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Discover comprehensive trucking news and trends with Journal of Commerce - from trucking LTL to regulation and trucking supply and demand.
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Flatbed’s Heavy Load
William B. Cassidy |
Flatbed trucking has been flatlining.
Trucking News
States Debate Truck Limits
William B. Cassidy |
When heavy snows and frigid weather hit much of the nation in the first two weeks of the year, several states lifted weight restrictions on trucks, some to help endangered crops to get to market and o
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Trucking News
Universal Truckload Buys Three Companies
William B. Cassidy |
Universal Truckload Services rolled out of 2009 with three new subsidiaries acquired in December -- a truckload carrier, a freight forwarder and a logistics operator.
Trucking News
FedEx Freight to Increase Rates 5.9 Percent
William B. Cassidy |
FedEx Freight will raise its base rates 5.9 percent Feb. 1, signaling its retreat from a less-than-truckload price war that cut into profits in the second half of last year.
Trucking News
LTL
Spot Market Trucking Rising, Says TransCore
William B. Cassidy |
Trucking's spot market shot up 11 percent in December from November as freight volumes more than doubled year-over-year, according to TransCore.
Trucking News
YRC Launches Public Campaign to Win Back Shippers
William B. Cassidy |
YRC Worldwide is engaging its competitors -- and the media -- in a fierce battle for freight and customer confidence after squelching fears of a near-term bankruptcy.
Trucking News
LTL
Late 2009 Sales Boost Heavy Truck Production
William B. Cassidy |
Production of heavy trucks will increase 22 percent in the first quarter, as manufacturers work to fulfill the last orders placed by truckers in 2009, ACT Research says.
Trucking News
Arrow Trucking Relaunches Web Site
William B. Cassidy |
Arrow Trucking, which stranded hundreds of drivdrs in an abrupt shutdown Christmas week and filed for bankruptcy protection in the face of a series of lawsuits, relaunched its Web site with a call to
Trucking News
Bank Accuses Arrow Trucking of Fraud
William B. Cassidy |
Arrow Trucking, the flatbed carrier that suddenly closed just before Christmas, entered bankruptcy amid a welter of lawsuits and allegations of fraud from one of its lenders.
Trucking News
Roadrunner Closes Bullet Deal
Thomas L. Gallagher |
Roadrunner Transportation Services this month closed on the acquisition of Bullet Freight Systems.
Trucking News
LTL
Diesel Hits 13-Month High
Thomas L. Gallagher |
The average retail price of diesel fuel soared 8.2 cents last week to a 13-month high of $2.879 per gallon, according to figures from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Trucking News
Henderson Transport Buys Alabama-based Carrier
William B. Cassidy |
In what may be the first acquisition in trucking of 2010, Henderson Transport, a truckload carrier in Bensenville, Ill., bought Towns Transportation, Birmingham, Ala.
Trucking News
LTL
DOE Grants Truck, Engine Makers $115 Million
William B. Cassidy |
Daimler Trucks North America, Navistar and Cummins received more than $100 million in federal grants Monday to improve the fuel mileage of heavy-duty trucks.
Trucking News
Recovery’s Rough Road
William B. Cassidy |
The economic recovery may turn out to be crueler than the recession for trucking companies battered by the worst downturn in decades.
Trucking News
Victory through Team(sters) work
William B. Cassidy |
YRC Worldwide clinched a deal with reluctant bondholders last month with a lot of help from its good friends, the Teamsters.
Trucking News
LTL
YRC Dodges a Bullet
William B. Cassidy |
Forget Times Square.
Trucking News
LTL
Transport Employment Fell in December
John D. Boyd |
U.S. rail and water transport jobs edged up slightly in December, but the larger trucking and air sectors continued to cut back.
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Trucking labor
‘People Need to Eat’
William B. Cassidy |
If any segment of the trucking industry were naturally resistant to recession, it would be food hauling and refrigerated transport.
Trucking News
‘Cautious’ Trucking Rolls Into 2010
William B. Cassidy |
Trucking executives rolled into 2010 hoping business, if not much better, would not be any worse than in 2009. But they aren’t expecting much of a boost early in the year.
Trucking News
Truckload Demand Rising, Morgan Stanley Says
William B. Cassidy |
Truckload demand gained strength in early 2010, with little sign of a post-holiday downturn, according to Morgan Stanley.
Trucking News
Central Transport Expands in Detroit
William B. Cassidy |
Detroit billionaire and bridge-owner Manuel "Matty" Maroun may oppose a government-owned span linking the Michigan city and Canada, but that won't stop him from setting up trucking operation
Trucking News
LTL
Old Dominion Hikes Rates
Thomas L. Gallagher |
Old Dominion Freight Line will raise its rates an average of 4.4 percent, effective Jan. 18, the regional less-than-truckload carrier said Friday.
Trucking News
LTL
YRC Pays Wicks $800,000 to Stay
William B. Cassidy |
YRC Worldwide paid one of its top executives $400,000 this week as part of a non-competition and confidentially agreement that includes an additional $400,000 in incentive pay if he stays with the com
Trucking News
LTL
Latest Winter Storm Disrupting Some Freight
John D. Boyd |
The latest in a series of strong winter storms is disrupting all forms of surface freight transportation, as rivers and rail switches ice up and some Interstate highways have closed at times from heav
Rail News
Maritime
Air Cargo
Trucking News
ILWU Backs Long Beach Clean Trucks Program
Bill Mongelluzzo |
A Port of Long Beach advertisement promoting its clean-truck plan to neighboring communities attracted the support of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 13.
Maritime
Trucking labor
Penske Acquires Bright Truck Leasing
Thomas L. Gallagher |
Penske Truck Leasing entered into an agreement with the Bright family to acquire Bright Truck Leasing & Bright Distribution. Financial terms were not disclose
Trucking News
LTL Pricing to 'Firm' Later in 2010, Report Says
William B. Cassidy |
Less-than-truckload pricing, which took a sharp turn downward toward the end of the 2009, will begin to firm by the second half of 2010 regardless of whether YRC Worldwide is still in business, invest
Trucking News
LTL
Survey Finds YRC Battling to Keep Customers
William B. Cassidy |
Fewer shippers are considering diverting freight from YRC Worldwide in the wake of its successful debt-for-equity swap, but a significant percentage of shippers are still shifting volume to other carr
Trucking News
LTL
Copeland to Leave Quality Distribution
Thomas L. Gallagher |
Dennis Copeland is leaving his position as senior vice president and chief administrative officer at Quality Distribution.
Trucking News
YRC Chief Says Bankruptcy 'Not on Our Radar'
William B. Cassidy |
Shippers are returning to YRC Worldwide "pretty aggressively," Chairman and CEO William D.
Trucking News
LTL
NAFTA Trade Grew for Fifth Month in October
Thomas L. Gallagher |
Surface trade between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement partners Canada and Mexico grew for the fifth consecutive month in October and showed improvement in the rate of dec
Trucking News
Rail News
Truckers Seek Summary Judgment in Clean-Truck Case
Bill Mongelluzzo |
The American Trucking Associations filed its final response brief with the U.S.
Trucking News
U.S. Toll Goes Up at Bridge to Canada
Courtney Tower |
The first stage of an 86 percent increase in toll rates for trucks went into effect Tuesday on the U.S. side of the Blue Water Bridge, the third busiest U.S. international commercial land crossing.
Trucking News
Analyst Sees Truck 'Underbuy' Tightening Capacity
William B. Cassidy |
A "systematic underbuy" of heavy trucks is tightening truckload capacity and eventually will push rates higher, R.W. Baird & Co. analyst Jon A. Langenfeld said.
Trucking News
LTL
Diesel Surges Near 12-Month High
Thomas L. Gallagher |
Retail diesel prices surged last week across the country, soaring an average of 6.5 cents to $2.797 per gallon, less than a penny off the highest level in more than a year, according to the U.S.
Trucking News
YRC to Take Debt Swap to Shareholders
William B. Cassidy |
Fresh from winning the bondholders it needed to complete its debt-for-equity swap, YRC Worldwide is preparing to take the swap to its shareholders for their approval.
Trucking News
LTL
Environmental Groups Sue Long Beach
Bill Mongelluzzo |
Environmental groups are suing the Port of Long Beach and the American Trucking Associations, claiming a settlement involving the port’s clean trucks program is illegal and should be thrown out.
Maritime
Trucking News
Hearings Scheduled on Trucker Hours of Service
William B. Cassidy |
Federal regulators will start hearings around the country this month on plans to rewrite controversial hours-of-service rules for truck drivers.
Trucking News
LTL
Trucking labor
Schneider Shortens Its Haul
William B. Cassidy |
With their striking orange-on-black color scheme, Schneider Regional trucks are the reverse image of Schneider National’s familiar black-on-orange units.
Trucking News
Catching Their Breath
Bill Mongelluzzo |
If drayage operators had any question that polluting trucks have no future in California, clean-trucks plans implemented at the port and state levels at the start of the new year should dispel a
Port News
Maritime
Trucking News
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