Trucking News

The Los Angeles Harbor Commission Thursday agreed to extend its contract with the Gephardt Group lobbying firm to promote legislation in Washington that is favorable to the port's clean-truck program.

Membership is growing in a worldwide organization dedicated to stopping cargo crime.

Freight transportation was on the upswing through the summer, as indicated by the U.S. Department of Transportation’s closely watched Transportation Services Index.

Landstar System suffered a 38.7 percent decline in net profit in the third quarter, to $20.1 million, on a sharp drop in shipping demand across its trucking and brokerage businesses, the truckload ope

Weber Distribution is expanding a consolidation program that worked for a segment of its market to a broader base of customers.

The Evans Network of Companies acquired the container drayage, domestic truckload and brokerage assets of two southeastern U.S.

Surface transportation should show modest growth through 2010 and then take off strongly in 2011 with double-digit growth in volume, a Schneider Logistics executive said Tuesday.

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Retail diesel jumped an average of 1.8 cents last week to $2.60 per gallon after falling for five weeks in a row, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

A key part of a busy truck route in Ohio is going to get a makeover, years ahead of schedule, thanks to the federal stimulus program.

Quality Distribution sold one of its tank cleaning subsidiaries to a company formed by its former president.

YRC Worldwide won an extension of a deadline by which it must have and maintain $100 million in liquidity — but only for a few weeks — as it strives to avoid bankruptcy.

If the average consumer were asked to name an innovative industry using dynamic new technology, odds are trucking wouldn’t leap to the tip of the tongue.

Intermodal equipment providers who fear the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Dec.

The key to delivering innovation is the ability to adapt quickly to changing circumstances, making technology that provides real-time support increasingly critical, says Mike Naatz, executive vice pre

Social networking sites and services such as Facebook and Twitter are beginning to change the way carriers interact with a new generation of shippers.

YRC Worldwide's Canadian subsidiary, YRC Reimer, formerly known as Reimer Express, closed its operations in Edmonton, Alberta, after Teamster employees there refused wage and benefit reductions, the

The world’s largest truck manufacturer is guardedly optimistic that sales in North America and Europe have hit bottom and will improve, but expects the greatest growth in coming years from the d

Trucking industry leaders gathered in Las Vegas today voted to support a bill that would ban cell-phone text messaging by motorists and truckers alike.

The agency that regulates trucking safety plans to offer carriers access to an electronic database of drivers’ inspection and accident records starting in December.

The top Republican on the Senate’s Transportation and Infrastructure subcommittee predicted that truckers, manufacturers and other key industry groups will push for a higher federal motor fuels

Truckload demand is improving across parts of the United States, helping turn around a decline in pricing and raise prospects for higher rates in coming months, an investment analyst said in a report

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YRC Worldwide realigned its senior management for the second time this year, naming Tim Wicks chief operating officer Oct. 5 and promoting or reassigning other key executives.

The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association supports a ban on cell-phone texting while driving, but wants better enforcement of existing laws on inattentive or negligent driving by all motorist

The average retail price of diesel slid 1.9 cents last week to $2.582 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Challenger Motor Freight, one of the largest truckload carriers in Canada, acquired the special commodities business of Sandrock Specialized Carriers, a Heidelberg, Ontario-based company specializing

The state of the economy and government regulation top a list of trucking industry concerns released by the American Transportation Research Institute.

Refrigerated trucking company FFE Transportation Services signed a four-year contract valued at more than $3 million for fleetwide deployment of ReeferTrak, a monitoring and management service provide

As Congress considers two bills related to highway safety, shippers are urging lawmakers to pass the one that allows heavier trucks for what they say will be safer, greener, more efficient shipping.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is coming under as much fire in the Senate as the woman nominated as the next FMCSA administrator.

With an Oct. 13 liquidity deadline approaching, YRC Worldwide is cutting deeper into its work force and seeking new leeway from lenders.

Struggling with years of financial losses and shipper defections, same-day delivery company Velocity Express is operating under bankruptcy protection while it restructures and hands most of its stock

Orders for new heavy duty trucks jumped in September in the first expansion in more than a year, according to a preliminary report from FTR Associates.

Freight-related transportation jobs fell moderately in September, the Labor Department reported, but falling employment levels in key customer groups could signal more trouble ahead for the shipping s

Echo Global Logistics, which has grown into a $200 million company in less than five years, launched an initial public offering Friday expected to bring nearly $80 million to the third-party logistics

After an absence of almost a century, electric trucks are poised to make a comeback on city streets in the U.S.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on Wednesday kicked off a two-day Distracted Driving Summit in Washington, D.C.

Surface trade with Canada and Mexico sank 28 percent in July compared with a year earlier, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics of the U.S. Department of Transportation reported Sept. 30.