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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.

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

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

Freight brokers and logistics companies increased sales in the second quarter, despite tight capacity, the Transportation Intermediaries Association said.

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.

Dutch express and logistics company TNT this week launched the first fully electric delivery vehicle fleet in China.

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.

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

Industry groups were scrambling for details on how the administration expects to develop the $50 bil

A routine truck inspection in Maine turned up unexpected cargo -- buckets of cash worth more than $1 million.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration shut down an Alabama trucking company involved in an accident that killed 11 people in March.

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.

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.

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.

The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) on Aug.

A small Virginia trucking operator is getting larger through acquisition, taking advantage of opportunities for expansion in the economic recovery.

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.

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

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

Norfolk Southern Railway says it will cut greenhouse gas emissions in its operations 10 percent by 2014 from 2009 levels through fuel-saving technology and efficiency improvements.

Trucking costs for shippers in Canada rose in June for the second straight month but extended a 14-month streak of year-to-year declines, according to the Canadian General Freight Index.

The Congressional Budget Office is drawing the attention of transportation policy experts with an upbeat estimate that the nation’s Highway Trust Fund should be able to cover its projected spending ne

France's state-owned railway SNCF returned to profit in the first half of 2010, helped by a recovery in freight traffic and logistics.

Schneider Logistics will sell its freight forwarding and customs house brokerage business to Norbert Dentressangle, a $3.5 billion trucking and logistics operator.

Rail equipment suppliers L.B. Foster and Portec Rail Products said they agreed to extend to Dec.

Declining used and new truck and trailer sales in July reflected seasonal trends and trucking company reluctance to add capacity in an uncertain economic recovery.

Three former executives of bankrupt Arrow Trucking filed $1.38 million in priority wage claims, drawing objections from Arrow's trustee, the Tulsa World reports.

The average retail price for diesel fuel fell 1.9 cents last week to $2.938 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Environmental, community and labor organizations Friday praised the decision by a U.S.

The American Trucking Associations plans to appeal the ruling of U.S.