Trucking News

Landstar System on July 15 reported lower second-quarter earnings, as the Jacksonville, Fla.-based trucking company continued to feel the impact of the economic recession.

Flying J has a plan to come out of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy, but it means selling its core truck stop business to Pilot Travel Centers.

The trucking industry is towing too many empty trailers to gain the speed it needs to reach a recovery, says FTR Associates.

New York-New Jersey port truckers said they support the concept of chassis pools, but aren't happy with Maersk's planned Direct ChassisLink program, and won't support it without changes.

The Teamsters union would gain a seat on YRC Worldwide's board of directors and other concessions from the company in return for a 15 percent overall wage cut and a temporary waiver on pension payment

Truckload carrier Heartland Express defied the economic downturn with a 2 percent boost in net profit in the second quarter, but the carrier said July 14 it sees little improvement in the economy and

Trucking bankruptcies may be on the rise again after declining 49 percent in early 2009, as higher fuel costs and the recession grind down carrier profit margins.

Monson Trucking isn’t the first trucking company to fail in this recession, but it is one of the oldest.

Truckload carrier Landstar System is expanding off-road by acquiring two technology companies that give it greater reach into shippers’ freight networks.

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YRC Worldwide’s stock rose 60 cents to $1.49 a share July 9 on news that the financially strapped trucking enterprise reached a tentative agreement on cost cuts with the Teamsters union.

The U.S. Postal Service is greening its fleet of delivery trucks with 1,000 E-85 ethanol-powered and 900 hybrid gasoline-electric trucks.

Maersk Line plans to launch its new chassis pool arrangement throughout the Northeast on Monday, Aug. 3.

Cross-border trucking over the Ambassador Bridge connecting Detroit to Windsor, Ontario, the busiest commercial connection between the United States and Canada, fell by nearly a third in the first hal

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Freightliner Truck, the largest heavy truck maker in North America unveiled a natural gas-powered Class 8 tractor June 7 aimed at the port, drayage and utility markets.

Milan Express and New Century Transportation formed a “Lightning Alliance” to speed less-than-truckload freight from the Midwest and Southeast to the Northeast.

Is the trucking industry’s fuel tank three quarters empty or one quarter full? And is there enough fuel in that tank to get struggling motor carriers through the recession?

Six months after winning a 10 percent wage cut from its union workers, YRC Worldwide went back to the bargaining table.

Hampton Boulevard offers a winding, often scenic path from Norfolk, Va., to Portsmouth, taking just six miles to go from one port terminal to another through bustling neighborhoods that include a hosp

Motor carriers serving the nation’s ports and rail ramps are convinced that if they can survive the global trade recession for six more months, they will be well positioned to thrive in an impro

Truckload carrier Landstar System is expanding off-road by acquiring two technology companies that give it greater reach into shippers’ freight networks.

YRC Worldwide and the Teamsters union will extend negotiations on contract concessions that could save the carrier $500 million into a second week.

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Monson Trucking of Duluth, Minn., is shutting down following the loss of two major shipper customers.

The average price of diesel fuel dropped back eight-tenths of a cent to $2.608 per gallon last week, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

The days of a harbor truck driver’s cursory inspection of an intermodal chassis should be gone with the implementation of “roadability” regulations published by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Admini

Although truckers hauled less freight in May compared with the same month a year ago, the contraction was the best year-over-year result in three months, and tonnage actually increased compared with A

Maersk Line will launch a nationwide chassis pool, pushing forward the evolution of the U.S. intermodal industry.

Truck traffic across the Canadian border is lighter these days, but the list of security rules that cross-border truckers and their shipper customers must obey has grown longer.

National Retail Systems is finding new ways to make money.

The road ahead for the country’s largest trucking company is looking rockier than ever despite a reprieve from the Teamsters union and its major pension fund.

It’s not part of the stimulus money coursing from federal coffers through state highway budgets, but a Department of Transportation program just sent $5.2 million to 14 states to help pay for innovati

Six months after winning a 10 percent wage cut from its unionized workers, YRC Worldwide is back at the bargaining table.

Getting a new multi-year, federal transportation spending program approved by Congress quickly is a key to the health of the factory sector, says the head of the National Association of Manufacturers.

President Obama plans to nominate aviation safety expert Christopher A. Hart to be a member of the National Transportation Safety Board.

Clean diesel technologies in engines manufactured beginning in 2007 not only reduced certain emissions by 90 percent compared to 2004 models, but far exceeded expectations in their performance in clea

Two key senators, who chair committees important to transportation infrastructure, urged the Senate to set aside at least $50 million for rail safety technology grants.

Charging that excessive speculation is driving up diesel fuel prices, the American Trucking Associations asked Congress to place new controls on energy futures markets.

After the seventh consecutive weekly increase, diesel fuel reached its highest price in seven months.