o

One complicating factor in determining how chassis are managed is the way the economics of today’s equipment management fits into terminal and intermodal space.

Less-than-truckload carriers are firing rate increases aloft like flares, hoping to secure higher pricing that will keep them afloat in an uncertain economy.

Greenbriar Equity Group will buy same-day domestic ground and air freight specialist Dynamex for approximately $210 million.

UPS Freight will raise its non-contract rates 5.9 percent Oct. 18, becoming the fourth major less-than-truckload carrier to ask shippers for a general rate increase.

Trucking giant YRC Worldwide completed a 1-25 reverse stock split, boosting its per share value from about 25 cents Thursday to above $6 Friday morning.

Shares of YRC Worldwide plunged more than 20 percent in trading on Wall Street Thursday after an industry analyst urged investors to "get out of the stock today" when the troubled trucking giant said