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Truckload carrier Marten Transport earned a profit of $4.3 million on operating revenue of $128.7 million in the fourth quarter of 2009.

Truckload carrier Celadon earned less than last year in the quarter ended Dec. 31, but demand began to pick up as the weak U.S. economy started to grow again.

President Obama is expected to award the long-delayed $8 billion in stimulus grants Thursday to develop high-speed rail systems and expand passenger train use along numerous freight rail corridors, ac

Canadian National Railway, bouyed by lower tax rates from Canadian provinces and receipts from selling some track to a transit agency, posted fourth-quarter net income of $548 million, up 1.6 percent

A ban on cell-phone text messaging by truck drivers imposed today should be extended to all motorists, said the president of the American Trucking Associations.

The Department of Transportation's ban on cell-phone texting by truckers is just the first of several actions expected this year that will tighten federal truck driver regulations.

The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association supports a ban on texting by truck drivers, but isn't happy with how the Department of Transportation imposed it.

BNSF Railway implemented service improvements that cut scheduled trip times for 60 percent of its premium domestic intermodal traffic, saving shippers up to half a day on their long hauls, the company

Truck and bus drivers will be banned from sending text messages over cell phones while driving, the Department of Transportation said Tuesday.

Claude Mongeau, who took over this year as Canadian National Railway’s president and CEO, named his top operations and marketing executives as he builds out his leadership team.

Retail diesel prices dived 3.7 cents to $2.833 per gallon last week, the U.S. Energy Information administration reported Jan. 25.

Truck tonnage hit its highest peak since the depths of the recession in December, but may be more moderate in coming months, the American Trucking Associations said.

Battling for shippers, YRC Worldwide is offering a no-fee, money-back standard service guarantee promising a 100 percent refund if goods don’t arrive on the scheduled day.

This year’s heavy-duty trucks may be the cleanest, most advanced and most expensive models ever to hit U.S. highways, but to manufacturers, they’re already old hat.

Shipper efforts to reduce transportation costs and meet sustainability goals are driving changes in carrier networks.

Through the worst freight recession in decades and despite fierce trucking competition to keep loads on the highway, the domestic intermodal industry has held up pretty well.

European Union competition regulators Jan. 25 approved the takeover by France’s state railway SNCF of Geneva-based Ermewa, a leading railcar and rail container leasing firm.

By issuing a final regulation on automated train equipment, or positive train control, the Federal Railroad Administration cleared a path for railroads to spend billions of dollars on what is la

With 2010 contract bidding in full swing, one shipper has advice for his fellow shippers: “Help the good carriers out.”

The trucking companies that succeed in the new decade may take lessons from their oldest competitors.

“We’re seeing business activity improving, and supply and demand are beginning to come back into balance,” the co-chairman of the Chattanooga, Tenn.-based truckload carrier said.

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Trucking companies and their customers, parched by a three-year decline in freight shipping followed by a recession that amounted to a depression in consumer demand, are eager for any sign that econom

Truckers should be green with envy at the pricing power their oceangoing counterparts are beginning to wield.

Like the first few raindrops after a long drought, the freight rate increases ocean and surface carriers are beginning to nail down are not enough to slake their thirst.

The 88,322 shipments picked up by small North American railroads in the latest week were the most since the week of Nov. 21 and were up 1.2 percent from the same point last year.

The National Transportation Safety Board wants the federal government to “require audio and image recorders in the cabs of all locomotives,” after determining that a commuter train operato

Shipments of commercial trailers hit a 32-year low in December while reaching their highest point in 2009, said ACT Research.

YRC Worldwide will release fourth-quarter financial results Feb.

The number of people killed in accidents involving heavy trucks declined 12 percent in 2008, the latest year for which complete figures are available.

Arkansas Best will take a $64 million charge in the fourth quarter because of impairment to the value of goodwill at its less-than-truckload subsidiary, ABF Freight System.

BNSF Railway plans to spend $2.4 billion in 2010 on capital improvements including track upgrades and freight cars, a drop of 10 percent from 2009 as it expects to make fewer purchases of locomotives.

BNSF Railway, in likely its last earnings report as a public company, saw it’s net profit fall 12.8 percent in the fourth quarter from a year earlier, to $536 million, but the company showed str

Freight equipment leasing firm GATX said its net profit fell 25.6 percent to $21.5 million in the fourth quarter as a decline in rail shipping demand pushed pushed the profit in railcar lease op

New freight carload and intermodal pickups by major U.S. railroads rose in the week ending Jan. 16, but remained below their recent highs.

The largest U.S. freight railroad, Union Pacific, came out against the version of the rail regulatory bill that cleared the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee last month.

Western-U.S. carrier Union Pacific Railroad saw fourth-quarter profit fall 17 percent from a year earlier to $551 million, while net income for all of 2009 fell 19 percent to $1.9 billion.

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters urged federal regulators at a hearing to scrap a regulation that increased the number of hours truckers can drive.

The American Trucking Associations wants federal regulators to add more flexibility to truck driver hours of service rules, but not to cut the daily driving limit of 11 hours (

President Obama is nominating Jeffrey R. Moreland, a former senior attorney with BNSF Railway and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, to join Amtrak’s board of directors.