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A National Intermodal Shift
William B. Cassidy and John D. Boyd |
The Obama administration is forming a national freight transportation policy that can be boiled down to one concept: Get more trucks off the roads.
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
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Rail News
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Trucking Aid Within Haiti
William B. Cassidy |
The U.N.
Trucking News
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Caring for Trucking’s ‘Orphans’
JOC Staff |
Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., unveiled legislation on March 22 that would reform multi-employer pension plans.
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Trucking News
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Trucking labor
Keeping ’Em Moving
Bill Mongelluzzo |
Container terminal operators in Los Angeles-Long Beach have taken their lumps over the years because of congestion problems, but they have also been innovators in reducing gate delays through the Pier
Maritime
Maritime
Trucking News
Forwarding
North American ports
The Greening of Big Brown
Peter T. Leach |
If you’ve ever received a package from UPS, you’re all too familiar with those tiny handheld devices the drivers wield to scan bar codes and get your signature.
Trucking News
Trucking News
Cargo Liability’s Supreme Challenge
R.G. Edmonson |
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to unsnarl a tangle that leaves carriers and cargo owners questioning who should be liable for damages on cargoes shipped from a foreign port.
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Rail News
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Container lines
Forwarding
Replenishing Depleted Pensions
William B. Cassidy |
Support for broad-based pension reform is growing in Washington as businesses and labor unions seek a federal fix for troubled union and corporate retirement plans.
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Trucking labor
Highway Safety, Marine Style
R.G. Edmonson |
The marine highways concept has a number of selling points.
Maritime
Maritime
Trucking News
Forwarding
Specialized Trucker Prime Raises Base Pay
William B. Cassidy |
Specialized truckload carrier Prime raised its minimum pay for owner-operators last month to 95 cents a mile, as growing freight traffic sparks higher demand for drivers.
Trucking News
Trucking News
Biggest Trucking Companies Shrinking
William B. Cassidy |
The select group of trucking companies with more than a billion dollars in annual revenue shrank last year, as four companies fell below the revenue threshold.
Trucking News
Trucking News
LTL
CenterPoint Leases to Shipper in Joliet
Thomas L. Gallagher |
Real estate developer CenterPoint Properties signed a build-to-suit lease with a chemical manufacturer attracted by rail service provided by Union Pacific.
Rail News
Rail News
Canadian National Sells Track to Metrolinx
Thomas L. Gallagher |
Canadian National Railway sold a section of track to a government-owned agency responsible for the Toronto area transportation network.
Rail News
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North-American rail
DOT Requires On-board Recorders for HOS Violators
William B. Cassidy |
More than 5,000 trucking companies will be required to install electronic on-board recorders in their trucks, the Department of Transportation said Friday.
Trucking News
Trucking News
Jobs Increase Across Transport Modes
John D. Boyd |
March brought increases in employment across U.S. surface transportation industries, with mild job gains in trucking, rail and waterborne commerce breaking a long downtrend during the recession.
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Trucking labor
Canadian Pacific Inks Coal Deal
John D. Boyd |
Canadian Pacific Railway reached a new one-year agreement with Teck Coal, a major shipper of high-heat coal needed for steelmaking furnaces, to haul the fuel from Teck’s mines in southeastern Br
Rail News
Rail News
North-American rail
Parcel Carriers Claim Bigger Share of Trucking
William B. Cassidy |
The two largest trucking businesses increased their market share last year despite falling revenue, holding onto business better than many of their smaller competitors.
Trucking News
Trucking News
LTL
Autos, Metals Push Rail Traffic Higher
John D. Boyd |
Traffic jumped at the largest North American railroads as March ended, powered by shipments of finished vehicles and equipment along with materials at earlier stages from metallic ores to metal produc
Rail News
Rail News
North-American rail
Floods Close I-95 in Rhode Island
Thomas L. Gallagher |
Flooding after torrential rains left parts of Interstate 95 in Rhode Island under more than three feet of water Wednesday and Thursday.
Trucking News
Trucking News
Prime Leads Top 50 Truckers in Revenue Gain
William B. Cassidy |
Specialized truckload carrier Prime managed to do something none of the 49 other top trucking companies accomplished in 2009: Increase its revenue.
Trucking News
Trucking News
Truck Demand Forecast to Surge in 2011
William B. Cassidy |
Demand for Class 8 heavy trucks will increase just 3 percent this year, but shoot up more than 50 percent in 2011, research firm FTR Associates says.
Trucking News
Trucking News
FRA to Grant $115 Million for Rail Construction
John D. Boyd |
The Federal Railroad Administration will start taking applications this week from states for an additional $115 million in planning and construction project funds, which FRA will target to support the
Rail News
Rail News
Congress Sets Harbor Trucking Hearing
R.G. Edmonson |
A congressional panel set a hearing for May 5 on proposals to allow the economic regulation of harbor trucking, an issue that has sharply divided shippers and trade groups from a handful of ports and
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Trucking labor
Trucker Knight Eyes Major Acquisition
William B. Cassidy |
Truckload operator Knight Transportation is working on the potential acquisition of a fellow carrier that generated $450 million in revenue last year.
Trucking News
Trucking News
DOT Proposes Rule Banning Truck Driver Texting
William B. Cassidy |
The Department of Transportation proposed a rule Wednesday that would make permanent a two-month-old ban on cell-phone texting by truck and bus drivers.
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Trucking News
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Improved Auto Demand Lifts Rail Shipments
John D. Boyd |
U.S. sales of new automobiles are strengthening for all the largest car manufacturers, and generating sharp increases in shipments for materials, car parts and finished vehicles.
Rail News
Rail News
North-American rail
Pacer Replaces Commercial, Finance Chiefs
John D. Boyd |
Intermodal services firm Pacer International is replacing its chief financial and commercial officers as it continues a transition in its business plan after major shifts in 2009.
Rail News
Rail News
DOT Taps Freight Groups for Stats Help
John D. Boyd |
Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood tapped 10 leading analysts representing the freight industry, state highway agencies and academia to advise his Department on data it gathers.
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Maritime
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NAFTA Trade Soared in January
Thomas L. Gallagher |
Trade using surface transportation between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement partners Canada and Mexico soared 19.5 percent from January 2009 to January 2010 in the largest
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Trucking News
Rail News
Foster Buys Bridge Operation
John D. Boyd |
Rail and construction industry supplier L.B. Foster bought key bridge-building assets of Interlocking Deck Systems International for nearly $7 million.
Rail News
Rail News
FedEx Express to Test Electric Trucks in LA
William B. Cassidy |
FedEx Express today unveiled plans to test its first all-electric parcel delivery vans, plugging two of four test trucks into its Los Angeles-area fleet in June.
Trucking News
Trucking News
Teamsters Praise NLRB Appointments
John D. Boyd |
Teamsters General President James P.
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Trucking labor
Diesel Slips to $2.939 per Gallon
Thomas L. Gallagher |
Slipping an average of seven-tenths of a cent across the country, the price of diesel ended a five-week climb at $2.939 per gallon Monday, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Trucking News
Trucking News
Trailer Orders Spike 168 Percent
William B. Cassidy |
Increased truckload freight demand is showing up in surging trailer sales, says ACT Research.
Trucking News
Trucking News
Con-way Freight, TNT Expand Partnership
William B. Cassidy |
Con-way Freight and TNT are expanding their trans-Atlantic partnership to include shipping U.S. exports to Europe, targeting freight shipments weighing more than 150 pounds.
Trucking News
Trucking News
Container lines
Forwarding
LTL
Union Pacific Rates to Climb, Says Analyst
John D. Boyd |
Union Pacific Railroad “will continue to generate core price increases of roughly 4-6 percent over the next few years,” said stock analyst Lee A. Klaskow of Longbow Research.
Rail News
Rail News
North-American rail
Measuring Port Productivity
Bill Mongelluzzo |
When it comes to measuring productivity at marine terminals, The Tioga Group has some advice: Look to the gates, not the acres.
Maritime
Maritime
Trucking News
Forwarding
Positive Collision Course
John D. Boyd |
Conflict is swirling around the crash-avoidance technology known as positive train control.
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Rail News
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
LTL Carriers to Shippers: Yield
William B. Cassidy |
The less-than-truckload sector is yielding to the demands of yield, carrier executives insist, turning from price-cutting aimed at rapidly gaining market share to rebuilding profit.
Trucking News
Trucking News
LTL
Moving Like a Train
John D. Boyd |
It may not be clear when the Senate might vote on a committee bill to tighten competition rules for freight railroads, but a key lawmaker says disgruntled rail executives know the legislation is
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Rail News
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Now Firing, and Hiring
William B. Cassidy |
Trucking executives are worried about a driver shortage, but some drivers may be more worried about keeping their jobs.
Trucking News
Trucking News
Trucking labor
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