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Congress was not caught napping as federal regulators moved to set new requirements for identifying and treating sleep disorders among truck drivers. Despite a partial government shutdown, legislators this month rushed a bill to the White House ordering the Department of Transportation to pursue a full rule-making and not simply issue guidance on obstructive sleep apnea and truck drivers.

TransForce reported its profit in third quarter of 2013 was C$44.0 million (about US$42.0 million), down 18.2 percent year-over-year.

Celadon Group reported its net income plummeted 20.5 percent to $6.6 million in the first quarter of fiscal year 2014, which ended Sept. 30, 2013, from $8.3 million in the same period last year.

CAI International reported its net income in the third quarter of 2013 was $15.3 million, falling 9 percent year-over-year from $16.8 million.

Fresh from a network restructuring and leadership changes, YRC Worldwide will sit down with the Teamsters next month to discuss the LTL operator's future, including its debt obligations.

ASF Intermodal has opened an intermodal drayage facility in the Chicago area.

GATX reported its net income in the third quarter of 2013 was basically flat year-over-year at $53.8 million.

Knight Transportation reported its net income in the third quarter of 2013 was $15.2 million, dropping 9.1 percent year-over-year from $16.7 million.

Using in-cab and back office technology, Schneider National has measured a 3.1 percent drop in productivity since new truck driver hours of service rules took effect July 1.

A newly launched intermodal company aims to provide direct transport of produce from farms to major North American supermarkets by following the shifting growing season.

Swift Transportation reported its net income in the third quarter of 2013 was $30.0 million, dropping 11.0 percent year-over-year from $33.7 million.

Old Dominion Freight Line reported its profit in the third quarter of 2013 increased 17.8 percent to $60.1 million, from $51.0 million in the third quarter of 2012.

It sounds elementary: An exporter in an interior location needs empty containers.

Canadian Pacific reported its net income in the third quarter of 2013 was C$324 million, jumping 48 percent year-over-year.

Norfolk Southern reported its net income in the third quarter of 2013 was $482 million, increasing 20 percent year-over-year from $402 million.

Canadian National today reported its net income in the third quarter of 2013 C$705 million (about US$685.3 million), rising 6.2 percent from C$664 million in the same period last year.

Transportation and warehousing businesses added 23,000 jobs in September, mostly in transit and passenger transportation, as total nonfarm employment increased by 148,000 jobs, the U.S. Labor Department said on Oct. 22.

The American Trucking Associations’ advanced seasonally adjusted For-Hire Trucking Tonnage Index increased 1.4 percent month-over-month in September, which matched August’s gain.

Shipper acceptance of refrigerated rail has grown in the past several years as new services have proved reliable in intermodal and boxcar sectors.

Kansas City Southern reported its profit in the third quarter jumped 31.2 percent from $90.7 million in 2012 to $119.0 million in 2013.

Hub Group reported profit in the third quarter of 2013 totaling $18.6 million, inching up year-over-year from $18.5 million.

When “Captain Phillips,” Hollywood’s take on the April 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates on the Maersk Alabama, debuted on Oct. 11, it thrust the ocean shipping industry into the mainstream spotlight in a way no recent film has. But it’s certainly not the first film to do so, and it won’t be the last.

Werner Enterprises reported its net income in the third quarter of 2013 was $21.3 million, sliding 15 percent year-over-year from $25.1 million.

Union Pacific today reported its profit in the third quarter of 2013 was $1.15 billion, increasing 10 percent year-over-year from $1.04 billion.

Marten Transport reported its net income in the third quarter of 2013 was a record $8.0 million, jumping 22.4 percent year-over-year from $6.5 million.

CSX today reported its profit in the third quarter of 2013 was $463 million, or 46 cents per share, up from $455 million, or 44 cents per share, in the same period last year.

J.B. Hunt Transport Services reported its net income in the third quarter of 2013 was $89.5 million, up 14.5 percent year-over-year from $78.2 million.

A battle may be brewing for the Canadian business of trucking operator Vitran, which this month sold its ailing U.S. less-than-truckload business.

The Teamsters Canada Rail Conference, which represents about 3,300 conductors, trainmen, yardmen and traffic coordinators at Canadian National...

American Railcar Industries today announced that James Cowan, president and CEO of the hopper and tank railcar manufacturer, has resigned to “pursue other interests.”

Florida East Coast Railway has announced that its $53 million, 42.5-acre intermodal container transfer facility at Port Everglades is making progress and is expected to open in mid-2014.

FTR Associates’ Trucking Conditions Index for August, published in the October 2013 Trucking Update, rose to a reading of 9.52, a full point improvement from the July reading.

Adani Hazira Container Terminal and state-owned rail operator Container Corp. of India have reached an agreement to ensure an intermodal route connecting Tughlakabad and Dadri...

Hub Group has lowered its expectations for the third quarter of 2013 to a range of 48 to 51 cents diluted earnings per share.

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters has mailed ballots to authorize a strike against ABF Freight System by its employees covered under the Central Region Local Cartage supplement.

Knight Transportation has announced that it expects its earnings per diluted share for the third quarter to be in the range of 18 cents to 20 cents, down from its earlier projection of 22 cents to 24 cents.

Indian Railways, which implemented a 15.0 percent “busy season” surcharge on Oct. 1 on all bulk commodities, is again revising its freight tariff.

Freightliner has run its first service out of London Gateway to collect import containers destined for the Midlands in England.