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Freight traffic for most North American short lines increased 3.1 percent in the week ending July 30 from a week earlier, as intermodal and lumber loadings set new 2011 highs.

Refrigerated trucking operator Frozen Food Express Industries cut its net loss by 25 percent from a year ago to $3.3 m

Railcar builders are finally seeing swelling order books after a long struggle out of recession, and are forecasting even better times ahead.

FreightCar America, an equipment builder that specializes in coal-hauling railcars, reported improved earnings for the second quarter but pointed to “mixed signals” about the pace of econo

Roadrunner Transportation Systems reported a $7.4 million net profit in the second quarter, as the trucker’s total revenue leaped 30.4 percent to $208.3 million.

Railcar builder Greenbrier said it has booked orders in June and July to build another 3,700 railcars valued around $285 million.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said California, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan and Missouri will receive $336.2 million under to buy trains for passenger rail corridors in routes shared with freight ra

Estes Express Lines will raise less-than-truckload rates an average 6.9 percent effective Aug. 8, matching rate hikes by many of its LTL competitors.

Canadian National Railway will spend $165 million to expand a freight yard in Gary, Ind., that it uses to build general freight trains, and to relocate a locomotive repair shop to there from Chicago.<

Freight shipments declined 3.7 percent in July from the previous month, a sign the sluggish economy is slipping, Cass Information Systems said Wednesday.

Arkansas Best, parent of ABF Freight System, returned to the black for the first time in nearly three years with a $5.3 million net profit in the second quarter on a sharp gain in pricing that pushed

Short line railroad owner Genesee & Wyoming signed an agreement to buy Arizona Eastern Railway from Iowa Pacific Holding for $90.1 million in cash.

The value of goods transported by truck and rail between the U.S., Mexico and Canada rose 15.7 percent in May, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics said.

Roadrunner Transportation Systems bought West Coast intermodal specialist The James Brooks Co., a $12 million company in 2010, for approximately $7.5 million.

Diesel prices across the United States fell 1.2 cents in the week ending Aug.1, ending t

Old Dominion Freight Line on Monday combined several existing business units to launch a carrier &ldquo;neutral&rdquo; third-party logistics provider, Vault Logistics.

Michael J. Smid, the chief operating officer of YRC Worldwide who handled the largest carrier less-than-truckload consolidation in history, left the company Friday.

Universal Truckload Service&rsquo;s profit slipped 13.9 percent in the second quarter, despite gains in its core truckload revenue, brokerage and intermodal businesses.

Internet retailing giant Amazon.com plans to open three more regional distribution centers in Tennessee this year, part of a broader strategy to build warehousing and fulfillment facilities across the

Railroad executives might not agree precisely on how much the economy is recovering from its springtime slump, but one thing was clear from the early returns on railroad earnings: They can price for h

Leading YRC Worldwide back to profitability may be the toughest job in trucking, and it belongs to James L. Welch.

As James Welch returns to the less-than-truckload company he left four years ago, his big challenge is getting a much different YRC Worldwide and its new industry dynamics to add up to a profit.

An accord between President Obama and carmakers to sharply boost automobile fuel efficiency will drain tens of billions of dollars from federal road funds, said the American Road & Transportation

Major railroads are seeing intermodal volume in July trail June peak levels by thousands of container and trailer hauls each week, amid a slowdown in boxed imports from Asia.

A 56 percent increase in individual truck brokerage sales shot second quarter revenue at Echo Global Logistics 38 percent higher than a year ago to $151.5 million.

Truckload carrier CRST International expanded its capacity, revenue base and diversified its business by acquiring Specialized Transportation for an undisclosed sum.

Railcar leasing giant GATX raised its outlook for this year on continued signs of strength in the rail freight market in North American and Europe, including higher utilization of its large equipment

Transport Corporation of India, the country&rsquo;s largest integrated supply chain and logistics service provider, said Friday its net profit in the first quarter grew 10 percent year-over-year to $3

Truckers that dray containers to and from many of the ocean terminals in the Port of New York and New Jersey say there aren&rsquo;t enough chassis available in the ocean carriers&rsquo; chassis pool t

More than half of the truckload carriers polled in a recent survey said they would be interested in buying or selling their business, Transport Capital Partners said.

Knight Transportation kicked its profit into higher gear in the second quarter, but still struggled with higher purchased transportation, fuel and other costs.

Intermodal middleman Pacer International&rsquo;s profit tripled year-over-year in the second quarter despite shrinkage in top-line receipts, as the company transitions from wholesaling train space to

Old Dominion Freight Line increased its profit 83.1 percent to $39.4 million in the second quarter, as revenue rose 30.4 percent from a year ago to $480.3 million.

American Railcar Industries is seeing a big rise in orders to manufacture new units this year, with 2,200 more placed so far in July.

YRC Worldwide named Jamie G. Pierson, a managing director with Alvarez & Marsal North America, interim chief financial officer while it seeks a permanent CFO.

RailAmerica, operator of 43 small railroads in the U.S. and Canada, swung to an $8.7 million profit in the April-June quarter on continuing operations, from a $4.2 million loss a year earlier.

Intermodal service provider Hub Group&rsquo;s second quarter profit rose 49 percent year-over-year to $14.4 million, powered by a 12 percent increase in shipments loaded onto railcars.

Multiregional less-than-truckload carrier Saia increased its year-over-year profit 41 percent to $8.3 million in the second quarter, as its revenue rose 15 percent to $266 million.

Higher costs and less efficient use of its trucks drove Covenant Transportation Group&rsquo;s profit down 42.7 percent year-over-year in the second quarter to $1.7 million.

The Commonwealth of Virginia is offering shippers a tax credit for moving containers off the highways to the marine highway or railways, Virginia Secretary of Transportation Sean Connaughton said Tues