Trucking News

Diesel prices started back upward this week as crude oil futures reached a nine-month high.

Citing weak and inconsistent freight volumes in the second quarter, an analyst for Stifel, Nicolaus

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.YRC Worldwide''s latest attempt to wring more costs from

Quality Distribution, the Tampa, Fla.-based bulk transportation firm, promoted Gary R. Enzor to chie

The stockholders of Smithway Motor Xpress on June 8 approved the agreement and plan for Western Expr

The Transportation Marketing & Communications Association posthumously named Mike Russell the "2

Business in the trucking industry declined in May amid general expansion in the economy, according t

FedEx Freight Canada will officially open its combined national headquarters and service center on J

The American Moving and Storage Association asked federal courts in South Carolina and Illinois to d

Ray Kuntz, CEO of Watkins & Shepard Trucking of Helena, Mont., began on June 13 a 16-month term

Averitt Express opened a 7,000-square-foot service center in West Palm Beach, Fla. The trucking and&

SAN FRANCISCO -- West Coast transportation interests told a meeting of agricultural shippers over th

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Barely a month after taking back the reins of the nation'

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Trimac Equipment Leasing finalized its purchase of Orange

The average retail price for a gallon of diesel fuel fell just seven-tenths of a cent to $2.792 this

Standard & Poor's last week raised its bank loan ratings for Saint Corporation, the holding comp

An ambitious but controversial plan of the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to reduce pollution f

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.While trucking surely benefited from the uptick in shipme

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Celadon Group expanded its truckload operations with its

Robert Voltmann, president and CEO of the Transportation Intermediaries Association, is speaking on

The American Highway Users Alliance, an advocacy group that includes manufacturers, drivers and cons

Dynamex, a provider of same-day delivery and logistics services in the United States and Canada, had

Averitt Express, a provider of freight transportation headquartered in Cookeville, Tenn., selected t

Celadon purchased this week the truckload business as well as many of the tractors and trailers of A

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Customs and Border Protection said electronic manifest fi

Trimac Equipment Leasing finalized the asset purchase of Orange, Calif.-based Logistics Express Inc.

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.The battle for regional freight is heating up as truckloa

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Trucks carried $116 billion in trade across the U.S.-Cana

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.The "for sale" sign apparently is not on LTL giant YRC Wo

As the price of crude oil futures slid down $2 per barrel and eased back up to just 12 cents less th

A group of FedEx Home Delivery drivers, formerly classified as contractors, voted to join the Teamst

International Brotherhood of Teamsters President James P. Hoffa called for an unusual alliance of bu

Trucking software provider TMW Systems lengthened its reach into fleet operations by acquiring TMT S

Challenger Investments, parent of Challenger Motor Freight, agreed to acquire long haul refrigerated

Sales of diesel powered vehicles could grow faster than sales of hybrid gas-electric vehicles, accor

Overall traffic fatalities in 2006 declined slightly, but fatalities from large truck crashes droppe

The average price for a gallon of diesel fuel climbed for the second week running as crude oil futur

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Heartland Express received a boost from Wall Street last

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Carriers are getting support from an unlikely source - so

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Southeastern Freight Lines opened new service centers in