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Canadian National Railway is now operating a bit more efficiently around the Chicago rail network that is the nation's most congested track area, after completing a $5 million connection to its Elgin,

President Obama said he will nominate Ann Begeman, the Republican staff director at the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, to be the third member of the Surface Transportation Boa

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In the third increase in as many weeks, the national average retail price for diesel fuel last week climbed 1.7 cents to $3.248 per gallon, the highest price since October 2008, when the average price

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The seven largest freight railroads mildly increased their net hiring in November even as the overall U.S. jobless rate increased, the Surface Transportation Board reported.

Winter may be chilling overall freight traffic, especially as the push toward Christmas retail sales winds down, but there’s plenty of strength left in rail shipments.

BNSF Railway says shifting cross-border train inspections from its “rudimentary” facilities inside Texas to better sites in Mexico would reduce congestion as well as “risk in the wor

For several years, the $35 billion loan pool known as the Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing Program has sat largely unused despite pleas by small railroads to make its credit more avai

Truckload carriers have high hopes for 2011, but how high those hopes fly depends on how much weight a company carries.

The ports of Baltimore and Virginia hunger for the cargo that moves through the Port of New York and New Jersey to and from points beyond the densely populated region around the East Coast’s big

The public debut of CSA 2010 sent up red — or orange — flags across the trucking industry and among shippers, freight brokers and even on Wall Street.

The South Carolina State Ports Authority said it will participate in a regional program to help owners replace older drayage trucks, including the approximately 262 pre-1994 models that visit the Port

Trucking bankruptcies fell 18.5 percent from a year ago in the third quarter to 330 closings, taking 10,685 trucks out of the market, according to Avondale Partners.

Swift Transportation is back on Wall Street after raising $806 million in its initial public offering, selling 73.3 million shares of stock for $11 each.

After almost a year of negotiation, a new accord between the Department of Transportation and the Ohio Rail Development Commission clears the way for eastern railroad CSX Transportation to use a $98 m

A federal judge's ruling dismissing many lawsuits involving FedEx Ground contractors likely won't affect broader battles over the classification of transportation workers at ports and on highways, a t

ABF Freight System's withdrawal from an industry bargaining group in 2007 undermined its lawsuit against rival trucker YRC and the Teamsters union.

A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit ABF Freight System filed against rival trucker YRC Worldwide and the Teamsters aimed at blocking a labor agreement central to YRC’s survival.

The American Trucking Associations launched a Web site on Thursday dedicated to efforts to keep the federal government from changing truck driver hours of service rules.

Double-stack trains will begin rolling next week along the new Commonwealth Railway Mainline, a secure, dual-purpose rail corridor that eliminates 14 at-grade crossings in Virginia.

A federal judge will hear arguments Dec. 16 on whether to dismiss a lawsuit that could reshape unionized trucking and threaten the survival of YRC Worldwide.

The Department of Transportation paid out $23.63 billion through Dec. 3 to reimburse states for stimulus projects to improve their road, airport, rail or transit infrastructure.

Canadian trucking giant TransForce closed its $248 million acquisition of Dynamex Tuesday, outbidding transportation investment group Greenbriar Equity.

Transportation analyst John Larkin of Stifel Nicolaus is downgrading his stock ratings of three major intermodal companies, to 'hold' from 'buy,' citing their current valuations and the potential for

A federal judge's ruling for FedEx in a series of lawsuits claiming the company misclassified package drivers as independent contractors strikes a serious blow to attempts to have the workers labeled

A total of 6.2 million trucks crossed the eastern U.S.-Canada border so far in 2010, with growth across all 10 bridges.

Retail diesel prices shot up another 3.4 cents last week to hit $3.231 per gallon, the second multi-year record in two weeks as the average cost climbed past October 2008 numbers.

The federal government's Web site detailing trucking company safety results was temporarily disabled Monday as a new safety program triggered huge demand.

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Trucking company safety scores in five performance categories are available online following the Dec. 12 launch of the Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010, or CSA.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood didn’t even wait for incoming governors of Wisconsin and Ohio to be sworn in.

Swift Transportation is raising the ante in its initial public offering to $1 billion as the truckload business gains traction.

The Port of New York and New Jersey will implement an infrastructure fee on all cargo to pay for intermodal rail and road infrastructure and security.

The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington cleared the Department of Transportation to launch its CSA 2010 trucking safety program as early as this weekend, denying a request for a delay.

Letters submitted as evidence in court indicate the Teamsters union was willing to help ABF Freight System purchase struggling YRC Worldwide earlier this year.

Celadon Group secured a $50 million, five-year revolving credit facility from Bank of America, giving the truckload carrier increased liquidity and financing flexibility.

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Shippers appear dedicated to getting ahead of potential truck capacity constraints in 2011.

FedEx Freight is speeding less-than-truckload service between U.S. and Canadian markets, cutting transit times in more than 500 lanes, the company said.