Trucking News

UPS Freight is speeding freight across the Canadian border by stretching its two-day delivery network from Toronto and Montreal as far south as St. Louis, Mo., and Atlanta.

John Ruan, the Iowa businessman who turned a one-truck venture into a transportation, real estate and banking empire before donating millions of dollars to fight multiple sclerosis and world hunger, d

Retail diesel prices fell last week in their fourth straight weekly decline amid falling oil prices. In the week ending Feb.

The trucking industry is adding its voice to a coalition demanding tighter federal regulation of trading in commodity derivatives.

YRC Worldwide is even getting money from the federal government these days, but what the country’s largest trucking operator really needs is more revenue from shippers.

YRC Worldwide is using everything from online advertising on The Wall Street Journal’s Web site to offering coupons for return customers to win shippers.

Cash flowed more slowly through supply chains in January, reflecting longer payment periods among suppliers, transporters and customers in the first weeks of 2010, according to the latest Supply Chain

A recovering economy and reinvigorated trucking industry will increase demand for heavy- and medium-duty trucks late in 2010 and in 2011, says ACT Research, Columbus, Ind.

The California Air Resources Board will most likely give over-the-road truckers more time to comply with a rule designed to reduce diesel emissions from heavy-duty vehicles.

Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern states are beginning to lift emergency orders and travel restrictions imposed during yesterday's blizzard.

YRC Worldwide cleared a financial hurdle Thursday by eliminating $70 million in debt not included in its $464 million debt-for-equity swap in December, giving the carrier still greater stability in th

Logistics and trucking business The Dependable Companies acquired West Coast trucking company Matheson Fast Freight, expanding its stake in the California less-than-truckload market.

The second major snowstorm to hit the Mid-Atlantic region in a week is paralyzing traffic in Pennsylvania, a hub state for freight moving to and from the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states.

Air freight and expedited less-than-truckload carrier Forward Air earned a profit of $6.4 million on revenue of $118 million in the quarter ended Dec. 31, the company reported.

Cross-border trucking company Vitran drove close to break-even in 2009, narrowing its net loss more than 94 percent to $4 million.

Schneider National will expand its pool of regional truckload drivers more than 600 percent this year, hiring an additional 2,100 drivers to fuel its short-haul business.

Truckload demand climbed in the first week of February, with flatbed and refrigerated trucking showing the most strength, Morgan Stanley Research reports.

Three days after a massive winter storm struck the mid-Atlantic region, freight transportation systems were still trying to recover to normal operating levels.

Ports, cities and labor unions are sharply at odds not only with each other but within their own ranks over efforts to overhaul regulation of harbor trucking, and the rifts will make it even harder fo

Like most shippers, Wal-Mart Stores is looking for a delivery guarantee from its suppliers. Unlike most others, the world’s largest retailer now is demanding one.

Less-than-truckload carriers can’t put 2009 far back in the rear-view mirrors fast enough.

Truckload carriers, anticipating a gradual increase in shipments this year after a long drought, are calibrating capacity to regain some lost pricing leverage.

YRC Worldwide’s liquidity should be sufficient to see it through 2010 and into 2011, absent a “downturn in industry or company fundamentals,” said Jon A.

YRC Worldwide’s liquidity fell steeply throughout the year, as the company’s cash and cash equivalents plummeted by two-thirds throughout 2009.

YRC Worldwide narrowed its losses last year and in the fourth quarter, but fierce competition and insecurity over its debt-for-equity swap hurt its business, company officials said today.

Trucking and logistics giant Con-way reported losses both for the fourth quarter and the full year, as overcapacity and aggressive pricing cut into its trucking income.

Retailers and other trade groups appealed for support Thursday from the U.S. Department of Transportation in their case against turning regulation of harbor trucking over to local port authorities.

Truckers are asking Washington for protection from Wall Street speculators who they say artificially drive up the cost of oil and fuels.

Surging freight volume in the fourth quarter boosted sales at logistics giant C.H. Robinson Worldwide, but falling rates offset volume increases in many of its transportation services.

Ryder System net profit dropped a sharp 69 percent to $61.9 million in 2009, as it closed its money losing supply chain management operations in South America and Europe.

Dedicated Transport Holdings is expanding into liquid bulk trucking by acquiring All Star Transportation, a carrier with offices in Clearwater, Fla., and New Castle, Del.

Cummins reported its most profitable fourth quarter in its 91-year history, with engine sales jumping 12 percent to $2.17 billion on surging U.S. truck sales last fall.

Greatwide Logistics Services Chairman Leo Suggs replaced Raymond B. Greer as CEO of the third-party truck brokerage and logistics firm.

A second consecutive weekly drop brought the average retail price of diesel down 5.2 cents to $2.781 per gallon, the lowest price in five weeks since it hit $2.732 per gallon at the end of December, a

Pressure on prices drove profit down 32 percent in 2009 for trucking, brokerage and intermodal transportation provider J.B. Hunt.

Stronger freight shipping helped Werner Enterprises hold a fourth-quarter decline in its profit to 3.5 percent, as operating revenue fell 10.4 percent from a year ago.

With more freight flowing into its trailers, Knight Transportation is buying 370 new tractors from Volvo North America.

Placing an immediate ban on text messaging by truck drivers last week, the Department of Transportation sent a message easy to read even without a cell phone.

Grocery chains seeking greater control over inbound inventory and manufacturers pursuing more sustainable shipping are making business hotter for refrigerated freight haulers.

It used to be that simply picking up and delivering freight was enough to keep every “motor carrier of property” in the land fat and happy.