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Roadrunner Buys Drayage Operator for $20 Million
William B. Cassidy |
Roadrunner Transportation Systems, a less-than-truckload and truckload carrier, acquired intermodal operator Morgan Southern for $20 million in cash.
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LTL
YRC Reports $23 Million Fourth Quarter Profit
William B. Cassidy |
YRC Worldwide broke into the black in the fourth quarter, reporting a $23 million net profit on $1.09 billion in revenue, and cut its full-year loss to $322 million.
Trucking News
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LTL
Rails Seek Delay of STB Competition Hearing
John D. Boyd |
The railroad industry is asking the Surface Transportation Board to put off its scheduled May 3 hearing on whether regulators should order freight railroads to give their shippers greater access to co
Rail News
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North-American rail
ABF Freight Posts $58 Million Loss for 2010
William B. Cassidy |
ABF Freight System lost $7.4 million in the fourth quarter and $58.1 million in 2010 as it struggled to raise pricing, control costs and get back to profitability.
Trucking News
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LTL
Chicago Intermodal Starts to Dig Out from Storm
John D. Boyd |
Chicago, the continent's biggest rail hub area and host to numerous intermodal terminals, was just starting on Feb.
Rail News
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North-American rail
Montreal, CN Conclude Terminal Operator Agreements
Peter T. Leach |
The Montreal Port Authority and the two companies that operate the port's three key container terminals on Thursday announced two level-of-service agreements that are intended to produce supply chain
Maritime
Maritime
Forwarding
North-American rail
DOT Issues Strong Intermodal Rail Endorsement
John D. Boyd |
The Department of Transportation has sent the Surface Transportation Board a strong endorsement of intermodal service at major railroads, appearing to weigh in against a possible expansion of STB regu
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North-American rail
Landstar Sales Climb to $2.4 Billion in 2010
William B. Cassidy |
Landstar System boosted its net income 29.6 percent year-over-year in the fourth quarter to $24.1 million, while its revenue rose 7.3 percent to $587.5 million.
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Con-way Reports Slim Profit for 2010
William B. Cassidy |
Transportation and logistics operator Con-way returned to the black in 2010, reporting a $4 million profit for the year compared with a $110.9 million loss in 2009.
LTL
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C.H. Robinson Revenue Hits $9.3 Billion in 2010
William B. Cassidy |
Higher shipment volume helped boost C.H. Robinson's profit 17.6 percent in the fourth quarter to $103.2 million as revenue rose 15.8 percent to $2.3 billion.
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A. Duie Pyle Plans Routes with Descartes System
Thomas L. Gallagher |
Less-than-truckload carrier A.
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J.B. Hunt Tracks Storm-Bound Drivers on Facebook
William B. Cassidy |
J.B.
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Appellate Court to Expedite ABF-YRC Lawsuit
William B. Cassidy |
ABF Freight System's lawsuit challenging Teamster wage and pension concessions at YRC Worldwide is on a fast track toward a hearing in a federal appeals court.
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LTL
UPS Freight Passes $2 Billion Revenue Mark
William B. Cassidy |
UPS Freight didn't increase less-than-truckload shipment volume much in 2010, but its LTL revenue leaped 10.9 percent to $2 billion, a sign higher rates are sticking.
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LTL
ODFL Profit Jumps to $76 Million on Rate Gains
William B. Cassidy |
Old Dominion Freight Line more than doubled its profit for the full year and fourth quarter, as a 19.9 percent increase in shipments boosted revenue in late 2010.
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LTL
Winter Storms Disrupt Trucking, Rail Traffic
William B. Cassidy |
The massive winter storm hitting a broad swath of the U.S. is delaying or stopping truck and train transport, as states shut icy highways or impose truck limits.
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LTL
Truck brokers
Freight Braces for Winter Storm Disruptions
John D. Boyd |
Major freight carriers are warning customers to expect service delays and shipment rerouting this week across a broad swath of the U.S.
Rail News
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North-American rail
3PL Jacobson Expands into Europe with Rhenus
Thomas L. Gallagher |
Jacobson Companies, a global 3PL headquartered in Des Moines, Iowa, is expanding into Europe with the help of a strategic partnership with Rhenus Logistics, a $3.7 billion logistics service provider b
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Forwarding
LTL
Ryder Expands Dedicated Contract Carriage Business
William B. Cassidy |
Ryder System completed the acquisition of California-based trucking operator The Scully Companies on Monday, expanding its dedicated contract carriage business.
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FedEx Freight Launches Priority, Economy Service
William B. Cassidy |
A streamlined FedEx Freight launched enhanced services Monday after cutting and reorganizing its terminals, taking some cues from its express parent.
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LTL
Diesel Edges Up to $3.438 per Gallon
Thomas L. Gallagher |
Retail diesel prices edged up eight-tenths of a cent last week to a national average of $3.438 per gallon, according to figures from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Trucking News
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Federal Judge Orders Carrier to Restore Teamster Pay
William B. Cassidy |
A federal judge ordered an Indiana concrete company to restore pay and benefits to 23 cement truck drivers who were cut following a Teamsters strike.
Trucking News
Trucking News
FMCSA Wants Black Boxes for Trucks
William B. Cassidy |
The Department of Transportation on Monday proposed all trucking companies be required to install electronic onboard recorders to monitor driver hours of service.
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
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Higher Rates Raise Profit for Covenant
William B. Cassidy |
Higher rates and better utilization of its equipment helped Covenant Transportation pull out of the red and post a profit for the fourth quarter and the year.
Trucking News
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EMD Sells Locomotives to Mexico, Canada
John D. Boyd |
Caterpillar-owned locomotive builder Electro-Motive Diesel locked in orders to sell 44 freight power units to Ferrocarril Mexicano, and five more to Quebec North Shore and Labrador Railway.
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Simpler Pricing No Priority
JOC Staff |
There’s one area where FedEx Freight will stick to the LTL playbook: pricing.
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LTL
Breathing Easier, Nationally
Bill Mongelluzzo |
There’s been no shortage of argument and legal battling over the clean-trucks programs at Southern California’s ports, but there’s no dispute that the program has worked remarkably w
Trucking News
Trucking News
North American ports
Layering Capacity
William B. Cassidy |
Truckers trying to keep a tight grip on capacity are rethinking how they use it.
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Trucking Recovery 2.0.11
William B. Cassidy |
The fragile state of the retail supply chain became clear to Wayne Spain in December as he went from store to store searching for a particular gift.
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Trucking News
Trucking labor
Hours-of-Service, Hours of Trouble
William B. Cassidy |
What’s most likely to keep trucking executives awake in the early hours of the morning this year? If you said higher fuel prices, stingy lenders or rising equipment costs, forget it.
Trucking News
Trucking News
Trucking labor
FedEx Freight Gets an Overhaul
William B. Cassidy |
Bill Logue will launch a new trucking company Jan. 31 — FedEx Freight. It will look much the same as the old FedEx Freight. Its rates won’t change.
Trucking News
Trucking News
LTL
Trucking labor
Fuel Comes Back
Joseph Bonney |
It’s not quite 2008 again, but heads up: After two years of relative stability, transportation fuel prices are creeping back up, raising costs across the supply chain and concerns that the heavi
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
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Union Pacific Powers Into 2011
John D. Boyd |
When Union Pacific executives consider how to build on big 2010 gains, they increasingly talk about the “value proposition” North America’s biggest freight railroad offers shippers.
Rail News
Rail News
Mica, Others Warn STB Over Rail Regulation
John D. Boyd |
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica and several other key members of that panel from both political parties are warning the Surface Transportation Board against taking
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Rail News
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
USA Truck Narrows Loss as Volumes Rise
William B. Cassidy |
Truckload operator USA Truck lost $1.8 million in the fourth quarter, despite a decline in empty miles and substantial increase in trucking revenue.
Trucking News
Trucking News
Canadian Freight Index Drops 2.8 Percent
William B. Cassidy |
Canadian shipping costs dropped for the second straight month in November, as freight demand cooled in the fall, according to the Canadian General Freight Index.
Trucking News
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LTL
Intermodal Powers Earnings Growth at J.B. Hunt
William B. Cassidy |
Stronger intermodal and trucking demand gave J.B. Hunt Transport Services a fourth quarter boost, with net profit increasing 39 percent to $57.9 million.
Trucking News
Trucking News
FMCSA Sets Trucker Hours of Service Hearing
William B. Cassidy |
Hostility toward proposed changes to truck driver hours of service rules could come to a boil at a Feb. 17 public hearing with federal regulators in Arlington, Va.
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
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Hub 4Q Profit Rises on Intermodal, Logistics Business
John D. Boyd |
A solid 19 percent revenue gain in its principal intermodal business and a 38 percent leap for its logistics unit helped push Hub Group's fourth quarter profit up 26 percent from a year earlier to $13
Rail News
Rail News
Senators Re-Launch Rail Regulation Effort
John D. Boyd |
Key senators who tried to push rail regulatory legislation in the last Congress re-introduced those measures this week, with one trying to toughen broad oversight powers while the other would strip ra
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
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