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Barge and railcar builder Greenbrier is slowing barge output by adopting a four-day workweek for its Gunderson marine operations in Portland, Ore., citing market uncertainty from the Gulf oil spill an

A Chicago-area pension fund that faced insolvency by 2013 will be split in two, with workers from bankrupt firms receiving benefits from the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.

With public budgets stretched thin, governments should be doing more to encourage private investment in needed infrastructure, the CEO of Neptune Orient Lines told an international panel of transport

The Teamsters union’s Central States pension fund faces insolvency within 10 to 15 years unless Congress acts to stabilize the fund, its executive director said this week.

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

Five states received nearly $80 million in federal grants for high-speed rail projects today from the Department of Transportation.

There’s bipartisan support for quick passage of a comprehensive transportation bill, but members of the House Transportation Infrastructure Committee on Wednesday demonstrated there is still a w

Virginia broke ground Wednesday on a control center for high occupancy toll lanes on a stretch of the I-495 Capital Beltway that ranks as one of the worst U.S. congestion bottlenecks.

Speed and location data collected from approximately 650,000 trucks is being used to pinpoint congestion hotspots nationwide and could play a key role in infrastructure planning and funding.

The U.S. Export-Bank is backing a $1.7 million loan for railroad equipment supplier Holland L.P. to sell two in-track welding systems to a customer in Brazil.

Work rules spelled out in contracts between owner-operator truckers and drayage companies may not provide the legal grounding to maintain the truckers’ status as independent contractors at U.S.

Net orders for heavy-duty trucks shot up 91 percent in April, as fleets began placing orders for trucks compliant with 2010 federal emissions rules, ACT Research said.

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CSX Transportation is finally reopening for overnight service a 200-mile Tennessee rail line between Nashville and Memphis, which had been closed since severe storms at the start of May and caused CSX

Teamsters at ABF Freight System rejected a 15 percent wage cut by a solid majority, sending the less-than-truckload carrier and union back to the negotiating table.

The average price of diesel across the country fell 7.3 cents per gallon, the second straight weekly drop and the sharpest decline since March 2009, the U.S. Department of Energy reported Monday.

The Teamsters union and YRC Worldwide said they will form two joint labor-management committees to discuss the trucking operator's participation in union pension funds and "ways to enhance YRCW's

The global economic crisis reduced greenhouse gas emissions from transportation industry sources worldwide, but that reduction isn’t expected to last long.

Canadian Pacific Railway is raising by about $66 million the amount it plans to spend on capital improvements this year, for a new spending program that ranges between $708 million and $756 million.

The battle over who will drive the trucks in clean-air programs being rolled out at ports across the country is now being waged on three fronts — federal court in Los Angeles, a U.S.

When a shipment absolutely, positively has to arrive no later than yesterday, what do shippers do? First they pray . . . then they call an expedited trucking company.

If you thrive in a stable work environment defined by regular day-to-day routines, please don’t consider a career in expedited trucking.

The Port of Vancouver, British Columbia, is helping lead a charge among Canadian ports and shippers frustrated by a lack of competition they say leaves them with inadequate intermodal rail service.

Profit is paving the way to expansion at Old Dominion Freight Line.

Data Quality isn’t just the concern of billion-dollar carriers such as U.S. Xpress Enterprises.

In the Obama administration’s vision for a future with free-flowing highways, cleaner air in cities and ports and lower climate-heating carbon emissions, intermodal rail leads the way.

When it takes over operation of APM Terminals’ automated container terminal in Portsmouth this summer, the Virginia Port Authority will position itself to become one of the nation’s bigges

Trucking companies rely on more than rubber and fuel to operate; data from operations, sales, accounting and maintenance are vital to their services.

Expedited trucking is a premium service, commanding a premium price. But that price might not be as high as shippers think, carrier executives said.

The American Trucking Associations supports President Obama’s call for the first national fuel-economy standards for medium- and heavy-duty trucks.

FedEx Ground is tightening its standards for independent contractors, responding to concerns raised by several states, Dow Jones Newswires reports.

President Obama signed a presidential order today that for the first time would establish fuel economy standards and greenhouse gas emissions limits for heavy-duty and medium trucks, starting in 2014.

CSX Transportation is promoting William Clement as president of its intermodal unit on the retirement of longtime executive James R. Hertwig, the company said Friday.

APL, the world’s fourth-largest container line, is looking to invest in China’s intermodal rail network as Beijing focuses economic development on industrial plants in the country’s

A spike in containerized shipments lifted rail intermodal volume at mid-May, but major North American railroads and short lines are seeing traffic flatten for many cargoes in the bulk carload categori

Con-way completed a $143.7 million stock offering, raising funds for capital expenditures, including new trucks for its fleets.

The U.S. Postal Service is overhauling its mail and shipping structure, merging the expedited and ground operations into a single Shipping Services group.

The May 5 hearing by the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure into the Port of Los Angeles' clean-trucks program may spawn yet another investigation of the program, this one dealing wi

The Reliance Network, a partnership linking several regional less-than-truckload carriers in the U.S. and Canada, is expanding while changing some of its carrier members.

Trucking executives may get the driver shortage they fear unless they reverse wage trends in the industry, an investment research firm warned today.