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Harbor truckers have complained for years that marine terminal gates are a source of lengthy yet preventable delays in the transportation supply chain.

The U.S. Postal Service on Friday said it is considering laying off some 120,000 employees, about 21 percent of its work force, as it faces a second year of losses totaling more than $8 billion.

Caterpillar Chairman and CEO Doug Oberhelman called for U.S. policymakers to launch a strong infrastructure repair program to upgrade ports and domestic transportation networks.

U.S. retail sales rose 0.5 percent in July, and business inventories grew in June for the 18th straight month but at the slowest rate in more than a year, the Commerce Department said.

TransCore’s North American Freight Index rose 22 percent year-over-year in July, the seventh straight same-month increase for the spot market truckload index.

The head of heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar said his company is still hiring in August as demand continues to grow for its product line, although he worries about the economic outlook.

Shippers shifted freight from all-truck modes to intermodal at the fastest pace in years during the second quarter, according to a closely watched survey by the Wolfe Trahan research group.

The nation’s top bulk trucking companies increased revenue 12.3 percent in 2010, with combined sales reaching $3.1 billion, according to SJ Consulting Group.

Weaker coal traffic pushed rail carloadings down 6.8 percent in July at short line operator RailAmerica compared to the same month a year ago.

Canadian National Railway and China’s CNBM Forest Products Trading agreed to use a new CN facility in Vancouver, B.C., to transload Canadian lumber into China-bound containers starting this fall

Two key shipping associations are protesting a proposal that could extend a trucking safety regulatory agency’s authority to their operations.

Standard & Poor’s Financial Services upgraded the credit rating of struggling trucking operator YRC Worldwide Tuesday, giving it a “CCC” rating.

The Transportation Department’s Freight Transportation Index rose 2.6 percent in June, the index’s largest month-to-month increase since November 2009.

Construction is under way on a major intermodal yard and locomotive refueling complex for Union Pacific Railroad at Santa Teresa, N.M., just inside the state border west of El Paso, Texas.

Midwest Railcar announced plans to expand its fleet by 2,400 cars, both new and used, by the end of 2012.

Trac Intermodal said it will expand its new damage-waiver program for leased chassis to New York-New Jersey and Baltimore on Sept. 1, and nationwide by year’s end.

North American rail hauls of intermodal containers and trailers rose 6.5 percent in the second quarter from a year earlier, as domestic traffic gains outpaced those from marine boxes.

Trucking industry groups and environmental activists are hailing new heavy truck fuel efficiency standards that could cut oil use 530 million barrels by 2018.

President Obama on Tuesday introduced fuel efficiency standards for heavy trucks projected to save truck operators $50 billion from 2014 through 2018.

A key measure of truckload capacity rose 8.8 percent last week, climbing for the second straight week after five weeks of sequential declines.

BNSF Railway is increasing its capital spending budget for 2011 by $300 million to $3.8 billion, as it repairs and improves its network damaged by Midwest floods and captures economic incentives.

AutoInfo, the parent of non-asset trucking and logistics firm Sunteck Transport, increased its net profit 24.3 percent in the second quarter to $905,000.

BNSF Railway’s profit rose 14.4 percent in the second quarter from a year earlier to $690 million, as traffic grew only about 3 percent but per-unit receipts swelled 10.6 percent.

Transportation stocks took a deep dive on Wall Street on Monday, riding a huge selloff in response to the downgrading of U.S. debt that sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average down 635 points.

North American owners of railcars parked 707 more of them in July, as many categories of freight rail traffic slowed from June levels for most of the month and as flooding continued to hamper Midwest

FedEx Freight will raise its non-contract truck pricing 6.75 percent on Sept. 6, the nation’s largest less-than-truckload motor carrier said Monday.

Car-hauling Teamsters approved a National Master Automobile Transporters Agreement that will raise their wages $1.35 per hour over four years.

President Obama is set to unveil final rules Tuesday that for the first time set fuel efficiency and carbon emission standards for a wide range of commercial trucks and buses.

Truckload carriers seem to be traveling a different route than the rest of the sputtering U.S. economy.

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Geoffrey Giovanetti has a favorite East Coast port gateway for seaborne imports of wine and spirits destined for the Midwest, but he generally leaves the choice of ports and the intermodal facilities

The first half of 2011 hasn’t been good for the Port of Virginia for reasons largely beyond its control.

Ports from Oakland, Calif., to New York are adopting clean-trucks programs that will require independent owner-operators who in many cases make $35,000 a year or less to shell out more than $50,000 fo

Consolidated Chassis Management plans to take over day-to-day management of its six intermodal chassis pools and allow shippers and motor carriers to join container ship lines in supplying the pools w

The U.S. Postal Service lost $3.1 billion in its third fiscal quarter ending June 30, deepening the Postal Service's financial woes as it gets closer to running out of cash.

Trucking employment was essentially flat in July, with for-hire carriers adding only 1,300 jobs for a 0.1 percent increase from June to about 1.28 million employees, according to seasonally adjusted d

NuStar Logistics and EOG Resources, an oil and gas company, jointly develop and own a facility at St.

Con-way increased its net profit 111 percent to $29.4 million in the second quarter, as the company’s revenue increased 3.2 percent to $1.35 billion.

North American rail shipments of intermodal containers and trailers threw off a slowdown in the final week of July, rising 3.4 percent to a new volume peak so far in 2011 of 301,393 units.

Capacity at a group of six large U.S.