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The Department of Transportation got a flurry of rail grants locked in just under the wire last week, obligating over $300 million to projects so states could start spending them even if the federal g

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration released plans Friday for a new pilot trucking project with Mexico "to test and demonstrate" the ability of Mexican truckers to operate safely within th

Washington state and federal officials reached agreement to formally obligate another $145 million to that state's passenger rail program.

Two years after container ship lines began moving away from their 55-year-old practice of supplying U.S.

Department of Transportation officials will quickly sort through a pile of applications as they prepare to redistribute $2.43 billion in grants, most of which came from money Florida turned down for a

Intermodal marketing giant Hub Group demonstrated its faith in the economic recovery last week with the $83 million acquisition of Exel Transportation Services.

Using inland and coastal waterways to haul more cargo-laden containers and trailers would add “abundant and cost-effective new freight capacity,” while cutting highway maintenance costs, T

From the manufacturing floor, the trucking business has rarely looked better.

A $3.3 million federal grant to build 2 miles of track in upstate New York will ease “significant congestion” for a freight rail yard and Amtrak passenger service, said the Department of Transportatio

Truck drivers should be required to use electronic devices to log their hours of service, the American Trucking Associations said Thursday.

The latest week's bulk and large-unit railcar loadings at major U.S. freight railroads were the highest since late 2008, or before the traffic plunge that followed the financial collapse that year.

A key measure of truckload capacity shot up 5.9 percent, or 9.1 points, indicating that truckload capacity tightened in the first week of April as freight demand increased.

Railcar and barge builder Greenbrier Companies almost broke even in its fiscal second quarter ending Feb.

A bill introduced in the Senate Thursday would raise the heavy truck weight limit to 97,000 pounds, breaking a 20-year federal freeze on truck sizes and weights.

Long-haul and regional trucking operator Integrated Freight acquired Cross Creek Trucking of Medford, Ore., extending its reach to the Pacific Northwest.

The Federal Railroad Administration's permanent ban on use of electronic devices, including cellphones, became effective March 28, as

Freight shipments jumped 6.9 percent in March, with tonnage increasing across transportation modes, according to the Cass Freight In

The surge in orders for heavy trucks isn't big enough to prevent a shortfall in available truck capacity in 2011 and 2012, according to ACT Research.

The Obama administration's embattled passenger rail program got a solid line of endorsements this week, when applications poured in seeking $10 billion in grants for 90 track projects, most of which w

Net orders for heavy trucks jumped 20.2 percent in March to 29,200 units, the largest monthly order number since May 2006, according to ACT Research.

With New Mexico Gov.

Savage Companies and Kansas City Southern have entered into a joint development agreement as the companies look to take advantage of dev

Diesel prices climbed 4.4 cents last week to a national average of $3.976 per gallon, the highest level in two and a half years, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Intermodal transportation giant Hub Group acquired Exel Transportation Services, a $717 million third-party logistics company, from Deutsche Post subsidiary Exel.

Pacer International named Daniel L.

The intermodal market is heating up so much that rate increases could be the strongest in a decade.

For shippers, the search for truck capacity is like playing dominos.

Transportation management software delivered under the software-as-a-service umbrella is evolving as next-generation hybrids and cloud computing delivery models enter the marketplace.

The issue of data ownership is an obstacle to broader acceptance of cloud-based collaborative TMS models.

Hours-of-service restrictions and CSA 2010 aren’t the only issues motor carriers are dealing with.

YRC Worldwide named veteran executive Phil Gaines senior vice president and chief financial officer of its nationwide less-than-truckload subsidiary, YRC Inc.

Express transportation giants UPS and FedEx joined with AT&T, Verizon and Pepsi-Frito Lay in a coalition to promote the use of alternative fuel vehicles.

Americans drove more miles last year, but fewer were killed on the nation's highways, the Department of Transportation said Friday.

Union Pacific brought out a rarely used rotary snowplow to clear away heavy snow which halted train traffic across California's Donner Pass for five days in March.

Trucking showed the strongest employment growth in March among transportation and warehousing industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Deutsche Post DHL and Ryder System are rolling out electric, hybrid and natural gas trucks, from delivery vans to heavy vehicles, in New York and California.

A major rail corridor project in Illinois gets under way this weekend, as crews begin the biggest upgrade of tracks in a route owned by Union Pacific Railroad so that 110-mph Amtrak passenger trains c

European Union trust busters raided the offices of German rail operator Deutsche Bahn in an investigation into allegations it is abusing its dominant position in the rail freight market.

Canadian National Railway sold a section of track in and around Toronto to the Ontario agency Metrolinx for about $308 million.