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Diesel prices slipped back nine-tenths of a cent last week after a three-week surge. The national retail average fell from $2.879 to $2.87 per gallon as of Jan.

With some Chicago suburbs still mounting legal challenges to the acquisition by Canadian National Railway of a short line railroad around the city, the Surface Transportation Board said it is now aski

Truckload pricing must rise alongside freight volume as capacity tightens and higher costs bear down on truckload carriers, says veteran trucking executive Pat Quinn.

In terms of freight volume, truckload carriers are doing better than many analysts expected in early 2010, thanks to a strong finish to 2009.

CSX Corp., parent company of the nation’s largest eastern railroad, reported $2.32 billion in revenue for the fiscal fourth quarter ending Dec.

The head of the Transportation Intermediaries Association says the group could accept a 10-fold increase in bonds required for licensed freight brokers in exchange for stronger regulation of the licen

UPS is adding 245 new delivery trucks powered by compressed natural gas to its fleet in Colorado and California, expanding its use of CNG vehicles more than 20 percent.

YRC Worldwide regional subsidiary Holland reduced transit times on cross-border lanes linking Toronto and the U.S. Midwest, cutting a day from transit times in some lanes.

The American Trucking Associations is suing the Department of Transportation in an attempt to force it to declare what supporting documents trucking companies must keep to prove their employees comply

Con-way Freight is speeding service by a full day in some lanes by cutting transit times to 460 U.S. destinations.

Flatbed trucking has been flatlining.

A Surface Transportation Board case involving a new 80-mile rail line in Alaska suggests a potential fissure between the railroad industry’s three key economic regulators even as Congress debate

When heavy snows and frigid weather hit much of the nation in the first two weeks of the year, several states lifted weight restrictions on trucks, some to help endangered crops to get to market and o

MONTREAL — Canadian National Railway on Monday announced it will make an initial donation of C$100,000 (US$97,500) to the Red Cross in support of the agency's relief efforts in Haiti.

Universal Truckload Services rolled out of 2009 with three new subsidiaries acquired in December -- a truckload carrier, a freight forwarder and a logistics operator.

FedEx Freight will raise its base rates 5.9 percent Feb. 1, signaling its retreat from a less-than-truckload price war that cut into profits in the second half of last year.

A panel that brings together rail officials, some of their customers and government officials to help shape U.S.

Trucking's spot market shot up 11 percent in December from November as freight volumes more than doubled year-over-year, according to TransCore.

The impact on rail operations from heavy winter storms across much of the U.S. Midwest and South last week curbed traffic at major U.S.

Eastern-U.S. rail giant CSX Transportation is telling employees it will match dollar for dollar any donations they make to the American Red Cross to aid earthquake relief efforts in Haiti.

Small railroads across North America started 2010 with traffic near the levels of mid-December but below the recent November peaks, according to the RMI RailConnect index of short lines and regional c

Intermodal logistics provider RoadLink named L. Michael Shelton as president, reporting to CEO Mike Haley.

YRC Worldwide is engaging its competitors -- and the media -- in a fierce battle for freight and customer confidence after squelching fears of a near-term bankruptcy.

Union Pacific Railroad over the weekend tested an ultra-long 18,000-foot double-stack train on a run from Texas to Southern California, but the railroad apparently does not intend to run such long tra

DB Schenker Rail acquired an additional 11 percent of the Italian rail freight operator NordCargo, bringing its total stake in the Milan-based company to 60 percent.

While North American rail hauls of intermodal equipment fell 14.6 percent in 2009 to 11,670,350 units, largely due to a shrinking ocean container market, the biggest part of the domestic rail-truck bu

Production of heavy trucks will increase 22 percent in the first quarter, as manufacturers work to fulfill the last orders placed by truckers in 2009, ACT Research says.

The two recession years of 2008 and most of 2009 left carloads of bulk materials and equipment at major U.S. railroads down 18.2 percent from 2007, said the Association of American Railroads.

Arrow Trucking, which stranded hundreds of drivdrs in an abrupt shutdown Christmas week and filed for bankruptcy protection in the face of a series of lawsuits, relaunched its Web site with a call to

A new federal rule issued Tuesday on automated train management systems allows railroads to wrap up their implementation plans in time for an April deadline, the Federal Railroad administration said.<

Arrow Trucking, the flatbed carrier that suddenly closed just before Christmas, entered bankruptcy amid a welter of lawsuits and allegations of fraud from one of its lenders.

Roadrunner Transportation Services this month closed on the acquisition of Bullet Freight Systems.

The average retail price of diesel fuel soared 8.2 cents last week to a 13-month high of $2.879 per gallon, according to figures from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

In what may be the first acquisition in trucking of 2010, Henderson Transport, a truckload carrier in Bensenville, Ill., bought Towns Transportation, Birmingham, Ala.

Daimler Trucks North America, Navistar and Cummins received more than $100 million in federal grants Monday to improve the fuel mileage of heavy-duty trucks.

The Amtrak passenger rail service will buy more than 100 locomotives, along with hundreds of new passenger cars, in what it is billing as a &ldquo;major equipment purchase.&rdquo;

Rail supplier Portec Rail Products began selling its fault detection product line in China, expanding sales in that country.

A gigantic snowstorm across the Appalachian region, followed by mishaps that shut down both conveyor belts at a huge coal export terminal, brought 2009 to sour close for rail shipments of export coal.

The economic recovery may turn out to be crueler than the recession for trucking companies battered by the worst downturn in decades.