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Union Pacific Railroad packed more unit trains of agricultural products in November than ever in its history, with 400 all-crop trains topping the previous high of 381 in October 2006.

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Cost is hardly the only factor for shippers considering outsourcing all or part of a private fleet.

One factor spurring fresh consideration of outsourcing private fleets to dedicated fleet operators is the proliferation of environmental regulations on trucks.

For years, when a trailer door closed at a private fleet, another opened in dedicated contract carriage.

Canadian National Railway and its locomotive engineers in the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference will send their wage and benefit contract impasse to binding arbitration after failing to negotiate an ac

Major U.S. railroads posted their highest new loadings of chemical cargoes in 2009 during the week ending Dec. 5, a signal of stirring industrial demand.

Congress on Friday pushed off until next year a measure authorizing the Federal Aviation Administration, giving up for a third year in a row on a plan the aviation industry has been waiiting

A truck driver strike that could have paralyzed European logistics networks was avoided when French truck drivers and employers reached a tentative agreement on a new contract Dec. 11.

Kraft Foods took 50 million truck miles out of its global distribution operations through a broad effort to overhaul shipping strategies and make its supply chain more efficient, the food giant said.&

With the global recession pummeling truck traffic, the California Air Resources Board will give motor carriers in the state more flexibility in complying with standards designed to reduce diesel pollu

Railroads and their customers are getting their first look at a long-awaited bill that would overhaul federal regulations governing shippers’ access to competitive service and how their disputes

YRC Worldwide Teamsters in Chicago again rejected wage and benefit cuts approved by the most of the unionized employees at the troubled less-than-truckload company.

YRC Worldwide extended the deadline for the trucking giant’s high-stakes debt-for-equity exchange offer for bondholders Wednesday after it failed to get enough support to put the plan into effec

Freight shipments declined for the second consecutive month in October, as measured by a 1.2 percent drop in the U.S.

The French government intervened in contract negotiations between truck drivers and their employers Dec.

The NASDAQ stock exchange gave YRC Worldwide a green light to issue millions of shares of new stock without first getting approval from its shareholders.

Dow Jones will drop YRC Worldwide from its index of transportation stocks as the country’s largest trucker faces a deadline today on a major measure aimed at stabilizing the company’s fina

Trucking bankruptcies are beginning to climb again, putting upward pressure on rates just as shippers prepare contracts for bidding in the first quarter of 2010.

Schneider National is expanding its regional truckload service into the Northeast, propelled by customer demand in a fourth quarter that is proving stronger than forecast.

FedEx scaled up its earnings projections sharply on Monday, saying it is seeing a steady increase in international express shipping demand and new strength in its domestic ground parcel service.

A decline of 3.3 cents in the average retail price of diesel over a five-week period sputtered a little lower in the week ending Dec. 7.

UPS Freight is ramping up operations in Canada, hiring a former YRC Reimer executive to lead its sales efforts.

The $26 billion buyout of BNSF Railway by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway investment firm cleared a key antitrust review process.

The U.S. Export-Import Bank is backing a sale of seven locomotives by Electro-Motive Diesel to Iron Ore Company of Canada, with a $10 million loan guarantee for commercial bank financing.

While other truckload carriers are still laying up capacity to adjust to lower demand during the recession, Con-way Truckload will shift capacity to double the number of trucks dedicated to short-haul

Canada last week achieved a critical milestone toward building the $3 billion Detroit River International Crossing.

While the economy’s collapse cut intermodal volumes and some rail lines focused on long-term corridor construction, Union Pacific Railroad went tunneling in the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Bankruptcy may be the end of the road for many trucking companies, but it’s becoming a route out of the recession for a few.

When Teamsters locomotive engineers launched a strike against Canadian National Railway on Nov.

The market for class 8 trucks is likely to slump at the end of the year and to slow further in 2010, said transportation analyst FTR Associates.

An Iowa short line railroad will receive a federal grant of nearly $7 million to rebuild a bridge torn away in June 2008 by the flooding Cedar River.

President Obama says large-scale transportation projects that are supposedly “shovel-ready” may not provide the quick boost for jobs needed in the halting American economic recovery.

All major transportation industries reduced their employment levels in November, in line with a still-weak recovery in freight shipping; however, warehousing added jobs.

FedEx will raise list prices for its ground parcel service an average 4.9 percent in 2010, matching the rate increase announced by competitor UPS.

Big U.S. railroads reached a new milestone even as the Thanksgiving holiday trimmed their work week, with bulk carloads showing the smallest decline so far this year from 2008 levels.

Rail equipment builder GE Transportation signed up Brazilian railway operator America Latina Logistica as a new customer, with an order to deliver 10 new locomotives to ALL this year.

Canadian National Railway was ramping its operations back up Dec.

YRC Worldwide is "very confident" it will complete a debt-to-equity swap that would wipe more than $500 million in debt from its books in return for 95 percent of the trucking operator's com

The Teamsters union is stepping up a fight with two of the nation’s largest automakers, claiming a plan by Chrysler and General Motors to shift shipments of new cars to non-union carriers is cos