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YRC Worldwide clinched a deal with reluctant bondholders last month with a lot of help from its good friends, the Teamsters.

Forget Times Square.

Railroads and shippers are in a growing dustup over coal dust that could change the way key rail cargo is handled.

U.S. rail and water transport jobs edged up slightly in December, but the larger trucking and air sectors continued to cut back.

Rail freight shippers in the United States have plenty of reason to see 2010 as a time when government actions could fundamentally reshape their industry.

Rail executives, transportation analysts, economists and commodity specialists are looking to the housing market for signs of the direction of lumber shipments, but the market has been sending mixed m

The future of coal is not what it used to be, and that simple fact can alter the business model for freight railroads.

Trucking executives rolled into 2010 hoping business, if not much better, would not be any worse than in 2009. But they aren’t expecting much of a boost early in the year.

North America’s railroads face challenges in 2010 notably different from those most freight-hauling industries must deal with: how to generate better results after what in many ways was a banner

If any segment of the trucking industry were naturally resistant to recession, it would be food hauling and refrigerated transport.

Truckload demand gained strength in early 2010, with little sign of a post-holiday downturn, according to Morgan Stanley.

GE Transportation will deliver 50 new freight locomotives to Brazilian sugar and ethanol producer Cosan, with the engines built in the United States and the locomotive structures in Brazil.

Detroit billionaire and bridge-owner Manuel "Matty" Maroun may oppose a government-owned span linking the Michigan city and Canada, but that won't stop him from setting up trucking operation

Old Dominion Freight Line will raise its rates an average of 4.4 percent, effective Jan. 18, the regional less-than-truckload carrier said Friday.

Small railroads across North America lost one fourth of their freight volume in 2009, according to the RMI RailConnect index of short lines and regional railroads.

YRC Worldwide paid one of its top executives $400,000 this week as part of a non-competition and confidentially agreement that includes an additional $400,000 in incentive pay if he stays with the com

Railcar and barge builder Greenbrier lost $3.2 million in its September-November fiscal first quarter of 2010, less of a decline than its $3.9 million loss a year earlier.

The latest in a series of strong winter storms is disrupting all forms of surface freight transportation, as rivers and rail switches ice up and some Interstate highways have closed at times from heav

The 2009 plunge in bulk U.S.

The two big Canadian Class I railroads suffered a sharper decline in bulk carload traffic in 2009 than U.S.-based major lines, while their drop in intermodal matched the U.S.

A Port of Long Beach advertisement promoting its clean-truck plan to neighboring communities attracted the support of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 13.

Late-year gains in some commodity cargoes and in intermodal business were not enough to let large U.S. rail lines escape double-digit declines in both types of traffic.

Major U.S. railroads hauled fewer intermodal units in 2009 than any time since 2003, meaning the deep recession took six years of growth away from intermodal train traffic.

Penske Truck Leasing entered into an agreement with the Bright family to acquire Bright Truck Leasing & Bright Distribution. Financial terms were not disclose

Less-than-truckload pricing, which took a sharp turn downward toward the end of the 2009, will begin to firm by the second half of 2010 regardless of whether YRC Worldwide is still in business, invest

Fewer shippers are considering diverting freight from YRC Worldwide in the wake of its successful debt-for-equity swap, but a significant percentage of shippers are still shifting volume to other carr

Dennis Copeland is leaving his position as senior vice president and chief administrative officer at Quality Distribution.

Shippers are returning to YRC Worldwide "pretty aggressively," Chairman and CEO William D.

The ocean port at Everett, Wash., will build a rail spur to expand its freight train operations, largely paid with federal funds for disaster preparations.

The Alaska Railroad won approval from the Surface Transportation Board to build an 80-mile northern extension from the town of North Pole, outside Fairbanks, southeast to Delta Junction, an area now s

Surface trade between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement partners Canada and Mexico grew for the fifth consecutive month in October and showed improvement in the rate of dec

The American Trucking Associations filed its final response brief with the U.S.

The first stage of an 86 percent increase in toll rates for trucks went into effect Tuesday on the U.S. side of the Blue Water Bridge, the third busiest U.S. international commercial land crossing.

The three-member Surface Transportation Board now has Francis P. Mulvey serving as its vice chairman, under an annual rotation. He replaces Charles D. Nottingham in that role.

Norfolk Southern Railway’s large coal loading port terminal is back to normal at Norfolk, Va., and the railroad on Jan. 5 lifted its “force majeure” declaration on coal moves.

A "systematic underbuy" of heavy trucks is tightening truckload capacity and eventually will push rates higher, R.W. Baird & Co. analyst Jon A. Langenfeld said.

Retail diesel prices surged last week across the country, soaring an average of 6.5 cents to $2.797 per gallon, less than a penny off the highest level in more than a year, according to the U.S.

Fresh from winning the bondholders it needed to complete its debt-for-equity swap, YRC Worldwide is preparing to take the swap to its shareholders for their approval.

Environmental groups are suing the Port of Long Beach and the American Trucking Associations, claiming a settlement involving the port’s clean trucks program is illegal and should be thrown out.

Federal regulators will start hearings around the country this month on plans to rewrite controversial hours-of-service rules for truck drivers.