Trucking News

Fedex doubled its net profit in its quarter ending Aug. 31 to $380 million on strong expansion in international express shipping, but the company issued a forecast for slower global economic growth.

The number of people killed in motor vehicle crashes dropped to 33,808 in 2009, the lowest number since 1950, says the Department of Transportation.

The railroad industry sharply rejected criticisms of railroad finances by a new report from the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee and warned that efforts to slap new regulations on

The Surface Transportation Board is poised to mount a three-pronged regulatory reform effort that could expand its activism on railroad-shipper disputes and implement some measures that are in the sta

YRC Worldwide will pay $10 million to settle racial harassment claims at two Chicago-area terminals, the U

A national rail plan envisioned by the Obama administration must be preceded by shipper-supportive changes in rail competition rules either through a change in law or by regulatory action, said Sen.

The second-highest official at the Department of Transportation told senators that increasing the share of freight hauled by railroads "could be a cost-effective approach to meeting our stated st

Swift Transportation's planned public offering got a boost Sept. 15 when Moody's Investors Service raised the truckload carrier's ratings outlook to positive.

Short-haul and dedicated trucking operator James Brown Trucking purchased Tennessee-based Schrader Trucking, expanding its capacity and reach.

Truckload carriers are reporting increasing demand for freight services and higher rates this month, a sign there may still be life in trucking's fall peak season.

Two shipper and trucking groups are merging to marshal their efforts to raise heavy truck weight limits to 97,000 pounds through legislative action on Capitol Hill.

The average price of diesel fuel last week edged up 1.2 cents to $2.943 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, following four consecutive weeks of falling prices.

Part of the Commodity Classification Standards Board’s mission is to re-examine classifications when the characteristics of goods may have changed, triggering changes in the transportation profi

Wall Street might be bearish on the economy, but truckers are bullish on Wall Street.

The Teamsters union is telling workers at YRC Worldwide that it will only support concessions sought by the financially troubled trucking company if they come with a “comprehensive restructuring

Truckload spot rates are “flattening out” heading into the fall after rising sharply in the second quarter, according to a trucking industry executive, but longer-term contract rates are likely on the

Truckload carrier Knight Transportation is generating enough profit to update its fleet but sees few current possibilities for growth through acquisition, the company’s chief financial officer s

ABF Freight System is waging a two-front campaign to cut its labor costs by negotiating with the Teamsters about contract concessions and lobbying Congress for legislation to ease the burden unionized

When the Surface Transportation Board stripped antitrust immunity from truck freight classification in 2007, hope spread that a less adversarial, more cooperative carrier-shipper relationship would em

Shippers can expect expedited general rate increases from less-than-truckload carriers, trucking officials at an investor conference in New York said.

The National Association of Manufacturers, a major industrial lobbying group in Washington, D.C., launched an advertising campaign to head off new energy taxes after

Freight brokers and logistics companies increased sales in the second quarter, despite tight capacity, the Transportation Intermediaries Association said.

Trucking giant YRC Worldwide is asking Nasdaq for more time to comply with its minimum share value rule and avoid delisting from the stock exchange.

Dutch express and logistics company TNT this week launched the first fully electric delivery vehicle fleet in China.

The average price of diesel fuel fell for the fourth time over the past week as businesses headed into the busier fall shipping season with fuel prices virtually unchanged from the spring.

President Obama said he wants long-term transportation legislation to include a permanent infrastructure bank that can make investments outside regular state formulas, and to put his passenger rail pr

Industry groups were scrambling for details on how the administration expects to develop the $50 bil

A routine truck inspection in Maine turned up unexpected cargo -- buckets of cash worth more than $1 million.

President Obama proposed to spend $50 billion to "jumpstart" construction of roads, railways and airport runways, the White House said, and pair it with "a long-term framework to reform

A federal judge’s ruling upholding the concession requirements in the Port of Los Angeles clean-trucks program hardly brings the case closer to resolution.

Last year’s less-than-truckload price war is still claiming victims, but not those once expected to fall. Two of Con-way Freight’s top officers, President John G.

In a new sign that trucking companies are investing in new capacity again, net heavy truck orders jumped 8.3 percent in August from July and were up 16.8 percent from a year ago, according to prelimin

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration shut down an Alabama trucking company involved in an accident that killed 11 people in March.

A small Virginia trucking operator is getting larger through acquisition, taking advantage of opportunities for expansion in the economic recovery.

Logistics provider UTi Worldwide earned net profit of $18.9 million in the second quarter, up 60 percent from $11.8 million a year ago.

The Port of Los Angeles says it will phase in the requirement for employee drivers in port trucking now that the country's largest port has approval from a federal judge to implement portions of the c

A trucking official says a judge’s ruling against owner-operator drivers at the Port of Los Angeles was just one skirmish in “a war” the industry is fighting with officials at the po

Trucking costs for shippers in Canada rose in June for the second straight month but extended a 14-month streak of year-to-year declines, according to the Canadian General Freight Index.

The Congressional Budget Office is drawing the attention of transportation policy experts with an upbeat estimate that the nation’s Highway Trust Fund should be able to cover its projected spending ne

Schneider Logistics will sell its freight forwarding and customs house brokerage business to Norbert Dentressangle, a $3.5 billion trucking and logistics operator.