Trucking News

Trade using surface transportation between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement partners Canada and Mexico soared 19.5 percent from January 2009 to January 2010 in the largest

FedEx Express today unveiled plans to test its first all-electric parcel delivery vans, plugging two of four test trucks into its Los Angeles-area fleet in June.

Teamsters General President James P.

Slipping an average of seven-tenths of a cent across the country, the price of diesel ended a five-week climb at $2.939 per gallon Monday, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Increased truckload freight demand is showing up in surging trailer sales, says ACT Research.

Con-way Freight and TNT are expanding their trans-Atlantic partnership to include shipping U.S. exports to Europe, targeting freight shipments weighing more than 150 pounds.

More trucking company failures and higher truckload rates may be coming sooner than many shippers think.

Trucking executives are worried about a driver shortage, but some drivers may be more worried about keeping their jobs.

The less-than-truckload sector is yielding to the demands of yield, carrier executives insist, turning from price-cutting aimed at rapidly gaining market share to rebuilding profit.

When it comes to measuring productivity at marine terminals, The Tioga Group has some advice: Look to the gates, not the acres.

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Truck tonnage increased 2.6 percent last month, compared with February 2009, according to the American Trucking Associations’ advance seasonally adjusted index.

Heavy truck and engine maker Navistar is bringing Menlo Worldwide Logistics in to help manage its domestic as well as its global supply chain, thereby expanding their partnership to cut the manufactur

Forwarder UTi Worldwide swung to a $1.5 million net profit in its fourth fiscal quarter ended Jan. 31 from an $89.8 million loss in the same period a year earlier.

The value of YRC Worldwide’s stock climbed nearly 20 percent yesterday, rising from 45.5 cents to 56 cents a share on the Nasdaq stock exchange.

A business-backed coalition is pressing the House of Representatives to act quickly on pension funding reform before April deadlines that affect defined benefit plans.

President Obama remains opposed to raising federal fuel taxes while the economy is trying to recover despite calls in Congress to increase those fees to fund new legislation, said Deputy Transportatio

The Department of Transportation’s second-highest official told senators that DOT’s preference for freight shipping is keep goods on waterways and rail as much as possible, getting them aw

YRC is simplifying pricing for expedited less-than-truckload freight as it tries to entice new customers and win back freight transferred to other LTL carriers.

A coalition of employers, labor unions and lawmakers is pressing Congress for “temporary pension funding relief” that would allow companies to extend the deadline for fully funding their d

Speaking at a trucking company in his home state, Sen.

Turnaround specialist Atlantic Street Capital sold its same-day delivery business, Fleetgistics, to Harbour Group, a St. Louis-based holding company.

Bankrupt flatbed carrier Arrow Trucking owes creditors nearly $100 million and has assets of only $8.5 million, documents filed in U.S. bankruptcy court in Oklahoma show.

Logistics provider Geodis said it is in talks to acquire the northern and southern European divisions of Giraud, the European road transport company, and hopes to win regulatory approval for the deal

The national average price of diesel fuel in the United States climbed for the fifth consecutive week to its highest level in 17 months, increasing 2.2 cents last week to $2.946 a gallon, the U.S.

Heavy truck maker Navistar International saw its profit plunge 64.6 percent to $17 million in its most recent quarter, as sales dropped 5.4 percent to $2.8 billion.

C. Bean Transport, a flatbed and truckload carrier, closed its trucking operations last week and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

The food industry teaches logistics executives unique business lessons. For instance, you shouldn’t let cows’ udders drag in the snow.

New York-New Jersey port officials say persuading diverse labor, environmentalist and employer groups to unite behind a clean-trucks program was like herding cats.

An increase in trucking company advertising underscores how quickly demand for truck drivers is growing, says a transportation advertising executive.

The Teamsters union is considering whether what was good for YRC Worldwide would be good for one of that trucking company’s largest competitors, ABF Freight System.

CRST Malone is doubling the referral bonus it pays drivers who bring other drivers to the flatbed carrier.

The stimulus law is currently supporting 10,000 active transportation construction projects, and will further ramp up this spring, said Vice President Joseph Biden.

FedEx Freight’s losses nearly doubled in the quarter ending Feb. 28, despite a surge in revenue and shipments in the three-month period.

Heavy truck sales rose sharply in February, with net orders climbing 20 percent both from January 2010 and February 2009, ACT Research said today.

YRC Worldwide’s regional group of carriers reduced its losses 14.2 percent to $126.7 million in 2009 but saw its operating ratio rise 2.1 percentage points as revenue dropped.

As the Teamsters mull concession talks with ABF Freight System, YRC Worldwide is still trying to get some members to accept concessions approved last year.

YRC Worldwide's truckload and expedited subsidiary, YRC Glen Moore, narrowed its losses by 25 percent in 2009, reporting an operating loss of $8.7 million.

YRC Worldwide had a net loss of $622 million last year on $5.3 billion in revenue, the company said yesterday in its 10-K annual report.

Severe winter storms froze the economic recovery in February, driving the Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index down 0.7 percent.