Trucking News

Shippers have "more questions than answers" about the future of the North American Free Trade Agreement, which is increasingly likely to be rewritten under President-elect Trump.

The Trump administration’s plan for a broad-based regulatory rollback could shorten the duration of any future truck capacity shortfall.

Cameron Roberts, partner at Roberts & Kehagiaras, offers ways drayage and trucking companies can protect themsleves from financial and legal exposure to Hanjin Shipping assets.

Was October's truckload spot market spike an atypical surge or sign of increased underlying demand?

Hungarian truckload company Waberer’s successfully swerved the negative impacts of Europe’s refugee crisis and Brexit, the company said.

Russian auto and railway carriers will soon adopt a new contracting system meant to provide shippers with long-term pricing certainty and increase infrastructure investment, but some shippers are concerned about the new system.

The much-rumored truckload capacity crunch hasn't been canceled but simply postponed for a year or less by low economic growth, speakers at the 2016 JOC Inland Distribution Conference said.

US shippers surveyed by the JOC, NASSTRAC, and Truckstop.com expect slightly higher freight volumes over the next six months, but mostly flat rates — except truckload rates.

A survey finds most shippers believe truckload capacity is now “adequate” or in a “rough equilibrium,” and expect it to stay that way.

There are signs that shippers expect truckload and domestic intermodal rates to creep higher in early 2017.

Truckload companies USA Truck and Celadon Group are not waiting for a recovery in the truckload market to materialize and pull them out of the red, instead working to get into the black with a stronger focus on their asset-light brokerage businesses.

Lower fuel surcharges, lighter shipments, acquisitions costs blamed for lower profit at less-than-truckload, logistics company.

Trucking is doing better at hiring workers than previous employment data suggested, but still is bumping against a "hiring ceiling."

Roadrunner’s push into the expedited shipping market over the last two years provided the trucking company an airbag to protect against crashing truckload and less-than-truckload volumes and rates in the third quarter.

IHS Automotive data reveal a significant decline in new commercial truck registrations, especially for heavy trucks.

The benefits of rising e-commerce demand are lifting revenue, profit at multiple units of XPO Logistics, from last-mile to LTL.

The ELD mandate's impact on available truck capacity isn't the only thing shippers should worry about.

When freight demand is low and rates are hard to maintain, who wants to buy a used truck? That's a problem truckload carriers face as they try to reduce their capacity to bolster pricing.

After a US court slapped down a challenge to the federal electronic logging mandate for truck drivers, shippers need to plan for dealing with the rule.

Despite a "soft industrial backdrop" and lower fuel surcharges and revenue, less-than-truckload carrier YRC Freight raised profits nearly 25 percent year-over-year in the third quarter and opened a new terminal.

As e-commerce volumes rise, UPS is adding more capacity.

The acquisition gives Canada's largest trucking operator a bigger US presence and route into Mexico and helps XPO pay down debt.

Rapid changes in technology are reshaping the logistics landscape and spurring the growth of freight management services, including the formation of nearly $1 billion firm Sunteck/TTS Holdings.

Cranking up profits and gaining freight, the multiregional less-than-truckload carrier looks to fill one of the last large gaps in its coverage.

Plunging truckload rates proved a dead weight on profits at C.H. Robinson Worldwide in the third quarter.

The largest US truckload carrier cut more than 1,600 tractors from its overal fleet in the past year, but added 130 trucks to its dedicated business, which increased revenue and profit.

DrayQ and DrayLink to be introduced in Seattle-Tacoma in early November to improve terminal efficiency for truckers and BCOs.

PierPass Inc. discusses possible changes in its model with port stakeholders in LA-LB.

Old Dominion Freight Lines avoided damage and used technology and phones to keep close contact with customers as storm and flooding pummeled its home state.

Even when volumes rise, lower revenue shows impact of reduced rates and fuel surcharges at publicly owned carriers.

Russian shippers and transportation companies say they will have to increase their rates double digits to keep up with the cost increases created by Russia’s “Platon” truck toll.

US regulators are increasing funding for driver-training schools and institutions serving veterans while pushing a pilot program that would license under-21 ex-military drivers.

US shippers may be concerned about trucking rate hikes in 2017 and 2018, but pricing power isn't likely to slip away from them soon.

A week after Hurricane Matthew’s clouds lifted, US shippers continue to experience delays or outright embargoes on cargo moving in and around eastern North Carolina where rail lines and roads remain underwater.

Quarterly net profit dropped at the third-largest trucking operator for the first time since early 2014, thanks to lower truckload and intermodal rates. Dedicated is an exception.

The Teamsters' long-haul campaign to organize XPO Logistics, as well as FedEx Freight, unfolds terminal by terminal, court decision by court decision.

Falling revenue per tractor and higher equipment and insurance costs will narrow Covenant Transport's third-quarter profits, and the truckload carrier won't be alone.

The truckload carrier is reducing the size of its company fleet but hopes a pay hike will attract more independent contractors.

A $13 million infusion of venture capital is slated to help a cloud-based load-tracking provider expand to new modes and new markets.

US regulators simplify the process getting training, a license, and a job in trucking for veterans and active duty military personnel.