Trucking News

Truck, train and pipeline shipments between the U.S. and Canada and Mexico totaled $65.8 billion in April, a 32.4 percent increase from a year earlier, the Transportation Department reported.

Trucking companies that once kept third-party logistics providers at arm’s length are pulling them in for a closer embrace as they seek new sources of freight.

The average retail price for a gallon of diesel fuel fell back half a penny last week to $2.956 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

FreightWatch International said its security tracking devices helped to recover a truckload of pharmaceuticals that was stolen Friday while a two-person driver team was eating dinner at a truck stop o

ABF Freight System’s labor costs per driver are more than 15 percent higher than those paid by national competitor YRC, and higher than several other less-than-truckload competitors, according t

Freight brokers and truckers are critical partners in today’s supply chains, but that doesn’t always make them a happy couple, especially when accusations of fraudulent re-brokering of fre

Truckload freight demand is slowing, according to the Morgan Stanley Truckload Freight Index.

Truck tonnage slipped 0.6 percent in May, putting a brake on shipping growth after trucking demand reached its highest level of the recovery the month before, the American Trucking Associations said F

Struggling less-than-truckload giant YRC Worldwide said it will sell part of its YRC Logistics operation for $37 million to private equity investor Austin Ventures and partner with that firm on some o

Package carrier FedEx is building a small-package sort and delivery station near Chicago that will be the fifth major facility in that area for its FedEx Ground unit.

Buying Binge Drives Up Box Prices

Con-way Freight is expanding its work for Caterpillar Logistics Services, the logistics arm of heavy equipment maker Caterpillar, to cover trucking in more than half the United States as well as busin

Refrigerated trucking company Stevens Transport ordered 500 heavy trucks from Kenworth Truck, a Paccar subsidiary.

Trucking industry representatives told a House panel the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s latest program needs work on the details.

The nation's largest trucking operator, YRC Worldwide, is forging closer relationships with third-party logistics providers as it tries to rebuild its business.

FedEx planes may be soaring toward higher profit, but the $34.7 billion transportation company’s freight-hauling trucks are struggling to escape losses churned up by higher costs and deep rate d

A steady increase in container traffic is putting pressure on drayage operators at the Port of Virginia, including Wyatt Transfer, a Richmond, Va., port trucker.

Ocean shipping lines and trucking companies must cooperate more closely to move freight efficiently through their customers' integrated global supply chains, a maritime industry leader told trucking e

The start of the peak-shipping season is still more than a month away, but marine terminal congestion in Los Angeles-Long Beach is mounting so rapidly that harbor truckers are in a state of panic.

Truckload carriers are becoming less reliant on brokers as freight volume recovers from the recession, according to a survey by Transport Capital Partners.

A House subcommittee was set to hear testimony Wednesday on new federal truck and driver safety rules expected this year that shippers fear will limit carriers' ability to restore capacity in a growin

The nation’s average retail diesel price climbed 3.3 cents last week to $2.961 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Estes is speeding freight from the U.S. Southwest to Western Canada, launching a three-day service from Texas and Oklahoma to Calgary and Edmonton, Alberta.

Net orders for heavy-duty trucks increased 84 percent year-over-year in May, as truck operators anticipated a stronger shipping peak, said ACT Research.

Last year’s 18.2 percent drop in business logistics spending was a record, according to an annual benchmark report, but it was a record with an asterisk.

Watching containers stuffed with clothing trucked off the docks at the Port of Los Angeles in early June, Wayne Bourne wasn’t much worried about a double-dip recession or economic slowdown.

Sometimes you need to spend money to make money, but that’s proving difficult for YRC Worldwide while the company recovers from massive losses.

YRC Worldwide says it may try to raise funds by issuing new equity shares, but the company is hardly a darling on Wall Street.

Harbor truckers will be able to file drayage vehicle inspection reports, or DVIRs, using either of two electronic systems being rolled out before a June 30 federal deadline.

Congress Reconsiders Liability Limits

DHL Global Forwarding and sister company Danmar Lines are launching a trans-Atlantic expedited less-than-containerload service connecting 19 European ports and New York.

Canadian truckers angry about a reservation system they say is making it difficult to use the ferry linking Newfoundland and the Canadian mainland protested yesterday.

The nation’s highest court will decide whether Alabama can keep collecting a 4 percent sales and use tax on diesel fuel used by railroads, or whether that levy discriminates against rail lines b

A bipartisan Senate bill aimed at defending businesses from fraudulent freight brokering schemes is being backed by independent truckers and freight brokers.

FedEx Freight's losses more than tripled in the fiscal year ending May 31, as steep price discounting in 2009 cut deeply into its earnings, despite market share gains.

FedEx’s net profit reached $419 million in the quarter ending May 31 following a loss a year ago and the company said Monday it expects a recovering global economy and stronger pricing to push e

Truckload capacity is tightening in the U.S. Southeast at a greater rate than other portions of the country, according to Longbow Research.

Pollution from port activities in Long Beach dropped as much as 52 percent in 2009 compared to 2005, according to the port’s latest inventory of pollutants such as diesel particulate matter, nit

Transcore's North American Freight Index slipped 3.2 percent in May from the previous month, after rising 25 percent and 44 percent month-to-month in April and March.

The fifth consecutive week of falling diesel prices brought the national average down 1.8 cents in the week ending June 14 to its lowest point since the middle of March at $2.928 per gallon, the U.S.