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The federal government should eliminate a rule that forces some truck drivers to undergo duplicate, costly security checks, the Small Business Administration said Feb. 27.

Trucks hauled more freight in January than in Dece

A further weakening in freight demand portends falling freight rates through the second quarter, according to a mid-February report by freight forecaster FTR Associates.

Senate Democrats once again are trying to kill the Department of Transportation's crossborder trucking pilot project with Mexico.

NEW YORK -- The deregulation of the U.S. trucking industry by the 1980 ICC Termination Act continues

When it comes to taking it on the chin from the railroads over the fight for government funding, the trucking industry is apparently mad as hell and they're not going to take it anymore.

The deregulation of the U.S.

Private investment firm Centerbridge Partners completed its purchase of Greatwide Logistics Service in a restructuring that's expected to reduce the debt of the $1 billion logistics company by $478 mi

The retail price of diesel fell 5.6 cents last week to a national average of $2.13 per gallon, accor

P.A.M. Transportation Services faced a drop in the value of its stock in the fourth quarter by writing down goodwill.

Wal-Mart is revamping the hiring practices in its logistics division as part of a $17 million settlement of a racial discrimination class-action lawsuit.

The CEO of one of the largest U.S. transportation companies opposes replacing the gas tax with a vehicle mileage tax, claiming it would be unfair to many motorists.

YRC Worldwide sold to and leased back from Estes Express Lines a package of LTL terminals for $122 million in a deal that will provide a much needed boost to YRC's cash reserves.

The always competitive, sometimes cooperative relationship between railroads and trucking has been a hot topic for Traffic World since at least 1912.

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The letter from the ocean carrier starts out innocuously.

Copyright 2009, Traffic World, Inc.Five thousand, three hundred fourteen issues. One hundred one years, 10 months and nine days.

Copyright 2009, Traffic World, Inc.The 2009 Dedicated Contract Carriage Directory published

Weak imports and exports moving through Southern California are putting a strain on one of the most successful freight efficiency and congestion mitigation programs ever created for intermodal trucks.

Marine terminals in Los Angeles-Long Beach on Thursday continued to turn away trucks that did not me

Old Dominion Freight Line relocated and expanded its Cookeville, Tenn., LTL terminal in an effort to gain market share.

LONG BEACH, Calif. -- The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach Wednesday ushered in a new era of harbor trucking as they began to collect clean-truck fees from importers and exporters.

A shipper-backed proposal to increase truck productivity by lifting federal weight restrictions was opposed by railroad interests at a recent National Association of Manufacturers meeting in Washingto

Fatality rates in accidents involving trucks declined 5.8 percent in 2007 in part as a result of new

WASHINGTON -- Barring any further steps by the Federal Maritime Commission, the ports of Los Angeles

YRC Worldwide's bankers gave the carrier some financial breathing room with a modified credit agreem

The national average price for diesel last week dropped 3.3 cents to $2.186 per gallon, according to

Trucking and logistics company National Retail Systems will be plying the ports of Los Angeles and L

Copyright 2009, Traffic World, Inc.The downward spiral of job cuts continued among the count

As Southern California gets ready to charge $70 per container for trucks entering its ports to defra

Copyright 2009, Traffic World, Inc.Old Dominion Freight Line is increasing base rates an ave

Copyright 2009, Traffic World, Inc.Preliminary data from transportation forecasting firm FTR

Copyright 2009, Traffic World, Inc.UPS Freight is speeding delivery times on 2,250 lanes in

Velocity Express received a de-listing letter from the listing qualifications staff of The NASDAQ St

Amid gloomy prospects for the next three to six months, less-than-truckload carriers are scraping a

Standard & Poor's lowered its long-term corporate credit ratings on the holding company for Swif

Positive cash flow helped Quality Distribution overcome recurrent losses to end 2008 with a net inco

Vitran lost $3.2 million in the fourth quarter as integration and operating costs mounted and shipme

Copyright 2009, Traffic World, Inc.J.B. Hunt Transport Services posted net income of $53.3 m