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The less-than-truckload industry is moving faster, even as the economic engine slows, with the largest industry giants and regional players alike re-engineering networks to deliver freight more quickly for shippers and consignees.

C.H. Robinson Worldwide sent a clear message about its global ambitions with the $635 million purchase of freight forwarder Phoenix International. The acquisition nearly doubles the size of C.H.

Joe Ruddy had a big problem.

Shortly after launching expedited service to the West Coast, Averitt is shortening less-than-truckload transit times in lanes between Atlanta and the Midwest.

In an attempt to improve driver retention, Con-way Truckload will raise per-mile pay and reduce to two hours the amount of time drivers must wait at shipper docks before “detention” pay kicks in, the Joplin, Mo.-based company said Friday.

Despite an overall drop in unemployment, trucking employment was basically flat in September, with only a slight gain in seasonally adjusted payroll head count.

The U.S. freight-related transportation industry and the warehouse sector added about 4,300 jobs in September from August, helping to push down national unemployment under 8 percent for the first time since 2009.

The Army Corps of Engineers, facing funding cuts for inland waterways and port work, must change how it operates to maintain the nation’s freight networks, according to a National Research Counc

Universal Truckload Services completed its acquisition of LINC Logistics, a Warren, Mich.-based third-party logistics provider heavily associated with the automotive industry and especially automakers

UPS will deploy 40 new hydraulic hybrid vehicles, developed by Freightliner Custom Chassis Corp. and Parker Hannifin Corp.

Richardson International Ltd. plans to tap growing agriculture export markets by spending about $120 million to expand its port terminal facility in Vancouver.

Much like the tows waiting to traverse the locks on the Mississippi River, a strategic plan to improve the inland waterways has seen serious delays.

Business conditions for trucking companies improved in August, and are likely to keep improving despite slow economic growth, according to transportation research firm FTR Associates.

Bulk trucking giant Quality Distribution took advantage of low-cost credit to increase its borrowing

Total Quality Logistics will open a new office in Cleveland in early November.

Less-than-truckload carriers are raising rates 3 to 4 percent, before fuel surcharges, despite “negative economic signals,” according to Stifel Nicolaus.

Although China’s growth has slowed from double-digits down to the high single-digit range, the growth of food consumption is showing no signs of slackening.

Transportation and logistics provider Werner Enterprises recently opened a new terminal in Brownstown Charter Township, near Detroit.

Canadian Pacific Railway on Oct. 1 announced that Mike Franczak, executive vice president and COO, has resigned.

Short-line and regional railroad operator Genesee & Wyoming Inc. announced yesterday that it has completed the acquisition of RailAmerica, Inc.

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Chengdu, a city of 14 million people more than 1,000 miles from the ports of Shanghai or Shenzhen, is at the heart of China’s plan to shift manufacturing from the higher-cost east coast to its i

Rachel Katz arrived in Chengdu in the fall of 2010 with experience as a student and teacher in China and speaking Mandarin, but little knowledge of trucking.

The western railroads provide the vital intermodal link between the West Coast and the eastern half of the country for containerized imports from Asia, and they appear to be taking in stride the cargo

The long-awaited surge in diverted cargo from East Coast ports to the West Coast finally arrived in September, but the harbor trucking industry in Southern California can’t decide if it's a blessing or a curse.

Although China’s passenger rail services dwarf those of the United States, its container rail connections dramatically lag its North American rival.

Canadian National Railway is testing two locomotives fueled primarily by natural gas in northern Alberta, a major step in the railroad industry's determination of whether the alternative fuel is feasible.

Truckload carrier Celadon Trucking Services acquired some of the assets of Robinson Transport, a 200-truck motor carrier based in Columbus, Ohio.

Surface transportation trade between the U.S. and its North American Free Trade Agreement partners, Canada and Mexico, rose...

U.S. intermodal rail shipments rose 0.7 percent year-over-year in the week ending Sept. 22, while carload traffic fell 4.1 percent in the same period, according to the Association of American Railroads.

BNSF Railway’s proposed Southern California International Gateway will eliminate 1.5 million truck trips a year between the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and downtown Los Angeles, the rail

A shortage of available commercial drivers threatens truckload carriers with higher costs, and shippers with much higher rates. What is the driver shortage, and why does one exist when opportunities are plentiful and unemployment is high?

Berkshire Hathaway has roughly a week to explain to the federal government how it will divest itself of two railroads, after the company revealed it owns two carriers other than BNSF Railway.