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Demand for future rail capacity appears to be as clear as mud.

EU to Investigate Ocean Carriers

Chicago is not only the nation’s crossroads, but also its chokepoint.

Bad news was everywhere at the end of May: The Dow was plunging 300 points, North and South Korea were rattling sabers, the eurozone crisis was threatening to spread, and an underwater gusher of crude

Building the more fuel-efficient heavy trucks the Obama administration wants to see on U.S.

The less-than-truckload field’s largest network alliance — the sprawling, multicarrier Reliance Network of regional carriers — is undergoing some changes, expanding its reach on the

A nationwide information system that can track the locations and speeds of hundreds of thousands of trucks on U.S. highways is much more than a wild-eyed notion.

To small trucking companies working the ports in California, using independent contract drivers to haul containers creates a symbiotic relationship, giving owner-operators the freedom they prize and t

Two highway safety advocacy groups often bitterly at odds with the trucking industry honored the top safety executive at one of the nation’s largest truckload carriers, signaling potential

President Obama used a visit to a commercial truck dealership outside Washington, D.C., Friday to highlight how the economic recovery has spurred hiring in equipment suppliers to the freight sector.

Truckers in South China who are seeking higher earnings reportedly blocked the main road leading to ports in western Shenzhen on Thursday, and threatened to take their protest to larger ports if they

Truckload rates are spiking 10 percent and higher as rising freight demand collides with deep cuts in capacity, according to freight brokers.

The clean-trucks program and other pollution-reduction measures slashed harmful diesel emissions at Los Angeles last year, according to the port's 2009 air emissions inventory.

Pacer International, in the second round of major management changes in the last three months, announced new executive changes as the intermodal and logistics services provider transforms from primari

Canadian Pacific Railway says it may gain as much as $960 million in new business in the next five years and expects to realize significant cost savings through improved productivity, according to ana

A preliminary list of 100 significant North American infrastructure projects identifies $400 billion in projects called critical to long-term economic competitiveness.

Seven transportation companies and the nation's second-largest container port made the 2010 CIO 100 list recognizing companies that create business value through technological innovation.

Paul T. Sorrow is retiring July 1 as national president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen, clearing the way for First Vice President Dennis R.

Economic recovery in the U.S.

The U.S. operations of all seven top-tier North American railroads expanded their workforce in April, the first time that has happened since rail employment bottomed in January.

The market for hybrid trucks and buses is set for a thousand-fold increase within five years, with more than 300,000 hybrids sold by 2015, Pike Research says.

The Port of Vancouver and Canadian National Railroad announced a supply chain collaboration agreement that is designed to enhance the gateway’s competitiveness for North American exports as well

Maersk Canada said Wednesday it is selling the Canadian assets of port trucking line Bridge Terminal Transport to Rouge River Capital, a Canadian merchant bank.

Diesel prices fell to their lowest point in three months, sliding 4.1 cents to an average of $2.98 per gallon across the country in the week ending May 31, according to the U.S.

Teamsters vice president Fred Gegare will challenge James P. Hoffa next year for the top job at the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

The president of paper and packaging giant MeadWestvaco is telling other shippers and rail transportation providers that his company expects “prolonged economic softness” rather than a rob

The operator of the Chunnel between Britain and France is acquiring the UK’s third largest rail freight operator in a bid to boost its cargo traffic between the two countries.

Heavy equipment manufacturer Caterpillar is buying Electro-Motive Diesel, one of North America’s two major builders of line-haul freight locomotives, from its private equity fund owners for $820

The value of cross-border road, rail and pipeline shipments between the U.S. and Canada, and the U.S.

Baltimore city officials are considering raising fees on trucks carrying oversize or overweight loads out of the Port of Baltimore, according to a published report.

Teamsters employees sent a clear message to ABF Freight System when they rejected wage concessions last week: Use pricing, not pay cuts to balance the books.

Truck and engine manufacturers supporting national fuel economy standards for heavy trucks are already working on higher-mileage powertrains and vehicles.

President Obama is putting the trucking industry on the road to greater fuel efficiency with an order for mileage standards for heavy-duty trucks.

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Net orders for trailers in April dropped 13 percent from March, according to ACT Research, as trucking companies signaled they are growing uncertain about the strength of an economic recovery.

The head of Norfolk Southern Railway said he is finding nothing to like in the rail competition legislation pending in the Senate, after passage months ago by the Commerce, Science and Transportation

Florida East Coast Railway said James R. Hertwig will become president of that carrier starting July 1, after he leaves his current position as president of CSX Intermodal.

Truck tonnage climbed to its highest level since September 2008, the brink of the financial crisis that precipitated the recession, a trucking industry index shows.

The pace of recovery is slowing for truckload carriers, as truck capacity stabilizes at a lower level, according to the May 28 Morgan Stanley Truckload Freight Index.

Retirees in multiemployer pension plans whose former companies failed shouldn't be penalized by pension reform, a pension expert said at a Senate hearing yesterday.