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Truckload carriers are holding onto rate increases despite a decline in truck tonnage and loads, according to a report from Jefferies Equity Research Americas.

Seasonally adjusted for-hire truck tonnage fell 0.7 percent in April, decelerating from a revised 1.9 perc

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is making $1 million immediately available in quick release emergency funds, allowing Minnesota’s Department of Transportation to keep repairing roads and bri

The average price of diesel fell 6.4 cents in the past week to $3.997 a gallon across the U.S., the first time it has been below $4 in nearly two months, according to the U.S.

Three Joplin, Mo., employees of Con-way Truckload and the spouse of one employee were injured in Sunday's tornado, the trucking firm said.

Missouri’s departments of transportation and public safety are helping truckers expedite shipments of equipment and relief supplies to tornado victims in Joplin as rescue workers and survivors c

The seven largest railroads added 935 employees to their U.S. operations from mid-March to mid-April, for a new high since the recovery began in 2009.

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Rail products supplier L.B. Foster is in the hunt for a new CEO, as Stan L. Hasselbusch said he will retire from that post effective Dec. 31.

It may not be the worst, but it’s bad enough.

If Congress and the Obama administration are serious about fixing the United States’ aging surface transportation system, and move beyond repairs to true long-term investments, they will have to

Supply chain education is spreading beyond the campus and reaching for the high school classroom.

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The recovery gave urgency to expedited truck transportation in 2010, as the five largest U.S. expedited carriers increased their combined revenue 22.2 percent.

U.S. freight tonnage will grow 24 percent through 2022, with trucking hauling 70 percent of all freight by that year, the American Trucking Associations said.

For-hire trucking software provider TMW Systems acquired Appian Logistics Software, extending its reach into the private fleet and logistics markets.

Regional less-than-truckload carrier Pitt Ohio will purchase 125 tractors and 100 trailers this year, as the company benefits from a “solid” if not robust economic recovery.

Intermodal traffic on U.S.

Net orders for heavy trucks surged 31 percent in April from March, an ordering pace that is creating a bulging backlog that will strain truck production lines.

CSX Transportation said it will invest an additional $160 million over the next several years to complete the National Gateway between the mid-Atlantic and Midwest, bringing the project to the full fu

TransCore’s North American Freight Index fell 14 percent in April from March, when the index reached its highest level since 2005 after three months of posting record numbers.

A key cross-border trucking route linking Western Canada and the U.S. is open to traffic Tuesday after being closed for nearly a month because of severe flooding.

Average diesel prices across the U.S. fell for the second week in a row in the past week, sliding 4.3 cents a gallon to the lowest point in more than a month, the U.S.

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected BNSF Railway’s attempt to overturn a 2009 regulatory case decision that the railroad charged unreasonable rates on some coal shipments.

President Obama gave a strong push to a transportation infrastructure program that builds on the 2009 stimulus program to repair roads, re-engineer the rail system and “maintain a world-class lo

Any widespread shutdown of train systems in the aftermath of an attack — even for a few days — would quickly ripple through the U.S.

In the days after the May 1 raid that killed Osama bin Laden, news that al Qaeda, the terrorist group he founded and led, considered an attack on the U.S.

Less-than-truckload carriers spent the better part of last year stuck behind truckload operators, struggling to raise rates.

The number of grain barges unloading at New Orleans in recent weeks has dropped 14 percent from average levels for this time of year, the U.S.

Demand for marine containers grew faster in this year’s first quarter than for domestic intermodal containers or trailers, the Intermodal Association of North America said.

Market conditions are worsening for U.S. shippers as truck capacity tightens and fuel prices and surcharges rise, an index released by FTR Associates shows.

Kirby Corp., a major U.S.

Bulk shipper costs are escalating for the second quarter, an industry analyst said, because of heavy flooding on major U.S. rivers.

The Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index fell 0.5 percent in April after rising 2.7 percent in March, underscoring what the index sponsors called a “fitful” recovery.

GE Transportation says it will open a locomotive manufacturing facility in Texas, with production to start next year.

Carload traffic on North America’s largest railroads slipped 1 percent in the most recent week, extending a slide the rails have seen for the past month even as intermodal volume maintains stron

Railcar and barge manufacturer Greenbrier Companies named Mark Eitzen as vice president and general manager of its Gunderson factory in Portland, Ore., the company’s key freight car plant in Nor

Canadian National is spending nearly US$39 million to add tracks and make rail yard improvements on busy lanes in and east of Edmonton, Alberta, that handle rail traffic for Canada and the U.S.

A major retail shipper says ocean carriers have not stopped providing chassis for imported container moves despite widespread shipping company announcements and that he’ll try to opt out of any

Rep. Paul Tonko, D-N.Y., will re-introduce a bill Wednesday aimed at creating safer and more secure parking spaces for long-haul truck drivers.