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The White House said Monday it was considering its options as to whether it should open the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve as unrest in the Middle East sent prices for crude oil and refined prod

YRC Worldwide Chief Financial Officer Sheila Taylor will leave the troubled trucking giant March 31 as it attempts to recruit new leadership and restructure its finances.

The Federal Railroad Administration, in a legal settlement with the Association of American Railroads, agreed to issue new regulations that could scale back the amount of Class I rail track that must

The cargo carriers typically travel in a convoy, a line of trucks and escort vehicles, figuring there’s strength in numbers.

Regulators at the Surface Transportation Board insist they are not about to make sudden moves to dramatically toughen federal oversight.

Nine years after first making loans, the federal Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing program is stumbling.

Petroleum provides only a little more than 6 percent of the carload traffic for Canada’s two Class I railroads, but the carriers say energy may offer a bright future.

Khalid Ali Aldawsari studied more than English and chemical engineering in his two years as a U.S. college student.

The debate over truck driver hours-of-service is bumping up against shipper docks, as some truckers and an influential member of Congress are calling for limits on the time shippers and receivers can

The future of Canada’s Class I railroads is tied inextricably to trade with the Asia-Pacific region, and the freight moving to and from the U.S.

Kansas City Southern, operator of the smallest of North America’s Class I railroads, is redesigning a federal loan request with an eye to the Obama administration’s focus on making rail lo

One way shippers and truckers can mitigate their risk to cargo theft in Mexico, security analysts say, is to develop strong relationships with key law enforcement officers and agencies.

Trucking hired 11,000 workers in February, accounting for half of a monthly gain in transportation and warehousing jobs, according to federal employment statistics.

Transportation costs could rise as much as 20 percent if the Department of Transportation cuts the time truck drivers may spend behind the wheel, the National Retail Federation says.

The Surface Transportation Board says NSF Railway’s method for limiting a shipper’s coal dust dispersion on its tracks is “not reasonable” but is leaving the door open for rail

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 14-1 to approve the Railroad Antitrust Enforcement Act, the latest effort by Sen.

UPS agreed to pay a $1.3 million fine and to hire independent inspectors for its trucks in New York in a settlement with the attorney general there.

Business interests hailed a U.S.-Mexico agreement on cross-border trucking that is sure to be

The U.S. and Mexico reached a preliminary agreement on resolving a cross-border trucking dispute that led to $2.4 billion in Mexican tariffs on U.S. goods.

Heavy truck orders slowed 11 percent in February, but remained high enough to keep truck plants humming well into 2011, according to ACT Research.

Americans took to the road in increasing numbers last year, taking advantage of relatively low fuel prices as increased confidence in the economic recovery.

Nearly 150 members of Congress urged the Obama administration to drop its proposed hours-of-service rule and keep the current work rules for truck drivers.

Truckload capacity slackened slightly in the last two weeks of February but remains significantly tighter than in recent months, according to Longbow Research.

The Surface Transportation Board's current sole Republican member, Vice Chairman Charles D.

Kuehne+Nagel reported 2010 net profit grew 28.7 percent from the previous year on sharply higher ocean and air freight volumes and gave an upbeat assessment of prospects for 2011.

Trucking passes on to customers substantially less of the total cost of transportation than competing modes, and that distorts competition, according to a report by the Government Accountability Offic

Average retail diesel prices last week across the United States rocketed 14.3 cents to a national average of $3.716 per gallon, the biggest one-week surge in more than two-and-a-half years, according

YRC Worldwide said it reached an agreement with key stakeholders on a comprehensive restructuring plan, meeting a Feb. 28 deadline.

The American Trucking Associations is raising the ante in its challenge to the science behind proposed new truck driver hours of service rules with a statement that studies linking length of sleep tim

Universal Truckload Services increased its operating revenue 20.4 percent to $605.9 million last year, aided b

A new agreement signed by the Washington State Department of Transportation, BNSF Railway and Amtrak clears the way to spend $590 million of a federal grant to upgrade freight tracks for expanded pass

Shippers don’t need a road map to know where truckload rates are going, but they may need an altimeter. Truck pricing is moving up and is likely to climb higher.

Get ready for the Golden Age of intermodal shipments across North America’s rail network.

There’s a new yardstick for capacity among the many figures the shipping world uses to measure available space: hours.

The critical feature of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration proposal on hours-of-service isn’t necessarily the potential reduction from 11 to 10 hours.

When Florida Gov.

Canadian Pacific and the Montreal Port Authority on Friday signed a collaborative agreement that sets standards for performance and productivity across their joint supply chains.

Port authorities in Virginia, South Carolina and Georgia are joining the Coalition for Responsible Transportation, giving the

The American Trucking Associations urged the White House to tap domestic energy sources, such as offshore oil deposits, as rising oil prices increased fuel costs.

President Obama this week named BNSF Railways' Chairman and CEO Matthew K.