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The less-than-truckload industry shrank 24.4 percent in 2009, as total U.S. LTL revenue plunged from $33.3 billion to $25.2 billion, according to an industry study.

Seven of the top 25 less-than-truckload carriers reported more than a billion dollars in revenue in 2009, according to a study of the LTL industry.

YRC Worldwide is still the largest U.S.

American Railcar Industries managed to boost its profit in the fourth quarter, to $10.5 million from $7.6 million a year earlier, but it wasn’t from building freight cars.

The House, by a 217-212 margin, approved the $15 billion Senate-drafted Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act, which includes provisions to extend existing highway programs until Dec.

The House is expected to take up the Senate’s version of a jobs bill on Thursday, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., said Wednesday.

Competition between West and East Coast ports for Asian cargo has hit a point of equilibrium and market share probably won't change much in the coming years.

Old Dominion Freight Line is reaching deeper into shipper supply chains by expanding its warehousing division.

Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services gave a “BBB” rating to new CSX long-term debt notes, saying the eastern-U.S.

Early data show heavy truck orders climbed 19.7 percent in February from January, but were well below last year's average, indicating a slow recovery in new Class 8 truck orders, said FTR Associates.<

The economic recovery is finding its wheels at Landstar System, which saw its load volume leap 17 percent in January and again in February from depressed levels a year ago.

Finnish stevedores are set to walk off the job on March 4, joining striking truckers in a nationwide transport stoppage that threatens to bring industry to a halt and strangle the Nordic nation's fore

The Coast Guard terminated an application for the Detroit International Bridge Co. to build a new bridge adjacent to its 81-year-old Ambassador Bridge.

The Department of Transportation&rsquo;s highway programs remained shuttered for a second day, as lawmakers again failed to convince Sen.

The trucking industry hasn't seen the last of Douglas G. Duncan.

Wolfe Research suspended its &ldquo;underperform&rdquo; stock rating for YRC Worldwide pending a more complete fourth-quarter and full-year earnings report from the company.

The average price for diesel jumped 2.9 cents to $2.861 per gallon last week, the second consecutive week of increases after a five-week fall, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

State transportation officials warned on Monday that if Congress can&rsquo;t pass an extension of highway funding in the next few days, they will be forced to put new projects on hold, and delay or ca

All states met a key deadline in last year&rsquo;s stimulus law to obligate their highway project spending before March 2, said Vice President Joseph Biden and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.

Charging that &ldquo;political games&rdquo; are forcing a partial shutdown of federal operations and support to states, U.S.

UPS Freight is extending its reach across the U.S.-Canadian border by shortening transit times between major Canadian cities and U.S. markets.

The White House is looking for a route around roadblocks to a new cross-border trucking agreement with Mexico, hoping to end a year-long trade dispute hurting many U.S. companies.

Detroit&rsquo;s Ambassador Bridge, the busiest U.S.-Canadian border crossing, handled far fewer trucks than usual last year, as the recession drove the number of commercial vehicles using the span dow

The confidence across Canada hardly ends with this year&rsquo;s Winter Olympics.

Driver pay has been a factor in driver shortages since at least 1914, when a publication called Motor Truck reported, &ldquo;Nearly all employers complain of the great difficulty of securing drivers w

The Obama administration is making big down payments on a wide range of major freight projects around the country with its latest $1.5 billion in transportation grants.

Rail freight shippers and the largest U.S. railroads are increasingly on a collision course over rules that could govern their market for decades to come.

After last year&rsquo;s massive layoffs, tens of thousands of truck drivers are unemployed, and more trucking bankruptcies are expected as the nascent recovery takes root.

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Rep. James L.

IBM is launching an initiative to break traffic congestion bottlenecks.

Major surface transportation programs at the Department of Transportation were in danger of shutting down starting Monday after a senator raised objections to final passage of a short-term extens

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is kicking off a program that eventually will let trucking companies review drivers' safety and crash records before hiring them.

After almost two years of litigation and appeals, U.S. District Court Judge Christina A.

By issuing a news series of bonds to pay off $45 million in near-term debt, YRC Worldwide "reduced the likelihood of a default in the very near term," said Fitch Ratings.

A test of a vehicle mileage tax in Oregon should be extended nationwide in the next surface transportation bill, Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore., said today.

Freight traffic for major U.S.-owned railroads improved after two storm-stunted weeks, but remained below the pace of the last half of January.

Norfolk Southern Railway hopes to begin construction by July on new intermodal terminals in Memphis, Tenn., and Birmingham, Ala., now that it has a large stimulus grant to help pay for them.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told short line railroad officials the Senate will act on legislation next week that includes a renewal of an expired tax credit for track repairs for small railroads

Trucking is "clearly in a recovery mode," with the American Trucking Associations' truck tonnage index showing its strongest increase since January 2005 last month.