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Truckload Spot Rates Level Off, Carriers Eye Contracts
JOC Staff |
Truckload spot rates are “flattening out” heading into the fall after rising sharply in the second quarter, according to a trucking industry executive, but longer-term contract rates are likely on the
Trucking News
Trucking News
KCS Sees Mexico-US Container Growth
Joseph Bonney |
Kansas City Southern carried 700 U.S.-bound containers from Mexico’s Port of Lazaro Cardenas during August and expects volume on the route to continue to grow, a KCS executive said.
Rail News
Rail News
North-American rail
Appliance Makers Embracing Near-Sourcing, Freight Exec Says
JOC Staff |
A freight railroad official with strong ties to shipping out of Mexico says he is seeing some offshore manufacturing shift back to North America as labor costs rise in China.
Rail News
Rail News
North-American rail
Railcar Owners Reduce Idled Fleet
John D. Boyd |
North American railcar owners took 10,759 parked freight cars out of storage during August, leaving 348,712 or 22.7 percent of the total continental fleet idled as of Sept. 1.
Rail News
Rail News
North-American rail
CP Expands Intermodal Train Productivity 45 Percent
JOC Staff |
Canadian Pacific Railway expanded its ability to carry intermodal cars on trains 45 percent over the past two years, a company official says, and expects more gains as part of a plan to add capacity b
Rail News
Rail News
North-American rail
Trucker Knight to Build Fleet, Sees Few Acquisitions
Joseph Bonney |
Truckload carrier Knight Transportation is generating enough profit to update its fleet but sees few current possibilities for growth through acquisition, the company’s chief financial officer s
Trucking News
Trucking News
ABF Talks with Teamsters, Lobbies Congress
Joseph Bonney |
ABF Freight System is waging a two-front campaign to cut its labor costs by negotiating with the Teamsters about contract concessions and lobbying Congress for legislation to ease the burden unionized
Trucking News
Trucking News
LTL
Trucking labor
If the Class Fits…
William B. Cassidy |
When the Surface Transportation Board stripped antitrust immunity from truck freight classification in 2007, hope spread that a less adversarial, more cooperative carrier-shipper relationship would em
Trucking News
Trucking News
LTL
Bulk Rail Volume Hits Second Consecutive Peak
John D. Boyd |
North America’s largest railroads saw their bulk commodity carloads hit a second consecutive 2010 peak in the week ending Sept.
Rail News
Rail News
North-American rail
NS Opens Heartland Corridor for Intermodal
John D. Boyd |
After three years of enlarging Appalachian Mountain tunnels, Norfolk Southern Railway opened its Heartland Corridor to double-stack operations Thursday between Virginia's seaport area and big Midwest
Rail News
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Forwarding
North-American rail
Truckers May Seek Early General Rate Increases
Joseph Bonney and William B. Cassidy |
Shippers can expect expedited general rate increases from less-than-truckload carriers, trucking officials at an investor conference in New York said.
Trucking News
Trucking News
LTL
US Rails Haul Highest Volume since Autumn 2008
John D. Boyd |
U.S. railroads hauled more bulk railcar loads and intermodal containers or trailers in August than any time since the autumn of 2008, said the Association of American Railroads.
Rail News
Rail News
North-American rail
Factory Group Opposes Energy Taxes for Transport
John D. Boyd |
The National Association of Manufacturers, a major industrial lobbying group in Washington, D.C., launched an advertising campaign to head off new energy taxes after
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Trucking labor
FreightCar Buying DTE Rail Service Assets
John D. Boyd |
Railcar manufacturer FreightCar America signed a definitive agreement to buy the business assets of DTE Rail Services, a railcar repair and management firm, from parent DTE Energy for about $23.2 mill
Rail News
Rail News
North-American rail
Billings Rise 13 Percent for Truck Brokers, 3PLs
William B. Cassidy |
Freight brokers and logistics companies increased sales in the second quarter, despite tight capacity, the Transportation Intermediaries Association said.
Trucking News
Trucking News
Truck brokers
YRC Worldwide Appeals Nasdaq Delisting
William B. Cassidy |
Trucking giant YRC Worldwide is asking Nasdaq for more time to comply with its minimum share value rule and avoid delisting from the stock exchange.
Trucking News
Trucking News
LTL
TNT Launches Fully Electric Vehicles in China
Thomas L. Gallagher |
Dutch express and logistics company TNT this week launched the first fully electric delivery vehicle fleet in China.
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Air Cargo Forwarder News
LTL
Diesel Price Falls Fourth Straight Week
Thomas L. Gallagher |
The average price of diesel fuel fell for the fourth time over the past week as businesses headed into the busier fall shipping season with fuel prices virtually unchanged from the spring.
Trucking News
Trucking News
Obama Outlines Transportation Strategy
John D. Boyd |
President Obama said he wants long-term transportation legislation to include a permanent infrastructure bank that can make investments outside regular state formulas, and to put his passenger rail pr
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
LTL
Trucking labor
North-American rail
Transport Groups Seek Infrastructure Plan Details
John D. Boyd |
Industry groups were scrambling for details on how the administration expects to develop the $50 bil
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
LTL
Trucking labor
North-American rail
Police Stop Truck, Seize $1 Million
William B. Cassidy |
A routine truck inspection in Maine turned up unexpected cargo -- buckets of cash worth more than $1 million.
Trucking News
Trucking News
Obama Offers $50 Billion Transport Building Plan
John D. Boyd |
President Obama proposed to spend $50 billion to "jumpstart" construction of roads, railways and airport runways, the White House said, and pair it with "a long-term framework to reform
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
LTL
Trucking labor
North-American rail
Intermodal Drives Railcar Orders
John D. Boyd |
Owners of North America’s rail equipment fleets are betting the thriving intermodal market will maintain its growth pace, placing orders for new equipment with hard-hit railcar manufacturers.
Rail News
Rail News
A Restart at Con-way Freight
William B. Cassidy |
Last year’s less-than-truckload price war is still claiming victims, but not those once expected to fall. Two of Con-way Freight’s top officers, President John G.
Trucking News
Trucking News
LTL
Trucking labor
If You Build It... Stacking Up Hopes in the Heartland
John D. Boyd |
Norfolk Southern Railway has been literally changing the landscape of freight rail transportation in the eastern United States for three years, carving out new clearances through the Appalachian Mount
Rail News
Rail News
LA Wins on Trucks
Bill Mongelluzzo |
A federal judge’s ruling upholding the concession requirements in the Port of Los Angeles clean-trucks program hardly brings the case closer to resolution.
Trucking News
Trucking News
Trucking labor
A Cure for What Ails Alameda Corridor?
John D. Boyd |
The Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority edged one step closer to securing what could be the largest loan ever from a little-used Federal Railroad Administration finance program.
Rail News
Rail News
Heavy Truck Orders Rise 8.3 Percent
William B. Cassidy |
In a new sign that trucking companies are investing in new capacity again, net heavy truck orders jumped 8.3 percent in August from July and were up 16.8 percent from a year ago, according to prelimin
Trucking News
Trucking News
LTL
Deutsche Bahn Capital Spending to Break Records
Bruce Barnard |
German railroad company Deutsche Bahn said it will spend $525 million on new rail cars, locomotives and cargo facilities across Europe in 2010 to keep pace with rising freight traffic.
Rail News
Rail News
Broad Demand Lifts Bulk Rail Volume to 2010 Peak
John D. Boyd |
A wide-ranging increase in railcar loadings lifted volume in the bulk commodities and equipment categories of rail traffic to their highest levels this year.
Rail News
Rail News
North-American rail
KCS Predicts 20 Percent Revenue Growth
John D. Boyd |
Kansas City Southern, the smallest of the North American Class I carriers, predicts second-half 2010 revenue growth of nearly 20 percent and says its rail lines have "fully recovered" from the impact
Rail News
Rail News
North-American rail
Regulators Shut Down Trucker After Fatal Crash
William B. Cassidy |
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration shut down an Alabama trucking company involved in an accident that killed 11 people in March.
Trucking News
Trucking News
Intermodal Rail Volume Scales New Heights
John D. Boyd |
Major North American railroads racked up big intermodal numbers for the third straight week in the week ending Aug. 28 and set a new 2010 high in train loadings of containers and trailers.
Rail News
Rail News
North-American rail
Short Line Traffic Hits Fastest Pace Since April
John D. Boyd |
North America's small railroads saw freight traffic for the week ending Aug. 28 rise to the highest level since late April, continuing a volume rebound that began in July.
Rail News
Rail News
Gulf & Ohio to Acquire Lancaster & Chester
Rail Resource |
Gulf & Ohio Railways, Inc. (G&O), headquartered in Knoxville, Tenn., intends to acquire South Carolina’s Lancaster & Chester Railway Co. (L&C), the two have announced.
Rail News
Rail News
FRA Proposes Regulatory Changes For Concrete Crossties
Rail Resource |
The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) on Aug.
Rail News
Rail News
North-American rail
Lawrence Transportation Buys Virginia Trucker
William B. Cassidy |
A small Virginia trucking operator is getting larger through acquisition, taking advantage of opportunities for expansion in the economic recovery.
Trucking News
Trucking News
UTi Worldwide Profit Soars 60 Percent
Thomas L. Gallagher |
Logistics provider UTi Worldwide earned net profit of $18.9 million in the second quarter, up 60 percent from $11.8 million a year ago.
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Truck brokers
Port of LA Will Phase in Clean-Truck Mandate
Bill Mongelluzzo |
The Port of Los Angeles says it will phase in the requirement for employee drivers in port trucking now that the country's largest port has approval from a federal judge to implement portions of the c
Maritime
Maritime
Forwarding
Trucking labor
Trucking Official Sees More Port Trucking Battles
Bill Mongelluzzo |
A trucking official says a judge’s ruling against owner-operator drivers at the Port of Los Angeles was just one skirmish in “a war” the industry is fighting with officials at the po
Port News
Maritime
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