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The Intermodal Association of North America has named industry leaders Stephen Branscum of BNSF Railway and David Howland of Schneider National as chairman and vice chairman for 2010.

Buffeted by a major winter storm that socked much of the Appalachian coal mining region in the week of Christmas, major U.S.

Chicago’s multi-layered plan to revamp rail connections in the city and region just checked its $13.1 million McCook Connection off its list, improving links between several freight carriers and

With their striking orange-on-black color scheme, Schneider Regional trucks are the reverse image of Schneider National’s familiar black-on-orange units.

If drayage operators had any question that polluting trucks have no future in California, clean-trucks plans implemented at the port and state levels at the start of the new year should dispel a

It took all of 2009 to get a landmark rail regulatory overhaul bill through the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee.

Ongoing battles over proposed cap-and-trade legislation and efforts by ports to gain more control over harbor trucking will carry over into 2010.

Trucking executives had a handy source of confetti New Year’s Eve: all those less-than-truckload contracts they shredded in a fourth-quarter price war.

The employees of Arrow Trucking are taking the company to court over its sudden shutdown Dec. 23, charging the closure violated federal labor law.

Federal regulators, trying to bring order to the chaotic shutdown of Arrow Trucking, are ordering the company’s owners to bring Arrow’s trucks off the roads and under control.

Carlen Transport, the largest flatbed truck operator in Maine, ceased operations this week, saying high costs and weak demand from the housing and construction made it impossible to keep the company r

Trinity Industries, spreading out beyond the troubled rail equipment market, bought highway construction products manufacturer for about $61 million in cash, the railcar maker said Thursday.

YRC Worldwide said Thursday it had won the critical support from bondholders the trucking giant needed to rebuild its finances and stave off bankruptcy.

YRC Worldwide said Wednesday the trucking company “will be open for business as usual on Monday” despite its unresolved bid for a financial overhaul and one investment analyst’s sugg

The Lamberts Point Coal Terminal, the big Virginia coastal site where Norfolk Southern Railway trains deliver Appalachian coal that can be loaded onto ships for export, should have the first of its tw

The Teamsters Union planned to hold an unusual picketing action outside the offices of Brigade Capital Management in New York to urge the hedge fund to cooperate with YRC Worldwide in its effort to re

The American Trucking Associations’ Truck Tonnage Index fell 3.5 percent compared with a year ago in November, which the ATA called an improvement after 12 months of steeper declines.

Container Corp. of India, the state-owned intermodal logistics provider, will increase its freight charges by about 6 percent, effective Jan. 8, 2010.

YRC Worldwide extended its debt-for-equity swap to the eve of a crucial debt payment deadline on Wednesday as the trucking giant and its unionized drivers raised the pressure on bondholders to accept

Norfolk Southern Railway is telling customers it is keeping in place a “force majeure” declaration for coal deliveries, after absorbing damage to its big ocean terminal for coal loadings o

The U.S. lines of the seven Class I freight railroads cut 1,923 jobs in the month to mid-November, leaving their combined workforce at a new low of 147,097.

Backers of Arrow Trucking’s idled equipment provided a hotline this week for the company’s shippers as the failed flatbed operator revealed it would have to surmount massive financial hurd

Diesel prices edged up for the first time in two months as the national average on Monday climbed six-tenths of a cent to $2.732 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

YRC Worldwide extended its crucial debt-for-equity swap offer for a fourth time on Wednesday after the financially ailing trucking giant received little new support for an exchange aimed at helping th

Flatbed carrier Arrow Trucking suspended operations this week, stranding hundreds of drivers around the country on Christmas Eve as the company reportedly tries to get new financing to resume business

YRC Worldwide, hours from falling short of bondholder approval for a critical debt-for-equity swap, extended the offer's deadline for a third time on Wednesday, giving the company until

The Teamsters union wants the U.S.

Diesel fuel prices fell for the seventh straight week across the United States in the week ending Dec. 21, with the national average price sliding 2.2 cents, the U.S.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is delaying for six months the deadline for submission of driver vehicle inspection reports under the agency’s new roadability regulations for intermoda

FreightCar America named former senior executive Edward Whalen its new president and CEO after Christian Ragot left the company this week under what the railcar manufacturer said was mutual consent.

Regional trucker Saia, seeking to restructure debt obligations amid falling demand and high costs, said Tuesday it will sell 2.3 million shares to institutional investors as part of a plan to make imp

Navistar International, the Warrenville, Ill.-based truck and engine manufacturer, on Monday reported fiscal fourth-quarter net profit of $86 million, reversing a $343 million net loss in the same qua

The truckload carrier owners of Transplace sold the third-party logistics and technology operator to a New York-based private equity firm, the companies announced Tuesday, saying the deal will allow n

YRC Worldwide won important approvals from lenders and the Securities and Exchange Commission for the debt-for-equity swap the trucking giant needs to avoid filing for bankruptcy protection.

The Port of Seattle will pay BNSF Railway some $81 million for a 42-mile section of track northeast of the port, ending a long negotiation the port says will keep the line open to freight service.

Teamsters officials, trying to save carhauling work in the troubled automobile manufacturing jobs, say General Motors agreed to protect existing jobs at the company and remains in talks with the union

States with the two largest seaports ranked in the top five among states with the most-congested urban interstate highways, according to a Reason Foundation report.

Roadrunner Transportation Services expects to launch its initial public stock offering now that the economy is more stable and the trucking company has withstood the downturn in demand.

While many trucking companies are cutting prices to attract customers, Roadrunner Transportation Services is acquiring them.

Kraft Foods is cutting carbon dioxide where the rubber meets the road, shaking 50 million truck miles out of its global distribution operations and taking 50,000 trucks off highways since 2005, elimin