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The Teamsters union said Monday it is considering launching formal talks with ABF Freight System to renegotiating the less-than-truckload carrier's contract

Portec Rail Products, whose offerings range from track spikes to data management, saw fourth-quarter earnings fall 4.8 percent from a year earlier to $1.44 million.

Trucking supplier TMW Systems says motor carriers are stepping up their purchasing of new software or upgraded technology, suggesting an economic recovery is taking hold in the industry.

Rail equipment supplier Wabtec bought the signal engineering and design services firm Xorail for $40 million in cash, equal to about one year’s worth of Xorail sales.

The recession pummeled less-than-truckload carriers in 2009 without regard to size, driving revenue down at a double-digit rate at all of the top 25 LTL trucking companies.

When Old Dominion Freight Line first ventured into warehousing, capacity was tight and space was at a premium. Unfortunately, that was in November 2008.

Several months of congressional skirmishing and one large flare-up over funding tried the nerves of the most steadfast advocates for transportation reform.

With February’s snowbanks melting away and the economy warming up, the flow of rail freight is thawing out across North America.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey will ban the oldest drayage trucks from its terminals next Jan. 1 but won’t force owner-operator drivers to become company employees.

At the end of 2009, the less-than-truckload industry had been razed by a price war that burned away carrier profits.

Thirteen shipper groups, hoping the Senate will keep a rail competition bill alive in the face of sharp criticism by top carriers, told lawmakers they want to see it through.

At first glance, the former president and CEO of FedEx Freight might seem an anomaly on the board of J.B. Hunt Transport Services.FedEx Freight and J.B.

North Carolina awarded a $14.3 million contract to a Kentucky company to build a 5.6-mile rail spur to connect an aircraft parts manufacturing site to the Port of Morehead City.

North America’s regional and short line railroads are steadily adding traffic and setting new highs almost weekly in their recent volume levels.

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U.S. freight railroad operations had their safest year ever in 2009, said the Association of American Railroads.

The trucking industry continues to lose workers, but it's cutting jobs at a lower rate than a year ago, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Greatwide Logistics aims to recruit mid-tier shippers as it expands its dedicated contract carriage and third-party transportation services in the nascent recovery.

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The Port of New York and New Jersey will ban the oldest drayage trucks from its terminals starting next Jan. 1 in the first phase of a multi-step program to reduce air pollution from trucks.

Teamster employees at YRC Worldwide subsidiary Reddaway this week turned down a proposed contract that included wage and benefits cuts.

YRC Worldwide cut its payroll 34.5 percent last year and a further 5.5 percent so far in 2010, reducing its workforce from 55,000 to 34,000 employees.

The White House is looking for a route out of a year-long trade dispute with Mexico over the elimination of a cross-border trucking pilot project.

Freight brokerage giant C.H. Robinson says its base of carriers shrank 6 percent, or 3,000 carriers, in 2009 as the recession took a toll on transportation capacity providers.

The national average price of diesel fuel reached its highest point in more than a year in the past week, jumping 4.3 cents to surpass $2.90 a gallon for the first time since November 2008, the U.S.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey plans this week to release details of a clean-air program expected to phase out older, dirtier trucks at port terminals.

A spike in cargo volume could produce a driver shortage and would expose bottlenecks on key freight corridors, the chairman of the American Trucking Associations warns.

Norfolk Southern Railway will pay a $4 million penalty to settle alleged Clean Water Act violations, the government said, in connection with a catastrophic 2005 chlorine spill from a train accident in

Kansas City Southern bought the Puerta Mexico intermodal terminal facility about 40 miles west of Mexico City at Toluca, and plans soon to start running trains to it from the Pacific Ocean container p

Small railroads across North America are seeing their new freight loadings reach the highest levels in nearly a year, fueled by demand for a broad range of cargoes.

At a time when there is a huge oversupply of idled freight railcars and ocean ships, Canada’s Nova Scotia provincial government is drawing from those industries to aim at another that has growin

YRC Worldwide must boost the value of its stock above $1 per share by Aug. 30 or face delisting, the Nasdaq Stock Market exchange warned the carrier.

The open road doesn’t have the allure it once did for some truckload carriers, or for their shippers.

Union Pacific Railroad and CSX Transportation say customers will get the most out of their new UMAX domestic intermodal service in the form of faster, more efficient service across the country.

A group representing independent truck drivers responded angrily to reports the White House may be looking to open talks with Congress about a new cross-border trucking program with Mexico, calling th

Cities pressing for the legal authority to regulate harbor trucking should find out how far they can go in court in late April.

New loadings of the type of bulk materials and equipment that ride in regular railcars pushed to its highest level in more than a year for major U.S.-owned railroads.

Despite signs of a slowly improving economy, employment in the transportation modes that include freight operations slid further in February, the Labor Department reported.

Same-day carrier Dynamex increased its revenue slightly in its latest quarter as sequential quarter-to-quarter core sales increased for the second consecutive period.

Edward Rodzwicz, who had been national president until Nov.