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Arkansas Best narrowed its losses to $300,000 in the third quarter, with a $2.6 million operating loss at its less-than-truckload carrier ABF Freight System.

Higher costs helped push trucking and logistics giant Con-way back into the red in the third quarter, as a second-quarter surge in truck demand faded.

The American Trucking Associations and the Port of Los Angeles Tuesday asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit for an expedited hearing of their appeals in the port's clean-truck case.

Canadian National Railway and North America Stevedoring Company, a unit of Quebec Stevedoring, said they will soon build a multi-modal steel trans-loading facility in Chicago, to tap what is already t

Rail equipment supplier FreightCar America wrapped up its acquisition of DTE Rail Services from Detroit-based DTE Energy.

BNSF Railway, splitting its CEO and president roles, promoted Carl Ice to president and chief operating office while keeping Matthew K. Rose in the chairman and CEO positions.

The average retail price of diesel fuel remained at $3.067 over the last week despite upward spikes in the Rocky Mountain states and in California that pushed the prices there to the highes

ABF Freight System is suing the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and three YRC Worldwide subsidiaries over the latest round of labor concessions at YRC.

Truckload operator USA Truck reported a profit for the second straight quarter, though its net income slipped by a third from the second quarter to $586,000.

Union workers at Navistar ratified a four-year labor pact the company says will improve the operating structure and flexibility of its truck and engine plants.

Teamster employees at YRC Worldwide approved extended wage, benefit and pension cuts to give the financially troubled trucking giant another shot at survival.

Knight Transportation is defying conventional wisdom in the truckload industry by adding capacity to its tractor-trailer fleet, but it’s doing so with a twist.

Don’t tuck the peak season away just yet. Two of the biggest partners in U.S. intermodal traffic expect strong growth in demand to extend well into the fall.

When the Great Recession began, UPS Freight President Jack Holmes sought advice from J.

Implementation of the employee-driver mandate in the Port of Los Angeles clean-trucks plan may not begin at the end of 2011 as planned. That appears to be the outcome of a ruling by U.S.

Trucking operators have long fought calls for new fuel efficiency and emissions standards.

A high volume of ballots is likely to extend vote counting in a Teamsters election crucial to the survival of trucking giant YRC Worldwide into the weekend.

The JOC Week in Review for October 29 gives you the highlights of top news stories from this week, and also a preview of the Nov. 1 edition of the Journal of Commerce.

Commercial truck trailer orders nearly tripled from a year ago in September and rose 19 percent from order levels in August, according to ACT Research.

TransContainer set a price for its forthcoming initial public offering in London that values Russia's largest rail container operator between $1.3 billion and $1.6 billion.

John Roberts will replace Kirk Thompson as president and CEO of J.B.

American Railcar Industries had revenue of $64.8 million and a net loss of $6.3 million or 29 cents per share in the third quarter of 2010, the company reported, but ARI is seeing a moderate upturn in

Parts of the U.S.

Southeastern trucker Saia increased its revenue 6 percent year-over-year in the third quarter but saw its net income slide as operating costs increased.

Trinity Industries, a maker of railcars, barges and highway construction support products, saw net income rise 36 percent in the third quarter to $31.5 million even though revenue shrank 3 percent to

The property and equipment of bankrupt truck body and trailer maker Thiele Manufacturing will be auctioned Nov. 30 by Maas Companies in Windber, Pa.

Norfolk Southern Railway’s profit surged 47 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier, to $445 million, as revenue grew faster than expenses.

While a number of planned high-speed passenger rail corridors are still waiting for implementing contracts with freight railroads to use designated federal funds, Union Pacific Railroad CEO James R.

Covenant Transportation's profit slipped from the second quarter but the truckload carrier remained in the black with gains in total revenue and freight revenue.

The largest freight railroads said they increased their U.S. employment by 1,386 workers from mid-August to mid-September, to the highest level since April 2009.

Canadian shippers are paying higher truckload rates and cross-border and less-than-truckload prices are rising as well, the Canadian General Freight Index says.

YRC Worldwide's lenders gave the company some financial wiggle room as the clock ticks down on a critical Teamster vote on wage and benefit concessions.

Vitran, a Toronto-based transportation and supply chain firm, increased profit 566 percent to $2 million in the third quarter as higher revenue and reduced debt payments eliminated an operating loss t

Canadian Pacific Railway saw net income fall 5.7 percent to about $191.5 million in the third quarter from a year earlier, but said freight operations are running strong and the 2009 profit had been s

Tight truckload capacity, higher rates and new customers helped Celadon Group roar back from the depths of the recession in the third quarter of 2010.

Old Dominion Freight Line increased its net income 13.5 percent from the second quarter and 132.3 percent from a year ago to $24.4 million in the third quarter.

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Canadian National Railway’s net income rose 20.6 percent in the July-September quarter from a year earlier to $543 million, as revenue increased 15 percent to $2.072 billion.

CSX Transportation began using the first of two low-emission GenSet switcher locomotives at its Curtis Bay Yard in Baltimore.