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The acquisition of BNSF Railway by investment firm Berkshire Hathaway may determine how major freight companies talk to their marketplace for years to come.

YRC Worldwide is even getting money from the federal government these days, but what the country’s largest trucking operator really needs is more revenue from shippers.

YRC Worldwide is using everything from online advertising on The Wall Street Journal’s Web site to offering coupons for return customers to win shippers.

The trucking industry is adding its voice to a coalition demanding tighter federal regulation of trading in commodity derivatives.

BNSF Railway officially became part of Berkshire Hathaway Feb.

Cash flowed more slowly through supply chains in January, reflecting longer payment periods among suppliers, transporters and customers in the first weeks of 2010, according to the latest Supply Chain

A recovering economy and reinvigorated trucking industry will increase demand for heavy- and medium-duty trucks late in 2010 and in 2011, says ACT Research, Columbus, Ind.

The California Air Resources Board will most likely give over-the-road truckers more time to comply with a rule designed to reduce diesel emissions from heavy-duty vehicles.

The purchase of BNSF Railway by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway will free up the railroad’s executives to focus more on developing rail assets for the long term, said BNSF Chairman, Pr

Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern states are beginning to lift emergency orders and travel restrictions imposed during yesterday's blizzard.

YRC Worldwide cleared a financial hurdle Thursday by eliminating $70 million in debt not included in its $464 million debt-for-equity swap in December, giving the carrier still greater stability in th

Stockholders of the corporation that owns BNSF Railway, North America’s second-largest railroad, approved the $26 billion bid from Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway to buy the 77 percent

The two major eastern-U.S. railroads – CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern Railway – were starting to dig out late on Feb. 10 and on Feb.

Two European intermodal operators said they will jointly develop a multimodal route on a corridor linking Antwerp with Germany, Austria, southeast Europe and Turkey.

The strong winter storms hitting the country this winter are sharply cutting stockpiles of coal held by electrical utilities, said Matthew K.

Logistics and trucking business The Dependable Companies acquired West Coast trucking company Matheson Fast Freight, expanding its stake in the California less-than-truckload market.

The international part of the U.S. intermodal market will be “weak” for most of 2010 because U.S.

The second major snowstorm to hit the Mid-Atlantic region in a week is paralyzing traffic in Pennsylvania, a hub state for freight moving to and from the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states.

BNSF Railway could become a wholly owned unit of investment firm Berkshire Hathaway this week if shareholders vote as expected Thursday to approve Berkshire’s $26 billion stock purchase.

Air freight and expedited less-than-truckload carrier Forward Air earned a profit of $6.4 million on revenue of $118 million in the quarter ended Dec. 31, the company reported.

This week’s severe winter storms prompted CSX Transportation to invoke the force majeure clause, for events outside its control, for service commitments on its important coal and automobile traf

Intermodal traffic on the BNSF Railway declined by double digits during last year's economic recession, but it is still one of the most important business units for the western railroad.

Cross-border trucking company Vitran drove close to break-even in 2009, narrowing its net loss more than 94 percent to $4 million.

Norfolk Southern Railway lifted its force majeure service declaration early on Feb. 9 for traffic moving through eastern-U.S. areas hit hard by the huge weekend snowstorm.

Schneider National will expand its pool of regional truckload drivers more than 600 percent this year, hiring an additional 2,100 drivers to fuel its short-haul business.

Kombiverkehr, Europe’s biggest intermodal transport operator, said traffic fell a less-than-expected 16 percent in 2009 from a year ago as demand started to grow again in the final quarter of th

Canadian National Railway plans to invest about $94 million to develop a logistics park northeast of Calgary, Alberta, and transfer into it most of the operations now at its southeast Calgary rail yar

Before a powerful series of winter storms began to strike early this month, major U.S. railroads enjoyed their strongest traffic in many weeks as January ended.

U.S. freight shippers sent their highest shares yet by intermodal combination moves in the 2009 fourth quarter, compared with using trucks only, said transportation consultants FTR Associates.

Truckload demand climbed in the first week of February, with flatbed and refrigerated trucking showing the most strength, Morgan Stanley Research reports.

Three days after a massive winter storm struck the mid-Atlantic region, freight transportation systems were still trying to recover to normal operating levels.

It took nearly a year and a stubbornly high unemployment rate before the Obama administration recast its long-awaited $8 billion in rail system grants as part of a jobs strategy.

Ports, cities and labor unions are sharply at odds not only with each other but within their own ranks over efforts to overhaul regulation of harbor trucking, and the rifts will make it even harder fo

Like most shippers, Wal-Mart Stores is looking for a delivery guarantee from its suppliers. Unlike most others, the world’s largest retailer now is demanding one.

U.S. Magnesium will recoup up to $1 million over five years under a Surface Transportation Board ruling that Union Pacific Railroad charged the chlorine shipper “unreasonably high” rates.

Truckload carriers, anticipating a gradual increase in shipments this year after a long drought, are calibrating capacity to regain some lost pricing leverage.

Major North American railroads are in good shape to take advantage of a 2010 economic recovery.

Less-than-truckload carriers can’t put 2009 far back in the rear-view mirrors fast enough.

YRC Worldwide’s liquidity should be sufficient to see it through 2010 and into 2011, absent a “downturn in industry or company fundamentals,” said Jon A.

Small railroads saw their traffic strengthen steadily in recent weeks, as manufacturers used them to bring in metal ores and haul away factory products.