Trucking News

Two of the biggest names in trucking software were combined today as TMW Systems acquired Innovative Computing for an undisclosed price.

Surface trade between the United States and its partners in the North American Free Trade Agreement completed a cycle in September of 12 consecutive months of steep declines. U.S.

The Southern California clean-truck program by Jan. 1 will have reduced diesel pollution in the harbor by 80 percent, a full two years ahead of schedule.

The Teamsters union launched a campaign to organize 1,500 workers at the Challenger Group, one of Canada's largest privately owned trucking companies.

Diesel fell 1.2 cents to $2.775 per gallon last week, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Freight volume is increasing faster than anticipated at truckload giant Landstar System, which told analysts today it expects positive year-over-year load count growth in the fourth quarter.

Warren Buffett isn’t the only investor interested in transportation companies.

Approaching cargo interests at the National Industrial Transportation League’s annual convention in Anaheim, Calif., this month, Ronald D. Widdows spoke with a bit of a swagger.

The fog of war is descending on the battle over port trucking.

Locomotive engineers in Canada launched a strike against Canadian National Railway early Nov.

Montana-based Jim Palmer Trucking is coming out of bankruptcy protection under new owners and an apparent new plan for expansion.

Same-day and next-day delivery specialist Eastern Connection is expanding in its home state of Massachusetts, opening a facility in Norwood, outside Boston.

YRC Worldwide sold the dedicated contract carriage piece of its logistics business to Greatwide Logistics Services yesterday for $34 million.

The average retail price for diesel slipped three-tenths of a cent to $2.787 per gallon last week, the third consecutive week of slim declines, according to the U.S.

Truck tonnage declined in October, but it was the smallest drop in 2009, said the American Trucking Associations.

In recent years, as domestic air cargo capacity dried up and freighter operators such as Kitty Hawk went belly up, the air cargo trucking sector went from strong to stronger.

Annual Christmas sales are always huge events for freight-hauling industries.

Swift Transportation chief Jerry Moyes, turning aside downbeat views of the transportation economy, said the truckload giant is seeing gains in shipping and improving balance between supply and demand

Trucking companies complain of too many tractor-trailers chasing too little freight, and carriers such as Swift Transportation, the nation’s third-largest truckload carrier, are scouring excess

Truckload carrier operations gained some momentum in the third quarter, thanks to a pickup in shipments and cuts in capacity.

Even as President Obama unveiled plans to hold a “jobs summit” to help fight the nation’s 10 percent-plus unemployment rate, concern was festering over how his administration has app

A new study by the Federal Railroad Administration says Class I freight railoads boosted their fuel efficiency by 21.5 percent from 1990 to 2006, aided by adoption of more fuel-efficient locomotives a

FedEx Ground, the small-package ground delivery unit of FedEx, this week opened a distribution facility in Medley, Fla.

Intermodal drayage specialist C&K Trucking, Chicago, acquired competitor Transportation Made Simple, expanding the size of its fleet by one third to approximately 600 trucks and adding muscle in s

The trucking industry is still mired in the recession and likely won’t pull out until some time next year, according to a widely accepted index of conditions in the market.

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters said no talks are under way with ABF Freight System that would result in concessions for its members.

Trucking companies that are surviving in today's treacherous economic environment will be well positioned to prosper when traffic begins to rebound next year, according to carrier and shipper executiv

The National Labor Relations Board has tapped the last of $41 million in back pay owed to about 2,000 Michigan Teamsters, closing what may be the federal agency’s largest back pay order on recor

Not all motor carriers see cutting excess capacity as the best road to higher rates and improved profitability.

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The average retail price for a gallon of diesel fuel slipped 1.1 cents during the past week to $2.79, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Truckers moving hazardous materials between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, will have to take a long detour beginning Nov. 23.

Trucking company A. Duie Pyle is expanding its warehousing operations, opening a 243,000-square-foot warehouse in Westfield, Mass.

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Fatigue “is one of the most insidious issues in the transportation industry,” and more must be done to fight it, said Deborah A.P.

Volvo Group will sell its half interest in a Chinese truck manufacturer six years after joining the partnership.

FedEx Freight, the less-than-truckload division of FedEx, agreed to a partnership with Vision Industries to test a tractor powered by the hydrogen/electric hybrid Tyrano drive train.

Deep discounting slashed less-than-truckload rates in the third quarter as carriers tried to knock the nation’s largest LTL trucker, YRC Worldwide, out of business. No one delivered that kn

Truck buyers put the pedal to the metal in October, sending Class 8 truck sales zooming 104 percent from September and 117 percent over October 2008.

Having redrawn its business model over the years, J.B. Hunt Transport Services now appears intent on redrawing the nation’s intermodal map.