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Mexico stepped up its pressure on the U.S. in the dispute over cross-border trucking on Monday, expanding the list of American goods that will be hit with punitive tariffs.

The average retail price for diesel dropped 1.2 cents to $2.979 per gallon last week, following three consecutive weekly increases, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Rail and construction product supplier L.B. Foster is extending to the end of this month its tender offer to buy all outstanding common shares of Portec Rail Products.

Con-way Truckload is looking beyond its less-than-truckload sister company for more business from “external” customers.

The rail freight industry may be humming, and intermodal may be too tight for comfort, but North American railcar equipment suppliers are mostly holding on until customers need them again.

Con-way Freight has a long, hard slog ahead as it struggles to right-size its volume and wrangles with shippers over pricing in what looks to be a slower recovery.

A return to profitability is helping to sway cautious Wall Street analysts that Pacer International’s strategic shift from a wholesale middleman service to a company focused on moving containers

A motor carrier in Southern Virginia, FWC, shut down this week, ending a 30-year run as it struggled to rebuild business in the economic recovery.

Surging international cargoes were the biggest driver in the second quarter for rail hauls of intermodal containers and trailers, said the Intermodal Association of North America.

New Century Transportation is the latest trucking company to plot a route for Wall Street with an initial public offering to raise cash for expansion in the recovery.

State-owned rail operator Container Corporation of India announced the launch of train services between the ports of Jawaharlal Nehru (Nhava Sheva), Mundra and Pipavav.

Users of railcars pulled another 5,808 out of storage in July from sidings and rail yards across North America, the strongest drawdown since April when freight traffic was stronger.

Non-asset logistics operator AutoInfo increased revenue from transportation services 57.8 percent from a year ago to $69.1 million in the second quarter.

Regional and short line railroad operator Patriot Rail reached an agreement in principle with paper manufacturer and forest products supplier Weyerhaeuser to buy six small rail lines the shipper has i

Wayne Wise, who with his wife Donna founded Western Express, one of the nation's top 50 trucking companies, died July 31 at the age of 60.

Roadrunner Transportation Services reported a 32.9 percent gain in revenue in the second quarter, but costs associated with the retirement of debt cut into earnings.

The lull in rail freight volume growth might have ended last month, as seasonally adjusted U.S.

About 300 independent truckers in the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association who operate in parts of the central and southwestern U.S.

YRC Worldwide plans to ask Nasdaq for additional time to raise its stock value above $1 a share to avoid delisting, the company said in its full quarterly 10-Q report.

Panther Expedited Services, the second largest expedited transportation company in the U.S. by revenue, plans an initial public offering worth up to $100 million.

The average price of diesel fuel jumped 6.3 cents last week to $2.991 per gallon, according to a report Monday from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

More trucks on the road mean more cups of coffee sold at TravelCenters of America, not to mention more meals, deals on merchandise and gallons of diesel.

BNSF Railway posted a $603 million net income for the second quarter, up 49.3 percent from a year earlier as revenue rose 23.5 percent to $4.094 billion.

North Baltimore, Ohio — Scheduled for opening in early 2011, CSX says this 185-acre site south of Toledo will also become the “nerve center” of its entire intermodal network.

One of the most significant changes in the 54-year history of maritime containerization is unfolding rapidly at U.S.

As rail executives peer through the fog of uncertainty around the economic outlook for the rest of the year, many find their intermodal business lighting the path ahead.

California’s flower growers have taken a cue from their produce counterparts and will begin to consolidate shipping to save freight costs and better compete with South America’s floral pro

The country’s largest less-than-truckload carrier is nowhere near as large as it used to be, but YRC Worldwide is far closer to profitability.

Add chassis to the list of transport equipment in short supply this year as the early recovery in demand caught carriers and leasing companies with their chassis down.

White is the new green for companies in the cold chain that want to improve their environmental rating.

Despite ongoing rumors that California’s transportation refrigeration unit regulations are on hold, a state agency already has issued $800,000 in fines.

Surging freight volume and tightening truck capacity in the second quarter put freight brokers and third-party logistics providers in a vise, as the cost of purchased transportation shot up faster tha

Rate increases for reefer trucking companies are not a foregone conclusion, according to a new survey by Transport Capital Partners.

An Environmental Protection Agency grant of nearly $1.1 million will go to add battery-powered air conditioning units to at least 101 long-haul trucks, targeting those operated by KLLM Transport Servi

A push-pull this week over future rail legislation had state farm commissioners urging Congress to enact a law to force more shipper-oriented competition onto U.S.

Senators Thursday introduced a bill that would let states decide whether to allow tractor-trailers as heavy as 97,000 pounds on Interstate highways.

An increase in the cost of shipping shoes has Sen. Herb Kohl kicking about the classification system used to help price less-than-truckload freight.

With a major set of construction projects across the Midwest and along the Atlantic seaboard, CSX Transportation plans to turn its intermodal operations into a sleek network for cross-country containe

Major U.S. freight railroads hit their highest load levels of 2010 in intermodal as well as bulk carload shipments during the week ending July 31, the Association of American Railroads said.

In a first such case against a railroad, an Environmental Protection Agency action against “excessive train engine idling” has prompted a Massachusetts commuter rail agency to spend over $