Trucking News

As crude oil futures took a steep dive last week, the price of diesel responded quickly, falling 2.1 cents to $2.601 per gallon on average, according to the U.S.

YRC Worldwide is continuing an executive restructuring alongside “workforce adjustments” as it attempts to stave off bankruptcy and return to profitability.

A coalition of shipper and carrier groups, heating up the war of words over the Port of Los Angeles clean-trucks plan, issued a point-by-point rebuttal to claims environmental groups are making as the

Trucking giant YRC Worldwide is cutting deeper into its workforce and winning new leeway from lenders as it strives to avoid bankruptcy.

Coming up short isn’t a bad thing for a truckload carrier, if you’re talking length of haul.

Washington supporters of trucking and shipper interests are girding themselves for a stealth attack from adversaries that want to push legislation through Congress that gives port authorities the righ

Douglas G. Duncan, the trucking veteran who became president and CEO of FedEx Freight when the company was created in 2001, will step down Feb. 28, 2010. FedEx did not name a replacement.

Truck tonnage climbed for the second month in a row in August, boosting the American Trucking Associations’ advance seasonally adjusted For-Hire Truck Tonnage Index another 2.1 percent over a si

A Los Angeles Superior Court decision this week confirmed that motor carriers are correct in classifying harbor truck drivers as independent contractors rather than direct employees.

Same-day package company Velocity Express filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection from its creditors today, announcing plans to restructure under a new owner, ComVest, in a debt-for-equity swap.

A three-month extension of current federal highway spending programs cleared the House of Representatives Sept.

The House of Representatives broke into a sharp fight over extending federal highway program spending by three months, as Republican leaders tried to force backers to pledge they would take a motor fu

The chairman of a key Senate subcommittee today told trucking industry official Anne S.

Estes Express Lines is picking up the pace of competition by slicing a day from transit times for freight moving from 26 terminals in its less-than-truckload network.

The New York Times joined labor and highway safety interests opposed to the nomination of state trucking association leader Anne S.

Kenny Nova joined Aljex Software as vice president, corporate development.

Douglas G. Duncan, the executive who has led FedEx Freight from its inception, will retire next February, the company announced.

Retail diesel was selling for an average of $2.622 per gallon across the country last week, down 1.2 cents according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

In its race to avoid bankruptcy, YRC Worldwide is jumping hurdles like a horse running a steeplechase.

Truckload carrier Schneider National will close two fuel, maintenance and operations facilities in Seville, Ohio and Green Bay, Wis. on Nov. 17.

FedEx reported a $181 million profit Thursday for its fiscal quarter ending Aug.

Same-day delivery and logistics provider Dynamex cut back operations and administrative staff and built its sales force to hang on to profits in its fourth fiscal quarter.

With the Sept.

As crude oil futures stabilized, retail diesel prices responded by falling for the second consecutive week.

The Teamsters union, already fighting legal and legislative battles to organize FedEx workers in the United States, said Monday it is launching a “large-scale campaign” to bring FedEx work

Congress must extend a crucial program due to expire in two weeks to fund highway and other transport projects around the nation, a freight stakeholders’ coalition said, but should also approve

Con-way Truckload launched a regional program to deliver shipments within less than 600 miles.

Motor carriers that want trucks out of their yards and off their books are starting to go where America sells practically anything: eBay.

FedEx issued an upbeat new view of the economy Friday, saying its earnings could end up nearly double earlier projections in part because of gains in international express shipping.

Truck manufacturer Navistar International lost $12 million in the fiscal quarter ending July 31, but the company said Thursday it will be profitable for the full year despite “the worst truck ma

Unionized drivers at less-than-truckload carrier New Penn Motor Express, facing possible shutdown, approved concessions sought by financially troubled parent company YRC Worldwide, the Teamsters union

If a recovery is truly under way in the freight sector, it is yet to translate into a steady upturn in the number of transportation jobs.

The antitrust division of the U.S. Department of Justice said it would not challenge the joint venture of seven U.S.

The retail price of diesel fuel fell 2.7 cents in the first week of September to reach a national average of $2.647 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

East side, west side, congestion is choking traffic all around New York City.

Freight rates in the truckload market, competing in many cases with rail-truck intermodal traffic, are steadily declining “without solid evidence of bottoming,” said transport stocks analy

The National Industrial Transportation League sharply criticized environmental groups’ claim that trade groups oppose clean-air efforts at ports this week, calling the accusation “a flagra

Federal stimulus disbursements by the Department of Transportation swelled to $2.354 billion by Aug.

A man and his two sons are facing federal fraud charges in Pennsylvania for allegedly setting up a phony truck brokerage scheme that duped companies out of more than $1 million.