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For Lucas Oil, a private fleet is more than a means of transportation. It’s also a rolling laboratory.

Terminal operators in Los Angeles-Long Beach face the conundrum of having to run up to five night and weekend gates each week to prevent gridlock in the harbor, all while losing money every day they o

When you’re already battling historic floods on several rivers at once, any new rain surely pours.

Excess capacity may be building on the high seas, but it evaporates quickly once freight reaches dry land. Unlike container shipping lines, U.S.

After blocking Southern California port expansion projects for seven years and forcing ports to address air emissions health risks, the Natural Resources Defense Council is turning its attention to Ca

Those large blue boxes with the familiar APL logo that started appearing on U.S. highways and railroads in May aren’t ocean containers, though it’s tough to tell the difference.

When Lucas Oil transportation chief Marty Martin needs a truck, he usually doesn’t call a trucking company. He goes out to his dock or calls one of his own drivers.

UPS Freight will take a 6.9 percent general rate hike Aug. 1, a move that could signal a stronger across-the-board increases in less-than-truckload pricing.

Baird Equity Research is dropping its coverage of YRC Worldwide, as the trucking giant heads toward a financia

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is adopting a five-year strategic plan that looks beyond truck and bus companies to include shippers and brokers in attempts to improve highway safety.&

Mexico may increase the $2.4 billion in punitive tariffs it places on select U.S. goods if the Obama administration fails to implement a cross-border trucking program.

Railroads are expanding their share of the North American freight market in non-traditional areas, with Canadian railroads becoming increasingly competitive in the U.S., eastern railroads returning to

APL IndiaLinx, which has been running container rail service in the country since 2007, double-stacked 90 40-foot boxes on a train from Mundra Port to an inland container rail terminal at Kishangarh,

Looking to calm concerns over moves to allow Mexican trucking companies to operate in the United States, U.S.

Opponents of a new cross-border trucking program with Mexico fear it will draw thousands of Mexican truckers into the U.S., threatening American jobs.

Shippers are paying more to move truckload freight as both large and small trucking companies hike rates, according to a survey by Transport Capital Partners.

Ocean carriers are offering a menu of new services to improve the supply chain efficiency and reduce the cost of delivering cargo from Asia to U.S.

YRC Worldwide’s stock took a wild ride on Wall Street this week, almost tripling in value on Monday on sudden and unexplained trading before apparent short-selling sent shares falling back more

Smaller shippers plan to increase transportation spending this year despite economic uncertainty, according to a customer survey conducted by Saia.

The average price of diesel fuel across the U.S.

Kombiverkehr, Europe’s biggest intermodal operator, reported traffic and revenue rose to near record levels in 2010 but warned infrastructure bottlenecks will slow growth this year.

The decline in truck tonnage accelerated in May, as the seasonally adjusted for-hire truck tonnage index dropped 2.3 percent

Small railroads at mid-June posted their highest load volumes of 2011 for intermodal containers or trailers, stone aggregate used in construction and ores needed for metal production.

Federal truck safety penalties against motor carriers jumped 23 percent in 2010, according to data from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

It may take federal investigators more than a year to determine why a truck driver smashed into an Amtrak train in Nevada Friday, killing at least six people.

Bradley S. Jacobs is buying into transportation in a big way.

The Los Angeles-Long Beach clean-trucks programs are nearing the end of their first phase, and despite many controversies, the initiatives exceeded all expectations and have set new standards for redu

No one, it seems, is happy with less-than-truckload pricing.

There have been plenty of words, warnings and venting as freight shippers and railroads vie to win over rail regulators who could overhaul decades of federal policies.

Shipments of automobiles and other vehicles on North American railroads jumped to their highest point since mid-April in the week ending June 18, in a sign the auto industry is overcoming supply chain

A new agreement between Norfolk Southern Railway and the Illinois Department of Transportation will allow work to start on a Chicago rail project at what industry officials call one of the nation&rsqu

The American Trucking Associations hailed the release of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve but urged the White House to expand offshore drilling.

Front Royal, Va., is one of those little towns along the Shenandoah River known for its Civil War history, gorgeous scenery at the northern end of the Skyline Drive and quaint traditions, such as an a

Intermodal infrastructure development in the United States is at a juncture that could lead to the development of a third generation of intermodal systems and services.

Activity in the industrial real estate sector is building after being in the doldrums for more than two years.

The driver turnover rate at large truckload fleets rose to an annualized rate of 75 percent in the first quarter of 2011, the American Trucking Associations said.

FedEx Freight returned to profitability in its last quarter after completing the merger of its long-haul and regional less-than-truckload operations.

European Union trust busters launched an investigation into whether a $322 million rescue of French shipping company SeaFrance by state-owned railway SNCF breached state aid rules.

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FedEx increased revenue 12 percent in the quarter and 13 percent in the fiscal year that ended May 31, reporting total annual revenue of $39.3 billion.