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Construction has begun on a $208 million rail crossing project that will reduce train and vehicle congestion in Colton, Calif., where the convergence of east-west and north-south rail lines creates on

Just as it did this year, the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority probably will need another shortfall payment from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach when a debt payment is due on Oct.

Mark Furman has a list of reasons why the market for building new railcars is strong despite continuing worries about where the economy is headed.

The American Trucking Associations joined an array of business groups praising a transportation spending plan appro

The Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index reversed course in October, rising 1.1 percent from September after declining for three consecutive months, indicating that trucking activity as measured by f

Capacity at a group of six large truckload carriers tracked by The Journal of Commerce fell a cumulative 1.5 percent from the second quarter and 1.5 percent from a year ago, with two carriers increasi

Less-than-truckload pricing is rising, financial results from the largest LTL carriers show, buoyed by tightening capacity and increased freight volume despite uncertainty about the course the economy

Domestic intermodal traffic spiked upward 6.3 percent in the third quarter, an industry group said

President Obama’s team trying to head off a nationwide rail strike or lockout offered new recommendations on contract terms, triggering a final 30-day countdown toward labor action on Dec.

Intermodal provider Hub Group said its Comtrak Logistics unit acquired assets of intermodal drayage trucker Challenge

Displaying confidence in U.S.

A 30 percent increase in shipments pushed third-quarter gross revenue up 40 percent year-over-year to $159 million at Echo Global Logistics.

North American owners of freight railcars trucked 1,378 more into storage lots and track sidings during October, as traffic slowed some from the peaks set in

Profits tightened at XPO Logistics, formerly Express-1Expedited Solutions, as operating revenue rose 6.6 percent in the third quarter to $47.4 million.

Felixstowe’s container rail traffic hit a record 11,019 containers in a single week, as the UK’s largest box port reaps the benefits of a three-year investment in tracks, cranes and termin

Less than two months after being named president of YRC, Jeff Rogers is cutting away layers of management and consolidating sales and operations in an attempt to steer the national less-than-truckload

The intermodal industry gathers next week in Atlanta for the Intermodal Expo, hosted by the Intermodal Association of North America.

A new management style is becoming evident at YRC Worldwide and its long-haul subsidiary YRC, as new CEO James L.

Caught between pressure from captive shippers and strong opposition from railroads, industry regulators chose Friday to delay making any decision on whether to impose more competitive switching rules.

Transportation employment increased more than 2 percent year-over-year in October, with rail employment up 3.8 percent and trucking up 2.9 percent.

Activist hedge fund investor William Ackman’s plan for boosting the value of his stake in Canadian Pacific Railway does not include selling off the second-largest carrier in Canada, Ackman told

YRC Worldwide gave Jamie G. Pierson the job he’s been doing effectively since August, naming him executive vice president and chief financial officer.

Somewhere, somehow, the intermodal market missed the message that the U.S. economy might be stumbling back into recession.

A lawsuit filed by the Natural Resources Defense Council in California may have national implications for all railroads.

The center of intermodal growth is shifting toward the center of the U.S., as U.S. manufacturing creates more shorter-haul, domestic intermodal freight.

As more truckloads are converted to intermodal containerloads, trucking companies aren’t rushing to cut rates to keep that freight on the highway.

The $500 million financial restructuring completed in July may save YRC Worldwide in the long-term, but any gain came with some short-term pain in the third quarter.

Steady freight demand in less-than-truckload and truckload markets boosted Con-way’s total revenue 8.4 percent in the third quarter to $1.38 billion.

The U.S. agency that regulates economic issues between railroads and shippers says Union Pacific Railroad was the only major carrier that pulled in sufficient revenue in 2010.

Intermodal rail traffic is maintaining good momentum this autumn even as the international shipping business moving containers on the water remains in the doldrums.

Backers of two competing transportation plans are jockeying for support by selling their initiatives as job creators and taking shots at the other side for funding shortfalls.

Propelled by surging rail equipment demand, railcar and barge maker Greenbrier Companies saw profit jump 64 percent to $12.6 million in the fiscal fourth quarter ending Aug. 31.

Acquisitions, rate hikes and a surge in freight pushed revenue up 38.2 percent to $226.2 million in the third quarter at Roadrunner Transportation System.

TransForce's acquisition of a cross-border, expedited less-than-truckload carrier expands the Canadian trucking giant's reach further into the U.S.

Preliminary net orders for Class 8 trucks defied recessionary expectations in October, rising month-over-month and year-over-year, according to ACT Research.

UPS Freight is rolling out technology that will help less-than-truckload shippers better control the “first mile” of any freight movement, the LTL pickup.

Disciplined management of capacity and pricing, coupled with falling fuel prices, meant better times for trucking companies in September, FTR Associates said.

Vitran’s losses deepened to $3.4 million in the third quarter, compared with a $2.3 million net loss in the second quarter and a $1.9 million net profit a year ago.

BNSF Railway foresees a slow economic recovery and doesn’t expect its freight volume to return to pre-recession peaks until about 2013, a top executive said.

Freightcar America said growing demand for railcars more than doubled revenue to $130.1 million, but the equipment manufacturer said the impact of weather and light maintenance dragged the company to