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State agencies, freight railroads, transit operators and intermodal project planners could tap an expanded rail loan program or visit a new one-stop financial aid shop if Department of Transportation

While other transportation modes were losing market share last year during the freight recession, domestic intermodal was growing. Now that most of the indicators in the U.S.

Diesel prices have risen above $3 a gallon, extending a months-long trend that is pinching owner-operators and forcing shippers to pay higher surcharges.

As sales of Kenworth and Peterbilt trucks improved, manufacturer Paccar increased its profit 160 percent to $68.3 million in the first quarter.

Marten Transport earned net income of $3.9 million in the first quarter, compared with a profit of $4.1 million for the same quarter of 2009.

The latest week’s traffic at small railroads in North America was down moderately from a week earlier but was still the second-highest level in more than a year.

Although many rail shippers see railroads raising their freight rates, some key equipment costs shippers pay are still declining this year.

ABF Freight System lost $35.7 million in the first quarter, a 25 percent larger loss than a year ago, as shipments rose from a year ago but declined from the fourth quarter.

Third-party logistics giant C.H.

North America’s largest railroads are seeing a sharp pickup in traffic during April, with volume outpacing anything seen during 2009.

Union Pacific Railroad officials see their 3.5 percent “core pricing” gains in the first quarter as the low point of 2010, and look for their overall rates to strengthen more as the year c

An increase in shipments, value-added service sales and fuel surcharges helped boost Werner Enterprises' revenue to $425.1 million in the first quarter, an 8 percent year-over-year increase.

A firm recovery in truckload demand and higher fuel surcharges boosted Knight Transportation's revenue 11.4 percent from a year ago to $165.7 million in the first quarter.

BNSF Railway declared its new Memphis Intermodal Facility to be “fully operational” after a $200 million expansion, and cut the ribbon on it this week.

CSX Transportation, one of the continent&rsquo;s largest freight railroads, sees the greatest security risk for its system from potential terrorist attacks on passenger trains that run on CSX tracks.<

A court in Allegheny County, Pa., has issued a preliminary injunction to prevent rail equipment supplier L.B.

Rail and construction equipment supplier L.B. Foster saw net income fall 41 percent from a year earlier in the first quarter to $1.75 million but said new business orders also increased.

The biggest railroad just got bigger, as Union Pacific saw profit jump 43 percent in the first quarter to $516 million, from the same period in 2009, while revenue grew 16 percent to $3.755 billion.

In light of a new Surface Transportation Board summons to explain how often its trains have blocked rail crossings in Chicago suburbs, Canadian National Railway says its own reports to the STB openly

With business growing solidly in all its business lines, intermodal firm Hub Group posted a first quarter profit gain of 41 percent from the weak 2009 period.

Intermodal shipment consolidator Hub Group will buy a total of 2,500 new domestic, jumbo-sized containers this year, amid a demand surge that has it near full capacity.

The Fortune 500 list of largest U.S. businesses ranked by revenue includes 17 transportation and logistics companies this year, from UPS to Con-way.

Hub Group, one of the leading intermodal middleman firms, will take the remaining 1,400 containers it runs on BNSF Railway and move them this year to Union Pacific Railroad.

Teamsters at ABF Freight System will vote on a proposed 15 percent wage cut early next month, after ballots are mailed on or about April 30, the Teamsters union said.

The Department of Transportation is making nearly $49 billion of delayed highway funds available to states, following last month&rsquo;s passage by Congress of the HIRE Act.

Canadian National Railway needs to &ldquo;explain the significant differences,&rdquo; said the Surface Transportation Board, between CN&rsquo;s monthly reports and an audit of street-crossing blockage

A Vehicle Miles Traveled tax may be gaining mileage on Capitol Hill, but the nation&rsquo;s truckers want an alternate route.

Truckload carrier Heartland Express is detecting the first stirrings of a long-anticipated economic recovery.

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said it has revised its outlook on eastern-U.S.

When Amtrak&rsquo;s &ldquo;Heartland Flyer&rdquo; passenger train runs through cattle country in the next year from Oklahoma City to Fort Worth, Texas, it will be testing a 20 percent biodiesel blend

Amtrak is calling for Congress and the Obama administration to shape a new multiyear surface transportation bill that is &ldquo;revolutionary, not evolutionary&rdquo; in funding the growth of an inter

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Credit evaluator Standard & Poor's Ratings Services revised its outlook for Union Pacific Railroad to &ldquo;positive&rdquo; from &ldquo;stable,&rdquo; given the recovery under way in freight busi

The average price of diesel rose half a cent last week to $3.074 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

North American rail freight customers of locomotive builder GE Transportation are reducing the number of train power units they have stored as freight activity grows, GE officials said.

Workers at ABF Freight System will give up 15 percent of their wages but retain full pension benefits under a tentative concession plan approved today by local Teamster leaders.

Heavy truck orders rose 28 percent year-over-year in March to 11,285 units, following stronger than anticipated sales in February, ACT Research reported today.

Daimler Trucks North America and the United Auto Workers reached agreement on contracts covering employees at three U.S. plants.

The only dispute in the truckload industry over the direction of rates this spring is whether pricing is going up fast or very fast.

The U.S. Maritime Administration&rsquo;s plan to construct marine highways won&rsquo;t just take pressure off roads.