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What keeps truckers awake at night? Lately, the prospect of federal "guidance" on sleep apnea testing and treatment for truck drivers.

Despite the lackluster economy, FTR sees potential for a 'modest' peak shipping season this fall for truckers.

A federal court in late August left ABF Freight System with a clear choice: the less-than-truckload carrier could drop its struggle to wring $750 million in damages from the Teamsters union and YRC Worldwide, or try to appeal again after having its lawsuit challenging three rounds of union concessions at its competitor dismissed three times in as many years.

Truckload linehaul rates increased only slightly in August while intermodal rates were essentially flat, according to the latest indices from Cass Information Systems.

Roadrunner Transportation Systems has acquired all of the outstanding equity of G.W. Palmer Logistics for about $2.5 million, plus an earn-out capped at $2.8 million.

International overland connections between Southeast Asia and China will flourish with the launch of the ASEAN Economic Community in 2015, according to one leading logistics provider.

The National Gateway coalition has finished its first phase, launching double-stack intermodal rail service between CSX’s existing terminal in Chambersburg, Penn., and its hub facility in...

New Jersey’s Gov. Chris Christie has vetoed the Truck Operator Independent Contractor Act, which would have reclassified port truckers and parcel delivery truckers as employees...

William R. Costantini has been named vice president and chief transportation officer for Florida East Coast Railway (FEC), effective Sept. 16.

A faster-paced economy wasn't evident in the August employment numbers for freight transportation industries.

Three former USA Dry Van Logistics executives are charged with bilking more than $26 million from lender GE Capital.

The high cost of shipping Midwest grain by rail to the West Coast is restricting containerized grain exports to Asia, according to a Cargill executive.

ABF Freight System’s $750 million lawsuit against the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and YRC Worldwide has again been rejected by a federal court.

Union Pacific has unveiled Arrowedge, a new employee-designed, pilot technology for fuel and locomotive emissions reductions on double-stack intermodal freight trains.

Teamster employees at ABF Freight System approved five regional supplements, but two side agreements are still on the table.

That BNSF Railway refrigerated boxcar trains will begin hauling eggs next year is just another sign of just how far reefer train service has come and the awaiting potential.

The acquisition of 3PD Holding by XPO Logistics seems a detour from the fast-growing logistics company’s relentless pursuit of truck freight brokerage business. But XPO Chairman and CEO Bradley S. Jacobs says 3PD, a last-mile delivery logistics operator, not only complements XPO’s freight brokerage business but will open new routes deeper into shipper customer supply chains.

Haven’t seen much of a peak season on the highways and rails? You’re not alone. Growing evidence suggests the freight surge ahead of the holidays is coming more in the spring for trucking and translating to spikes, not a peak, for intermodal rail carriers.

Logistics executives should be wary of an increase in theft over the U.S. Labor Day weekend.

The nation’s largest refrigerated truckload carrier is raising pay for company drivers and owner-operators following a “stronger fiscal performance.”

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration published a long-awaited final rule last week to establish a Unified Registration System for trucking companies, freight brokers and forwarders and others required to register with the agency. The final rule consolidates and automates a paper-based registration system and expands the number and type of companies or operations that must register with the FMCSA.

The privatization of PKP Cargo moved closer after the Polish state rail freight operator reached agreement with labor unions over its initial public offering.

Qualcomm is selling its Omnitracs trucking communications and telematics business for $800 million to Vista Equity Partners, a private equity firm that specializes in technology companies.

Shippers face “significant” rate increases in the U.S. over the next few years unless they build more multimodal supply chains for domestic and inbound shipments, an investment analyst warns.

The Port of Felixstowe has reached a milestone, handling its 70 millionth 20-foot-equivalent unit since container operations began at the England port in the mid-1960s.

A recent industry survey shows third-party logistics companies and freight brokers are increasing the amount of business they do with LTL carriers significantly as shippers widen their search for capacity beyond the truckload business, and are making a bigger profit in the LTL business than the traditional truckload market.

TransCore Link Logistics’ Canadian Freight Index was basically flat in July compared with the previous month and July 2012, dodging the traditional summer slowdown typical for the month.

J. Harwood Cochrane, 100, founder of Overnite Transportation, and Jack Holmes, president of UPS Freight, discuss less-than-truckload’s origins and the trucking industry's multimodal future.

The American Trucking Associations’ advanced seasonally adjusted For-Hire Trucking Tonnage Index slipped 0.4 percent in July from June, to 125.4, after inching up 0.1 percent in June.

BNSF Railway has allocated $125 million for maintenance and rail capacity expansion projects in Washington this year.

Old Dominion Freight Line has opened a 100-door facility southwest of Chicago.

The number of truck drivers remains below its peak, as driver pay lags U.S. average wages.

The U.S. economy marked a milestone in June: the beginning of a fifth straight year of recovery as measured by growth in gross domestic product. Don’t worry, you didn’t miss the ticker-tape parade. With GDP increasing 1.1 percent and 1.7 percent in the first and second quarters of 2013, no one’s in much of a mood to celebrate.

PTA Holdings is expanding its refrigerated truckload business, adding a baked goods shipper in San Antonio, Texas, to balance northbound and southbound loads.

Norfolk Southern will hike its domestic intermodal rates in September.