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Drayage companies in Southern California by the end of the year will remove from service the final 280 trucks that do not meet the standards contained in the Los Angeles-Long Beach clean-truck program

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ABF Freight System is looking at new growth areas, including potential acquisitions, as the freight carrier seeks to build its business beyond its long-haul, less-than-truckload core operations, accor

Trucks handled more freight in October, as rising manufacturing output helped increase for-hire truck tonnage 0.5 percent from the previous month and 5.7 percent from a year ago, the American Trucking

Diesel prices across the United States increased 2.3 cents in the week ending Nov. 21, rising over $4 a gallon for the first time in 26 weeks as crude oil prices fell.

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Orders for Class 8 heavy trucks hit a six-month high in October, with manufacturers receiving 29,824 new orders and 28,026 net orders, according to ACT Research.

The Georgia Ports Authority board approved a $6.5 million, 6,000-foot extension of the Mason Intermodal Container Transfer Facility, as the

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Shippers turned to freight brokers for truck capacity in increasing numbers in the third quarter, boosting revenue at third-party intermediaries and at asset-based trucking companies that secure extra

James P. Hoffa was re-elected to a fourth term as general president of the Teamsters union Friday, winning 60 percent of the vote.

The Transported Asset Protection Association is rolling out global security standards for trucking and the first trucking security certification program for motor carriers and logistics service provid

The California Air Resources Board’s order of all Class 7 drayage trucks to meet the same emission standards that have been in effect for larger Class 8 trucks is intended to close loopholes in

Shippers have reached the “tipping point” in their effort to encourage trucking companies to reduce emissions and conserve fuel, a Swift Transportation vice president said Thursday.

Truckload giant U.S. Xpress Enterprises is expanding its regional operations in the Northeast and its custom critical or expedited business, adding drivers and equipment, U.S.

The issue of whether truck drivers nationwide are employees or independent contractors is far from dead despite a recent

With more than 170,000 ballots counted, incumbent James P. Hoffa commanded 57.2 percent of the votes cast for Teamsters general president in the union’s general election.

Intermodal container traffic increased 2.6 percent week-to-week and 6.9 percent year-over-year in the week ending Nov.

The American Trucking Associations is taking its battle against proposed changes to truck driver work hours to the federal Office of Management and Budget, which is reviewing the Department of Transpo

Major U.S. railroads have new tentative agreements with four of the 11 unions needed to avert a potential nationwide strike or lockout in December.

Veteran trucking executive Jack Gross is the new CEO of Haney Truck Line, a regional truckload and specialized carrier in the Pacific Northwest.

BNSF Railway’s profit rose 8.5 percent year-over-year to $766 million in the third quarter, as the railroad's revenue rose 13 percent despite traffic falling 1.9 percent.

With ballots still being counted, James P. Hoffa opened a broad lead over opponents Fred Gegare and Sandy Pope Wednesday in the Teamsters union elections.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration ordered Maryland trucker Gunthers Transport to shut down, saying numerous hours of service and other safety violations made the company an "imminen

AutoInfo, the parent of non-asset trucking company Sunteck Transport, increased its net profit 13.3 percent in the third quarter to $944,000.

U.S. Xpress Enterprises is expanding its expedited refrigerated trucking service, bringing its total number of reefer teams to 100, the company said Wednesday.

Spot market volume on TransCore&rsquo;s network of load board slipped 3.7 percent in October from September<

The National Industrial Transportation League will keep pressing for changes to railroad switching rules it calls anti-competitive, despite the Surface Transportation Board&rsquo;s deferral of a NITL

Truckload carrier CRST is fielding teams of company drivers to haul long-haul temperature controlled freight from Southern California to the Northeast.

Diesel prices across the United States increased 1 cent in the week ending Nov. 14, rising to the highest point since late May even as crude oil traded at its lowest point in two months.

Shippers are likely to face steep increases in truckload rates in the next two years, followed

Covenant Transportation lost $11.1 million in the third quarter compared to a $1.9 million profit in the same period

Less-than-truckload pricing is rising, financial results from the largest LTL carriers show, as tightening truck capacity and rising costs trump economic uncertainty.

Four months after James Welch rejoined YRC Worldwide as CEO, the scope of his plans for the ailing trucking giant is becoming clearer.

How tight is LTL capacity? That depends on the carrier and its territory.

ABF Freight System is extending its move toward international business with a less-than-containerload ocean offering the carrier will combine with its U.S.

Short-line rail operator Genesee & Wyoming increased carloads 14.2 percent in October, largely because of acquisitions and higher mineral and stone shipments.

More than $2 million in bankruptcy estate assets may be distributed to 676 former employees of Arrow Trucking, a flatbed carrier that shut down in 2009.

Union Pacific Railroad is pushing back the opening of its grain transloading facility at Yermo, Calif., to late 2011 or early 2012 amid a declining grain export market.

Intermodal container loads for U.S. railroads slowed down in the week ending Nov.