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Ports along the Eastern Seaboard are putting money where their hopes are, investing in projects for better landside access by road and rail in an effort to compete for discretionary cargo.

Swift Transportation, the nation’s largest truckload carrier, will pay $4 million to the Port of Los Angeles to settle a dispute related to the port’s clean trucks program.

Moody’s Investors Service boosted its outlook for Swift Transportation to positive from stable as the nation’s largest truckload carrier rebuilds its business.

Southwestern less-than-truckload carrier Central Freight Lines will test 15 natural gas-powered Class 8 Peterbilt tractors in Houston and Galveston, Texas.

Industry groups including shippers and trucking companies are urging New Jersey legislators to reject union-backed bills that would require owner-operators hired by drayage and parcel companies to be

New customers, higher truck freight volumes and significant rate hikes pushed revenue at Echo Global Logistics up 41 percent last year to $602.8 million.

The American Trucking Associations will file a petition challenging new final truck driver work rules in federal court, the trucking group said Tuesday.

Diesel prices across the United States increased at the sharpest pace in nearly three months in the week ending Feb.

The Teamsters union Monday ramped up its organizing efforts among port drivers in Seattle with a rally for owner-operators in the harbor area, but the event reportedly had minimal impact on drayage se

C.H. Robinson Worldwide is putting 500 new intermodal containers into its U.S. shipping network as the freight broker seeks to add greater flexibility in shifting business between modes.

Among state transportation officials, it’s an inside joke.

Bigger, heavier trucks just can’t stay on the road in Congress.

The government might give railroads another five years to install costly crash-avoidance technology because the industry is on track to miss its end of 2015 deadline.

Schneider National helped create the template for the long-haul truckload carrier in the decades after trucking deregulation in the 1980s.

Germany will shut a canal linking the river Rhine to Hamburg, Europe’s second largest container port, late Friday night as the coldest February temperatures across Europe in almost three decades

The trucking and rail lobbies are calling a truce in their battle over truck size and weight limits, hoping a measure of intermodal unity will help push a controversial multi-year surface transportati

Intermodal freight shipments moved by U.S. railroads jumped 16.8 percent year-over-year in the week ending Feb.

Roadrunner Transportation Services increased its net profit 77 percent in the fourth quarter to $6.9 million as revenue jumped 43.6 percent to $238 million.

Flatbed trucking company Maverick Transportation is raising truck driver pay as it purchases new trucks and expands capacity to meet growing freight demand.

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Truckload rates are likely to rise anywhere from 2 to 6 percent in 2012 and even as high as 8 percent in coming years, depending on the strength of the recovery and the effect of new truck safety regu

A federal prosecutor is charging a Pennsylvania trucking company with running a three-year scheme to avoid federal trucking driver hours of service regulations.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration slapped an out-of-service order on U&D Services, shutting down the recently established trucking company.

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Trucking operators profiting from rising U.S. domestic shipping demand in turn are boosting sales and profits at truck and engine makers and technology firms.

Container Corporation of India boosted third quarter net profit 6 percent from a year ago to $49.2 million, as growth in the state-owned company's core container hauling business pushed revenue up 8 p

There’s a new intermodal rhythm humming along the roads and rail lines connecting manufacturers and retailers with ports and plants across the United States.

Deciding it is what it hauls, YRC Worldwide is rebranding its largest less-than-truckload operating subsidiary YRC as YRC Freight. The name change is more than cosmetic.

Norfolk Southern Railway and CSX Transportation are expanding their eastern U.S. intermodal rail networks, with new routes, facilities and services expected this year.

Harbor trucking executives across the U.S. celebrated an important victory last fall when the U.S.

YRC Worldwide is changing more than the name of its long-haul less-than-truckload subsidiary.

Major North American railroads plan to spend some $16 billion this year on network improvements, but those projects will come with a higher cost price for shippers.

Some operations at the Port of Seattle are feeling the impact of a push by harbor truck drivers for changes in their pay and positions.

Transport operators may be planning to purchase more trailers in the first quarter of 2012, as stronger than usual freight shipments spur demand for capacity.

About 170 shippers participating in a “fly-in” to deliver a pro-trucking message to Congress Feb. 1 arrived just as House Republicans unveiled a transportation plan.

Old Dominion Freight Line increased its profit 84.4 percent in 2011 to $139.5 million, while revenue rose 27.1 percent to $1.88 billion for the full year.

Transportation and warehousing were among the industries that contributed to the creation of 243,000 jobs in January, pushing the unemployment rate from 8.5 to 8.3 percent, the lowest since February.<

Acquisitions and internal growth in all business segments boosted fourth-quarter and year-end profit and revenue at supply chain giant Ryder System.

Maersk Inc., the U.S. arm of the A.P. Moller-Maersk Group, agreed to sell Direct ChassisLink, its chassis-leasing subsidiary, to the private equity firm Littlejohn & Co.

Landstar System&rsquo;s fourth quarter revenue rose 22.1 percent to $717.5 million, powered by a significant increase in freight volume and an &ldquo;extra&rdquo; week.