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The average retail price of used trucks is creeping up, putting more pressure on truckload carrier capacity, according to an ACT Research study.

Kansas City Southern, the smallest of the North American Class I railroads with operations split between U.S.

Trucking interests in Southern California appear to have scored a temporary victory Monday when U.S. District Court Judge Christina A.

Retail diesel prices slipped back six-tenths of a cent last week to an average of $3.067 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

The still strong domestic intermodal market has Union Pacific Railroad back in the market for new 53-foot, jumbo sized intermodal containers and chassis, on top of a larger order it placed earlier thi

Kenneth Churchill, a trucking pioneer who shut down his 68-year-old company during a historic Teamsters strike, died Oct. 20 at the age of 92.

Stimulus spending by the Department of Transportation reached $21.2 billion as of Oct.

The Department of Transportation faces a Nov. 4 deadline to respond to a challenge to a rule mandating the use of electronic onboard recorders by some truckers.

CSX Transportation’s robust start to the rail industry’s earnings season points to an autumn freight market that may be stronger than many expected.

When it comes to complying with truck safety regulations, the devil is in the details. At many trucking companies, only the devil may know those details.

When a senior Environmental Protection Agency official last week classified the agency’s new truck engine and fuel standards as “historic,” she was right on target.

A slower-paced economy is evident in third quarter freight volumes, but not in trucking profits.

Although only a tiny percentage of truck drivers test positive for illegal drug use, those who do increasingly test positive for the use of drugs such as marijuana, PCP, amphetamines and opiates, acco

Ryder System's earnings leaped 40 percent to $39.7 million in the third quarter on a 5 percent increase in revenue to $1.32 billion, the Miami-based company said.

Knight Transportation rode strong truckload demand to higher profit in the third quarter, while building its truck count up to a record high of 3,912 tractors.

Net orders for heavy trucks rose sharply in September from August and from September 2009, defying sales expectations and a slowing economy.

Truckload carrier Heartland Express improved its profitability in the third quarter, reporting what looks almost like a railroad operating ratio: 77.2.

North American shippers may be on the verge of a second intermodal revolution.

Federal rail regulators set in motion a process that could end with their reclaiming oversight of railroads' freight service and rate levels on cargoes that are now exempt.

YRC Worldwide is reportedly prepared to shut down subsidiary New Penn if Teamsters at the regional carrier reject proposed wage and pension concessions.

YRC Worldwide cleared another hurdle to survival by renewing its $300 million asset-backed securitization, or ABS facility, before an Oct. 31 deadline.

North American rail freight traffic rebounded in the week ending Oct. 16, a period that included the Oct. 11 holiday in the U.S. and Canada.

The 2010 intermodal peak season for western railroad Union Pacific looks like it could continue another two months, said CEO James R. Young.

Western U.S. carrier Union Pacific Railroad posted a 51 percent gain in net income in the third quarter from a year earlier, to $778 million, as revenue increases outpaced expenses.

Norfolk Southern broke ground for the Franklin County regional intermodal facility in Greencastle, Pa., which will form a key part of the Crescent Corridor route between the Gulf Coast and the U.S.

The Port of Los Angeles has been awarded $16 million from the U.S.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is signing up volunteers to test ocean and rail manifest systems in the Automated Commercial Environment.

Trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line is expanding an overseas partnership aimed at expediting less-than-containerload freight shipped to the U.S. from China.

The Department of Transportation is “well-positioned” to complete contract talks to launch slow-moving plans for passenger rail construction projects, and none of the 13 targeted projects are in dange

The nation's former top truck safety watchdog is turning to the law -- not as an enforcer but a practitioner.

The State of Maine has reached an agreement to purchase 233 miles of track in Aroostook and Penobscot counties from the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway, the governor’s office announced on Oct.

Intermodal logistics firm Hub Group saw net income soar 28 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier to $12.6 million, with double-digit sales gains by its three business segments – intermodal,

As many as half of the driver qualification files motor carriers keep are incomplete or inaccurate, according to a survey of trucking customers by LexisNexis.

Net profit for state-owned Container Corporation of India grew by a mere 2 percent in the second quarter to $47 million as earnings plunged in the core export-import segment amid increasing competitio

The lone Republican on the Surface Transportation Board, which regulates most types of economic issues involving railroads and their shippers, said he will not seek reappointment after his term ends D

Profit and revenue leaped at Werner Enterprises in the third quarter, even as the freight surge that lifted the trucking industry in the second quarter ebbed.

Diesel prices inched upward seven-tenths of a cent last week to an average of $3.073 per gallon nationwide in their third consecutive weekly increase, according to the U.S.

The sluggish pace of economic recovery tops truckers’ long list of critical issues despite four straight quarters of economic growth and a strong surge in freight demand this year, the American Transp

YRC Worldwide expects to narrow its losses in the third quarter on the back of higher tonnages and revenue per load, the nation's largest trucker said Monday.

The recession is driving more business to Daimler Truck Financial USA as banks tighten the credit lines of trucking customers.