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President Obama is keeping open the option of drawing oil out of the U.S.

Two national trucking groups called on the Department of Transportation to begin researching the benefits of crashworthiness standards for heavy trucks.

Coal and coke mining firm Oxbow Mining is suing the two largest U.S.

Ryder System expanded its truck leasing operations in the United Kingdom by acquiring British heavy truck leasing firm Hill Hire for approximately $252 million.

Freight volume carried by for-hire transportation companies in April fell 1 percent from the previous month but was up 3.7 percent from April 2010, the Transportation Department reported.

The board of directors at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce elected Iowa trucking industry executive John Ruan III as chairman for a one-year term.

Rising floodwaters on the Missouri River have begun disrupting some rail operations, just the latest in a series of weather problems for U.S. railroads in recent weeks.

North American owners of railcars parked 2,855 additional cars during May, expanding the fleet of idled units at a time when bulk rail freight shipments had weakened from earlier in the spring.

Geodis Wilson strengthened its position in the U.S.

Con-way Truckload, looking to hire more truck drivers in the Western U.S., reopened a driver orientation site in Phoenix that closed during the recession.

Old Dominion Freight Line, a less-than-truckload carrier, is driving deeper into drayage, opening a container drayage facility in Mobile, Ala.

Eastern U.S. railroads CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern Railway each planned to hold groundbreaking ceremonies Monday on separate intermodal hub construction projects.

Shippers are bracing for higher transportation costs, even as the economy slows, according to a second-quarter survey of more than 2,000 logistics managers.

A tentative contract between the United Transportation Union and major U.S.

German logistics giant Deutsche Post DHL purchased Standard Forwarding, a five-state less-than-truckload motor carrier in East Moline, Ill.

The State Assembly will most likely not address a bill that would classify drayage truck drivers at California ports and intermodal rail yards as employees, although it could be taken up next year.

Freight transportation employment was virtually flat last month while a closely watched survey of non-manufacturing activity showed a sharp drop in import growth.

Union Pacific Railroad will pay $25 million to settle a longstanding dispute with the Environmental Protection Agency over lead cleanup costs for a Superfund site in Omaha, Neb.

Leaders from Teamsters union locals around the country will review a tentative national car-haul agreement when they meet in Nashville June 13.

Truckload capacity appears to be tightening again, after loosening in April, according to a key measure of industry equipment supply and demand.

The Association of American Railroads will have a new person serving as its top lobbyist, as Laurie Knight will take the post of senior vice president of government affairs starting July 25, and repla

YRC Worldwide is once again contributing to Teamsters pensions, but at much lower level than it did before suspending those contributions in July 2009.

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Transportation and logistics giant Con-way will send $200,000 to help tornado survivors rebuild in Joplin, Mo., the home of its Con-way Truckload division.

The average price of diesel fuel fell for the fourth straight week in the period ending May 31, sliding 4.9 cents to $3.948 a gallon, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said.

Roadrunner Transportation Systems acquired M. Bruenger Trucking, a truckload carrier with headquarters in Wichita, Kans., for approximately $10.6 million.

The Department of Transportation is working on changes in rail regulations that could save the industry more than $1 billion over the next two decades.

The value of surface transportation trade between the U.S.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will delay the release of its controversial new truck driver hours-of-service rules until October.

Truckload giant Swift Transportation expects to raise its contract rates 4 percent this year, the CEO of the $2.9 billion trucking operator said Friday.

When Clarence Gooden, chief marketing officer for eastern U.S.

Despite winter storms and rising energy costs, publicly owned trucking companies gained ground in the first quarter, buoyed in part by an expansion in manufacturing.

Trucking technology is approaching a crossroads as safety regulations and economic necessity drive more trucking companies to purchase and plug into everything from electronic onboard recorders to net

U.S. farmers and processors are gearing up for another big year of corn exports — in high-value solid and liquid form.

Landstar System is increasing its number of business capacity owners, the owner-operators who operate trucks for the $2.3 billion transportation company.

Net orders for commercial truck trailers dropped 30 percent in April from March after climbing for 18 straight months, according to ACT Research.

Volvo said it cut its carbon footprint delivering goods and products around Europe by 22 percent between 2006 and 2010.

Direct ChassisLink, Maersk Line’s chassis rental business, is adding Kansas City as a start-stop location to its chassis program in the Midwest.

Intermodal rail traffic for U.S.

Following Missouri’s lead, the state of Kansas is suspending some motor carrier rules to expedite relief shipments heading to tornado victims in Joplin, Mo.