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Trucking yield and rates aren't rising as quickly as demand despite a surge in freight volume on highways in the first quarter, according to new figures on the trucking market.

APL Logistics, a unit of Singapore-based Neptune Orient Lines, plans to expand its place in the North American intermodal market with a focus on the link between customers’ international and dom

Diesel prices fell last week for the first time in seven weeks, sliding an average of 3.3 cents to $3.094 per gallon, according to a report Monday from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

The watershed Los Angeles clean-truck lawsuit is one step closer to conclusion, with the port stating in its closing arguments that it is exempt from federal pre-emption law because it is a market par

Trucking company Old Dominion Freight Line expanded its international freight forwarding business, opening four regional command centers to guide shipments through its domestic and global networks.

Roadrunner Transportation Services completed an initial public offering, becoming one of a very few trucking and logistics companies to go public in recent years.

The Department of Transportation keeps saying it wants to “get trucks off the road” in reshaping the nation’s freight and passenger infrastructure.

A rail customers’ rally, held at the outset of a day of lobbying on Capitol Hill, was one part reunion and one part backslapping celebration as shippers and their advocates reveled in what they

The Department of Transportation’s policy plans for 2010-2015 would: -- Focus transportation policy on “achieving strategic outcomes” in broader national goals.

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach spent almost $80 million combined on incentives to get carriers and owner-operators driving clean diesel trucks.

Profitability and higher pricing evaded Con-way Freight in the first quarter, despite a 34.8 percent surge in freight tonnage that filled the carrier’s less-than-truckload network.

For a few hours this month, Congress trained a spotlight on someone rarely noticed in Washington — the trucker who works the nation’s ports, hauling containers from docks to distribution p

The Department of Transportation is expected to brief members of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on a plan for cross-border trucking with Mexico before Mexican President Felipe C

Intermodal marketing companies tilted their traffic share much more toward rail-truck combination moves in the first quarter and away from all-highway loads, according to the Intermodal Association of

Cross-border trade with Canada isn't just about sales and profit, it's about millions of jobs, U.S. and Canadian business executives told members of Congress this week.

The CEO of Norfolk Southern Railway told investors that railroads are fighting a group of “cynical and short-sighted” shippers who are pursuing a new federal regulatory bill that jeopardiz

Norfolk Southern Railway’s domestic intermodal business grew 35 percent year-over-year in April, expanding at a faster pace than even a robust first quarter for the business, Chairman, President

First-quarter intermodal shipments across North America rose 8.4 percent, as domestic rail-truck moves outpaced even a sharp rebound in international containers placed aboard trains.

Revenue shot up 58 percent in the first quarter at ground and air carrier Express-1 Expedited Solutions, rising to $31.6 billion, as the economic recovery fueled sales.

Rail equipment makers L.B.

The nation's freight tonnage shrank almost 13 percent last year, but is set to expand 25 percent by 2021, according to a report by the American Trucking Associations.

Truckload spot freight volume jumped 291 percent in April from the same month a year ago, hitting its highest level since June 2008, according to TransCore.

Con-way will sell some 4.3 million shares of its stock in a special offering aimed at bringing new cash into the trucking and logistics company for what Con-way said would be “general corporate

Railroads, shippers and leasing firms activated about 18,000 idled railcars of various cargo types during April, a slowdown from the pace of recent months.

A survey next month aims to discover what the trucks that cross the Thousand Islands Bridge each day between the United States and Canada are carrying.

Climate and energy legislation proposed May 12 by Sens.

Canadian National Railway worked out a “modal shift protocol” with a British Columbia firm that markets carbon offsets, to count freight that shifts off trucks onto rail.

BNSF Railway saw its profit surge 73 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier to $506 million, as revenue grew 13 percent to $3.864 billion.

Virginia's new Republican governor is seeking a green light for tolling on a portion of I-95 near the North Carolina border.

Con-way Freight is expanding its international partnership with TNT to bring trans-Atlantic freight to Miami and Los Angeles.

BNSF Railway did not get much satisfaction in fighting a major coal rate judgment against it by the Surface Transportation Board, as the U.S. Court of Appeals largely backed the STB decision.

Demand for new trucks and other equipment is rising as the economy improves and capacity tightens, surveys by two vehicle market research firms report.

Intermodal trucker J.B. Hunt Transport Services will buy more than 5,000 heavy trucks from Navistar over the next five years.

YRC Worldwide will have a "global solution" to mounting pension and financial obligations within a few months, Chairman, CEO and President William D.

Hyundai Intermodal, a unit of Hyundai Merchant Marine, will switch from Norfolk Southern to CSX Transportation as its eastern-U.S. railroad partner beginning June 1.

Train dispatchers in Canada for Canadian National Railway have ratified a three-year labor contract that goes back to 2009.

The national average price of diesel fuel grew for the sixth straight week, climbing half-a-cent to $3.127 per gallon, the highest price in 18 months, the U.S.

In a stark sign of the cloud rising fuel costs are casting over the trucking industry, truck stop operator TravelCenters of America says its net loss grew 56 percent in the first quarter to $41.2 mill

Buoyed by five straight months of increased consumer spending, domestic shippers and carriers are “cautiously optimistic” about the economic recovery.

With rail freight traffic improving steadily, capacity is on its way back.