Trucking News

Truck tonnage declined in February compared with a year earlier. February was the eighth month runni

A Department of Transportation program to allow Mexican trucking companies to operate in the United

A slight dip in diesel prices this week coincided with a major up-tick in crude oil prices, presagin

Truckload shippers around the country are scrambling to lop off 25 percent or more from contract rat

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.LTL carrier Con-way Freight completed a major expansion t

The American Transportation Research Institute released on March 26 the initial analysis of its indu

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.UPS Freight and FedEx Freight are banking on strong rate

Flatbed and van truckload carrier Smithway Motor Xpress of Fort Dodge, Iowa, accepted an offer of $1

San Mateo, Calif.-based trucking and logistics firm Con-way promoted Lynn C. Reinbolt to president o

Higher Big truck engine manufacturer Cummins approved use of higher levels of biodiesel in its engin

Vernon Eugene Garner, who started his family-owned trucking company with $625 and a single truck and

Getloaded.com, an Internet load board posting over 140,000 loads a day, upgraded its online services

The average price for a gallon of diesel fuel at the retail pump this week was $2.681, down just fou

To counter rising costs, the nation's $300 billion private fleet industry increasingly is chasing ba

Opponents of a plan to allow a select group of Mexican trucks to operate throughout the U.S. as earl

Dedicated Transport, a privately held contract trucking and logistics firm based in Cleveland, acqui

Thomasville, N.C.-based super-regional carrier Old Dominion Freight Line will offer door-to-door ser

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.YRC Regional Transportation was stung by the loss of two

Two less-than-truckload subsidiaries of FedEx will implement a 5.59 percent general rate increase ef

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Ward Trucking is making changes at the top while the comp

The Governors Highway Safety Association, a non-profit association that represents state highway saf

Old Dominion Freight Line is raising rates an average of 5.1 percent, a healthy rate increase in the

The Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach are allocating an additional $6.3 million to replace older,

Con-way Freight, the less-than-truckload subsidiary of Con-way, expanded its freight assembly center

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Celadon Group is hedging its bets that shoring up capacit

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Chip Watkins, who helped engineer the sale of Watkins Mot

The national average price for a gallon of diesel reached $2.685 this week, up 5.9 cents from last w

TMW Systems, provider of trucking enterprise management software, released its mobile communication

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Estes Express Lines is expanding its operations in Maine

J.B. Hunt Transport Services is teaming with Matson Navigation Co. to launch an expedited freight se

Brian Kelley resigned, effective April 1, as president, CEO and director of global relocation provid

Averitt Express opened a new facility in Cleveland in an effort to shave a day off transit times to

Robert Zimmerman, the president of regional LTL carrier USF Holland, left the company this week, off

Penske Truck Leasing opened March 7 an 11,000-square-foot state-of-the-art facility in Winston-Salem

Frank W. Reuwer, who was named president of trucker USF Glen Moore only two months ago, died this we

The Department of Transportation's pilot program to allow U.S. and Mexican trucks to crisscross the

Dynamex, a large same-day delivery specialist operating in the United States and Canada, earned net

Revenue at Mullen Group Income Fund, a Canadian trucking, logistics and oilfield services company, t

Frozen Food Express Industries, Dallas-based temperature-controlled carrier of perishable goods, saw

Copyright 2007, Traffic World, Inc.Pressing on ongoing acquisition strategy, truckload busin