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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.

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.

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.

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.

Major freight carriers are warning customers to expect service delays and shipment rerouting this week across a broad swath of the U.S.

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

Ryder System completed the acquisition of California-based trucking operator The Scully Companies on Monday, expanding its dedicated contract carriage business.

A streamlined FedEx Freight launched enhanced services Monday after cutting and reorganizing its terminals, taking some cues from its express parent.

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.

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.

The Department of Transportation on Monday proposed all trucking companies be required to install electronic onboard recorders to monitor driver hours of service.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

There’s one area where FedEx Freight will stick to the LTL playbook: pricing.

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

Truckers trying to keep a tight grip on capacity are rethinking how they use it.

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.

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

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

Truckload operator USA Truck lost $1.8 million in the fourth quarter, despite a decline in empty miles and substantial increase in trucking revenue.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica took Amtrak to task in a field hearing Thursday in New York City, saying the passenger rail agency "will never be capable

Knight Transportation is breaking from the truckload pack, adding capacity and increasing its length of

Higher spot market and contract pricing and fewer empty miles boosted Werner Enterprises' net profit 34 percent in the fourth quarter to $24.1 million.

YRC Worldwide will cut 80 jobs in Akron, Ohio, and is looking for a buyer for the former headquarters of Roadway Express there, the Akron Beacon Journal reported.

Heartland Express Chairman and CEO Russell Gerdin will take a leave of absence from his position at the truckload carrier for health reasons, the company said.

A strong surge in intermodal traffic pushed Kansas City Southern’s net profit up 60 percent to $52 million in the fourth quarter, extending a strong string of profit reports from North American

Congressional leaders are moving a new six-year surface transportation bill higher on their priority lists after President Obama’s call for infrastructure investment in his State of the Union ad

Higher intermodal and logistics revenue boosted fourth quarter profits and sales at temperature-controlled trucker Marten Transport, Mondovi, Wis.

Truck tonnage rose 5.7 percent last year compared with 2009, helping tonnage to recovery from an 8.7 percent plunge, the American Trucking Associations said.

Canadian Pacific Railway’s fourth quarter net income spiked 27 percent from a year earlier to $187 million (C$186 million), outpacing a 13 percent rise in revenue to $1.3 billion.

Truckload carrier Celadon Group’s net profit increased to $2.9 million in its last quarter, nearly triple its net income a year ago of $1 million.