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State-owned rail operator Container Corporation of India reported a $184 million net profit for fiscal 2010-11 ending March 31, up 5.5 percent from a year earlier.

Strong heavy-duty truck sales drove first-quarter revenue up 47 percent to $3.28 billion at Paccar. Excluding financial services, net sales were up 53 percent.

Heartland Express increased operating revenue 10.4 percent to $127.7 million in the first quarter, raising net income 25.2 percent to $14.9 million.

Higher demand for heavy trucks helped boost revenue and earnings at component manufacturer Eaton, which reported $3.8 billion in total sales in the first quarter.

Union Pacific's freight volume is increasing steadily since the depths of the economic recession, but there is no concern in Omaha about UP's ability to handle the growing traffic.

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Intermodal service provider Hub Group reported a $10.5 million profit for the first quarter, up 21 percent from a year earlier.

A key measure of truck capacity and demand dropped 10.7 percent last week, indicating some easing of over-the-road capacity constraints in mid-April.

Spring floods across the northern Great Plains are closing some tracks for major railroads and short lines, delaying some shipments and detouring others.

Rising freight demand is spilling across borders, sending spot market truck freight volume in Canada up 35 percent year-over-year in March, said TransCore.

Perella Weinberg Partners is buying the railcar leasing unit of insurance giant American International Group.

Diesel prices climbed 2.7 cents last week to a national retail average of $4.105 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Truck driver pay is heading up, with a 2.2 percent increase in February from January and a 4.6 percent increase year-over-year, according to Longbow Research.

Choptank Transport, an asset-based third-party logistics company in Preston, Md., opened a regional office in Atlanta, expanding its footprint in the Southeast.

Transplace’s purchase of SCO Logistics is aimed at bringing revenue, expanded services, new customers and new talent to the Dallas-based logistics operator.

North America’s trains are getting longer every year.

Online marketplace uShip, which is doing for shipping what eBay did for sales, is moving deeper into the world of industrial transportation.

The late-night budget deal between President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner did not at first appear to make a real dent in the big surface transportation programs tied to freight operations.

Expect North America’s freight railroads to have plenty of good things to say about rail market trends when they report earnings for the first quarter.

When mega-ships disgorge containers at U.S. ports, will mega-trucks haul them away?

Increased inventory restocking and improving industrial output helped the U.S.

Truckload capacity slackened slightly in the week ending April 11 but is still much tighter than it was a year ago, according to a key measure of capacity and demand.

A newly finalized $10 million federal grant should help the Port of Vancouver, Wash., get its long-planned West Vancouver Freight Access project done, which the Department of Transportation says will

Spot market truckload rates rose 4 percent in March from February and were up 15 percent year-over-year, according to TransCore Freight Solutions.

Strong intermodal and trucking demand in the first quarter pushed revenue up 18 percent to $1 billion at J.B. Hunt Transportation Services, Lowell, Ark.

Truck freight brokers moved 10 percent more loads per month in 2010 than in 2009, underscoring growing use of brokers by shippers, according to TransCore.

New data showing a lower rate of truck-involved accident deaths indicate more restrictive hours of service rules for truck drivers are unnecessary, the American Trucking Associations says.

Freight shipping declined about 1.5 percent month-to-month in February, the U.S. Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics reports.

Online transportation marketplace uShip is opening its doors to freight brokers, allowing brokers to offer loads to truckers on the Web-based auction site.

A panel of appellate court judges will decide the fate of an unprecedented legal battle between two major trucking companies and the Teamsters union.

DB Schenker is planning to launch scheduled container rail services between Germany and inland China later this year aimed at shippers that currently use ocean shipping.

A three-judge appellate court panel heard arguments April 12 in an ABF Freight System lawsuit against the Teamsters union and subsidiaries of YRC Worldwide.

Stronger freight demand in March pushed the Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index up 2.7 percent month-to-month, reversing declines in January and February.

Short line operator RailAmerica is buying the assets of three small freight railroads in Alabama for a total price of $12.7 million in cash.

Pending budget cuts from last week’s deal to avert a government shutdown will take a deeper bite out of transportation funds, but industry and government sources say the ones that could most aff

TransContainer, Russia’s largest rail container operator, increased first quarter traffic by 23.5 percent from a year ago with international shipments growing almost three times faster than dome

The select group of trucking companies with more than a billion dollars in annual revenue expanded last year, as three carriers shot past the revenue threshold.

Railcar owners across the U.S., Canada and Mexico took 22,667 cars of various types out of storage during March, shrinking the idled fleet to 18.7 percent of the total as freight traffic continues to

CN acquired more than 1,000 new containers, which the railroad expects to use to serve manufacturers and distributors of grocery and consumer goods in domestic markets across Canada.

Diesel prices soared 10.2 cents last week to a national average of $4.078 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.