Trucking News

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

ABF Freight System is holding a "dialogue" with the Teamsters union over pension liabilities and labor costs, the company's top executive said yesterday.

Wal-Mart Stores will charge suppliers penalties for late deliveries starting Feb. 1, according to a letter to suppliers.

Landstar System is shutting the trailer door on 2009, after reporting a 36.5 percent drop in profit and a 24 percent slide in sales.

Arkansas Best's ABF Freight System lost $32.4 million in the fourth quarter, battered by a weak economy and fierce price competition among less-than-truckload carriers.

President Obama said Wednesday that increasing exports and construction of infrastructure will be among the ways the U.S. economy will recover from the recession.

Old Dominion Freight Line rolled out of 2009 with a few scratches, dings and dents but with a profit margin that's still the envy of the less-than-truckload industry.

The American Association of Port Authorities will not join some of its largest members in seeking greater local regulatory authority over harbor trucking.

The partnership labor and environmentalists forged at California ports is moving up the supply chain to protest Toyota's plans to shift some U.S. production to Japan.

Truckload carrier Marten Transport earned a profit of $4.3 million on operating revenue of $128.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2009.

Truckload carrier Celadon earned less than last year in the quarter ended Dec. 31, but demand began to pick up as the weak U.S. economy started to grow again.

A ban on cell-phone text messaging by truck drivers imposed today should be extended to all motorists, said the president of the American Trucking Associations.

The Department of Transportation's ban on cell-phone texting by truckers is just the first of several actions expected this year that will tighten federal truck driver regulations.

The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association supports a ban on texting by truck drivers, but isn't happy with how the Department of Transportation imposed it.

Truck and bus drivers will be banned from sending text messages over cell phones while driving, the Department of Transportation said Tuesday.

Retail diesel prices dived 3.7 cents to $2.833 per gallon last week, the U.S. Energy Information administration reported Jan. 25.

Truck tonnage hit its highest peak since the depths of the recession in December, but may be more moderate in coming months, the American Trucking Associations said.

Battling for shippers, YRC Worldwide is offering a no-fee, money-back standard service guarantee promising a 100 percent refund if goods don’t arrive on the scheduled day.

This year’s heavy-duty trucks may be the cleanest, most advanced and most expensive models ever to hit U.S. highways, but to manufacturers, they’re already old hat.

Shipper efforts to reduce transportation costs and meet sustainability goals are driving changes in carrier networks.

With 2010 contract bidding in full swing, one shipper has advice for his fellow shippers: “Help the good carriers out.”

The trucking companies that succeed in the new decade may take lessons from their oldest competitors.

“We’re seeing business activity improving, and supply and demand are beginning to come back into balance,” the co-chairman of the Chattanooga, Tenn.-based truckload carrier said.

Trucking companies and their customers, parched by a three-year decline in freight shipping followed by a recession that amounted to a depression in consumer demand, are eager for any sign that econom

Truckers should be green with envy at the pricing power their oceangoing counterparts are beginning to wield.

Like the first few raindrops after a long drought, the freight rate increases ocean and surface carriers are beginning to nail down are not enough to slake their thirst.

Shipments of commercial trailers hit a 32-year low in December while reaching their highest point in 2009, said ACT Research.

YRC Worldwide will release fourth-quarter financial results Feb.

The number of people killed in accidents involving heavy trucks declined 12 percent in 2008, the latest year for which complete figures are available.

Arkansas Best will take a $64 million charge in the fourth quarter because of impairment to the value of goodwill at its less-than-truckload subsidiary, ABF Freight System.

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters urged federal regulators at a hearing to scrap a regulation that increased the number of hours truckers can drive.

The American Trucking Associations wants federal regulators to add more flexibility to truck driver hours of service rules, but not to cut the daily driving limit of 11 hours (

Diesel prices slipped back nine-tenths of a cent last week after a three-week surge. The national retail average fell from $2.879 to $2.87 per gallon as of Jan.

Truckload pricing must rise alongside freight volume as capacity tightens and higher costs bear down on truckload carriers, says veteran trucking executive Pat Quinn.

In terms of freight volume, truckload carriers are doing better than many analysts expected in early 2010, thanks to a strong finish to 2009.

The head of the Transportation Intermediaries Association says the group could accept a 10-fold increase in bonds required for licensed freight brokers in exchange for stronger regulation of the licen

UPS is adding 245 new delivery trucks powered by compressed natural gas to its fleet in Colorado and California, expanding its use of CNG vehicles more than 20 percent.

YRC Worldwide regional subsidiary Holland reduced transit times on cross-border lanes linking Toronto and the U.S. Midwest, cutting a day from transit times in some lanes.

The American Trucking Associations is suing the Department of Transportation in an attempt to force it to declare what supporting documents trucking companies must keep to prove their employees comply

Con-way Freight is speeding service by a full day in some lanes by cutting transit times to 460 U.S. destinations.