Trucking News

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will hold webinars on its Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010 initiative Dec. 3 and Dec. 10, at 3:30 p.m. EST.

During her Senate confirmation hearing, then-nominee Anne S. Ferro heard an earful about the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s record enforcing truck safety rules.

Intermodal marketing companies, middleman firms that arrange either all-highway or combined rail-truck shipments for clients such as factories or retail stores, used trains for a greater share of thei

Shippers and carriers expect there will be sufficient capacity in the domestic transportation system to handle the modest growth in traffic that will occur in the coming year, but eventually there wil

Smaller logistics operators and freight brokers outperformed their larger counterparts in the third quarter, but a less-than-robust recovery is squeezing profit margins at all 3PLs, said the Transport

Average truckload rates fell 9.4 percent in the third quarter despite sharp cuts in capacity compared to last year, carrier Covenant Transport said in a securities filing.

Kenan Advantage Group, the nation’s largest bulk over-the-road fuel transporter, is expanding its territory and business in the Pacific Northwest by acquiring the assets of fuel hauler Reinhard

The city of Los Angeles has spent more than $1 million in lobbying and litigation to defend the port’s clean truck concession requirements, according to a Southern California attorney.

The output of the freight transportation industry declined 0.5 percent in September from August, blunting a three-month long recovery, according to a report Thursday from the U.S.

FedEx says it expects no more audits from the Internal Revenue Service now that the agency for the second time dropped a look at potential penalties in the company’s classification of parcel division

Shares of trucking company Celadon Group began trading on the New York Stock Exchange Nov. 10, after the Indianapolis-based company shifted its listing from the Nasdaq stock market.

At a time when many trucking companies are hard up for cash, Werner Enterprises says it will deliver $90 million in special dividends to shareholders next month.

To fully equip a Bronx, N.Y., station as the company’s first all-hybrid facility, FedEx Express ordered 51 new hybrid vehicles from Azure Dynamics.

Old Dominion Freight Line will speed service through its Northwest gateway into Canada starting Nov. 9, connecting more than 65 Old Dominion service centers to Edmonton and Calgary, Canada.

National Refrigerated Trucking, a truckload and less-than-truckload refrigerated trucking company, opened a new LTL lane to Georgia and Florida.

The average price of diesel fell for the first time in five weeks, dropping seven-tenths of a cent to $2.801 per gallon in the week ending Nov. 9, according to the U.S.

Bruce J. Carlton took charge at the National Industrial Transportation League just as the economy began its worst contraction in decades.

YRC Worldwide is taking a giant leap over the chasm of bankruptcy, offering bondholders up to 95 percent of its common stock in return for wiping more than $500 million in debt from its books.

The U.S. Senate confirmed Anne S.

The United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware approved Nov. 3 the sale of time definite regional carrier Velocity Express to private investor Comvest Investment Partners.

Less-than-truckload carrier Con-way says it moved toward "more aggressive" price discounting in the third quarter than it normally uses and started hiring back workers to cope with tonnage g

Heavy truck sales surged in October, rising 117 percent year-over-year and 104 percent from September, as freight volumes showed signs of improving and carriers began a last-minute round of truck purc

A broad group of retailers and other shippers called on the mayors of New York and Newark, N.J., to withdraw their support for changes in federal law that would allow local regulators to bar independe

After losing $143.2 million in the second quarter, Quality returned to profit in the third quarter and improved upon last year’s third quarter profit.

Freight volume in trucking’s spot market rose 10 percent in October, said TransCore, which reported the first year-over-year increase this year in the TransCore Freight Index.

The National Mediation Board proposed an amendment to its Railway Labor Act rules to provide that, in representation disputes, a majority of valid ballots cast will determine the craft or class repres

Con-way profit fell by two-thirds in the third quarter from $40.5 million a year ago to $13.5 million in the three months ending Sept. 30.

YRC Worldwide stock tanked on Wall Street this week as the company launched a debt-for-equity exchange one analyst compared to a “controlled bankruptcy.”

William J. Logue, a veteran FedEx Express executive, will become president of FedEx Freight, the express giant’s $4.6 billion trucking arm, Dec. 1.

The retail price of diesel rose seven-tenths of a cent last week, the fourth straight week of increases in the national average, according to the U.S.

YRC Worldwide will launch a debt-for-equity exchange offer this week that could wipe more than $500 million in debt from the financially-troubled trucker's books.

An Internal Revenue Service decision to reverse a previous assessment that FedEx had misclassified some package delivery drivers marks a strong victory for the carrier and its use of independent contr

DSV, Scandinavia’s biggest trucking and logistics company, reported a steep decline in third quarter earnings but said it gained market share in its key ocean, air and land transport sectors.

The board of YRC Worldwide named Chief Operating Officer Timothy A. Wicks president of the trucking giant last week, a vote of confidence in Wick's handling of the company's financial crisis.

Stronger international lift and a pickup in next-day shipments took some of the sting out of the recession for UPS in the third quarter.

Rules that govern how many hours a day truck drivers may spend behind the wheel may change again, perhaps before August 2011, as the federal agency that regulates motor carriers reconsiders whether tr

Operating without its own equipment on the road appears to make C.H. Robinson Worldwide a tough target for the economic downturn.

YRC Worldwide says it is gaining new customers even as it continues to lose some shippers, leading to "stabilization" of its customer base and improved yields, top company officials say.

YRC Worldwide’s regional carrier group reported a $293,000 profit, its first since the second quarter of 2008, largely driven by a turnaround at former USF regional carrier Holland, said YRC Wor

Trucking giant YRC Worldwide, fighting to stay out of bankruptcy, cut its net loss to $158.7 million in the third quarter but saw its volume and revenue fall sharply as shippers apparently moved busin