Trucking News

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A group of 11 shippers dropped their class action lawsuit alleging the nation’s largest less-than-truckload carriers conspired to fix fuel surcharge prices.

California motor carriers are asking the state air quality board to slow down adoption of its proposed low-carbon fuel standard that the industry says could cause the cost of diesel fuel to double.

Ryder System is slashing its first quarter earnings estimates by roughly half due primarily to the beating its fleet management division is taking from the slowing economy.

UPS Freight expanded its door-to-door less-than-truckload service in Mexico and shortened transit times in Canada in a move to solidify its market position in anticipation of a stronger economy.

Trucker YRC Worldwide, announcing a new series of cutbacks and charges in its troubled business, said Tuesday tonnage at its national less-than-truckload declined 29 percent in the first quarter.

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American Trucking Associations president Bill Graves told U.S.

The average retail price of diesel fuel last week rose seven-tenths of a cent to $2.228 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

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Refrigerated trucker Frozen Food Express, which had withstood the economic downturn with growing profits and revenue last year, announced it has cut 150 positions and is taking other actions to reduce

New Class 8 truck orders through March were “dismal,” according to preliminary data from industry analyst FTR Associates.

Revenue for third-party logistics providers dropped by 6.7 percent during the first quarter of 2009 compared with the first quarter of last year, according to a survey by Armstrong & Associates.

If there's a recession out there it's not taking place in the ballroom of the Grand Hyatt Downtown San Antonio.

Big shippers with plenty of pricing power are favoring third party logistics providers with heavy assets behind their name.

A key measure of industrial shipping in the United States showed shipments declined 22 percent in March from the same month a year ago, suggesting retailers and manufacturers were retrenching still mo

Con-way Freight is spanning the Atlantic with express transport giant TNT in a bid to load more European freight into U.S. trucks.

New orders for manufactured durable goods increased in February for the first time in six months, according to a report from the U.S. Census Bureau on April 2.

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have each been collecting more than $200,000 a day in clean-trucks fees since Feb.18.

Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland is expected to sign a bill April 1 that would raise the state speed limit for trucks on state highways from 55 mph to 65 mph.

Representatives of large trucking companies and small independent operators are shifting into high gear in the battle over truck size and weight limits on Capitol Hill.

The Superior Court of Washington for King County ruled FedEx Ground pick up and delivery drivers are independent contractors and not legally full-time employees.

Corporate relocation expert Atlas World Group named two top executives following the retirement of former chairman Jim Stamm.

YRC Worldwide will fire 600 nonunion employees in the next several weeks as a result of its Yellow Transportation-Roadway integration and weak business volume brought on by the weak economy.

Central Freight Lines is using software from Cheetah Freight to book more freight and strip out miles with fewer people.

The Transportation Security Administration needs to dig deeper to find out how protected the nation’s trucks are against a terrorist attack, according to the U.S.

Trade using surface transportation between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement partners Canada and Mexico took its steepest dive ever in January to the lowest monthly dollar

The average retail price of diesel fuel soared 13.1 cents last week to $2.221 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Lawyers representing the American Trucking Associations and the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach on April 27 will present oral arguments in the ports’ clean-truck case.

Cummins Turbo Technologies will consolidate its turbocharger operations in Charleston, S.C., from two facilities to one over the next 18 months.

Con-way’s less-than-truckload subsidiary Con-way Freight is accelerating transit times between Washington's Tri-Cities area and eastern Idaho to support local farms during the region's peak plan

Drivers in cross-border operations to Mexico and along the U.S.

Rates for truckload services will fall about 4 percent this year as U.S. shippers seek to lock low spot market pricing into long-term contracts, a transportation industry analyst said.

The Department of Transportation should have legislation drafted to allow Mexican trucks to operate in the United States by the time President Obama visits Mexico on April 16 and 17, according to a de

While carriers and shippers see a transportation landscape littered with empty trailers, shuttered carrier offices, parked trucks and idled ships, freight brokers see opportunities.

Trucking companies and the shippers relying on them could see fuel costs take another hit — fired from the bow of the maritime industry.

Less-than-truckload carriers are seeing demand leave the market faster than they can withdraw capacity, and they are trying to catch up.

Old Dominion Freight Line doubled its capacity in South Bend, Ind. with its relocation to a 55-door less-than-truckload terminal five miles north of its current facility.