Trucking News

In its first acquisition in 78 years, Kottke Trucking expanded its business 60 percent, gaining drivers, freight, scale and density.

Fast-growing BlueGrace Logistics should grow faster with support from private equity firm Warburg Pincus.

Connecticut trucking company will enable fast-growing supply chain provider to expand amid sluggish growth elsewhere in the trucking industry.

Does an uptick in trucking jobs indicate the trucking market is stabilizing?

Matson has closed on its acquisition of Alaska logistics provider Span Alaska.

With cost controls, disciplined pricing and a sharp eye on volume margins, XPO Logistics positions LTL for more profitable growth.

Small carriers may have gained more revenue than their larger counterparts last year, reversing a recent trend. Can they do it again in 2016?

XPO's North American LTL operations, the former Con-way, led the company's drive to its first quarterly net profit.

FR8 Revolution unveils a freight tracking tool, but has bigger plans involving a big truck maker.

The North American Chassis Pool Cooperative is offering rentals of premium intermodal chassis near the port of Savannah.

Dicom looks to integrate cross-border trucking, parcel business with last-mile service as e-commerce grows.

Oakland’s largest terminal operator is struggling to find the right formula for its newly-mandated trucker appointment system.

Despite lower volumes, many LTL carriers say they are still winning contractual rate increases.

Strong hiring may have led to a new peak in trucking's hiring cycle. Is it downhill from here?

U.S. freight projects this year received their lowest share ever from the TIGER federal grant program.

Despite an uptick in volume in July, trucking executives see a long road ahead before truckload rates rise.

The opening of the first bathroom solely for female truck drivers in one of the busiest terminals at the Port of New York and New Jersey this month has highlighted the growing numbers of women drivers in drayage, which could prove vital to ameliorating the driver shortages plaguing the industry.

The acquisition of Command Transportation last year is helping Echo Global Logistics gain truckload brokerage market share.

SLIDE SHOW: Wind power shipments have emerged as one of the key growth sectors in breakbulk and project cargo shipping.

The slight year-over-year drop in quarterly revenue was the first for ODFL since 2009.

Looking beyond the broader market, Hub Group sees share gain, more volume ahead.

Broker benefits from lower costs, but lower rates take a bite out of truckload revenue.

Russia’s container trade continues to rebound, sparking an intense competition between truckers and railroads.

TransForce's package division increased sales 6 percent, but its trucking business struggled in the second quarter.

The fifth-largest U.S. truckload carrier is cutting some shippers loose as they seek deep rate cuts in a soft market.

Direct ChassisLink's acquisition this week of a technology company will broaden the intermodal equipment manager’s ability to manage assets.

Swift Transportation's efforts to control capacity weren't enough to stave off a decline in earnings.

Span Alaska gives Matson Logistics greater reach into The Frontier State, and door-to-door service capabilities increasingly needed to compete.

A drop in spot rates and sluggish economy bit into revenue and profit at the fourth-largest U.S. truckload carrier.

In trucking, warehousing and, in fact, in a number of industries, worker misclassification is possibly the hottest topic today in labor relations.

Tonnage drops in June despite other improving indicators for trucking.

New online sales events such as Amazon's Prime Day increase demand for last-mile capacity.

The EU has fined four of Europe’s largest truck manufacturers a record 2.93 billion euros ($3.3 billion).

Second-quarter results show $6.2 billion J.B. Hunt is spending to build intermodal, truck volume, revenue.

As US regulators look into shipper detention practices, DAT survey finds many drivers are being delayed.

Economic indicator shows no sign of inventory destocking in May.

As spot market truckload volumes rise, will rates follow?

Established logistics companies and brokers could partner with digital start-ups to speed the "evolution" of technology demanded by shippers, the CEO of Echo Global Logistics says.

Mario Cordero reacted quickly to an announcement of a traffic mitigation fee increase at the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex.

As freight demand lags, trucking's payroll drops from post-recession peak.