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Truck tonnage declined in October, but it was the smallest drop in 2009, said the American Trucking Associations.

A Norfolk Southern freight train carrying sulfuric acid derailed early Sunday morning in Gilbert, S.C., the WLTX Web site reported Nov. 23.

In recent years, as domestic air cargo capacity dried up and freighter operators such as Kitty Hawk went belly up, the air cargo trucking sector went from strong to stronger.

Annual Christmas sales are always huge events for freight-hauling industries.

Swift Transportation chief Jerry Moyes, turning aside downbeat views of the transportation economy, said the truckload giant is seeing gains in shipping and improving balance between supply and demand

Trucking companies complain of too many tractor-trailers chasing too little freight, and carriers such as Swift Transportation, the nation’s third-largest truckload carrier, are scouring excess

Truckload carrier operations gained some momentum in the third quarter, thanks to a pickup in shipments and cuts in capacity.

For several years, the Surface Transportation Board has been confronted with issues surrounding merger and acquisition premiums paid in most of the recent major transactions involving railroads.

Even as President Obama unveiled plans to hold a “jobs summit” to help fight the nation’s 10 percent-plus unemployment rate, concern was festering over how his administration has app

Unhappy Chicago suburbs will get independent review of Canadian National Railway’s reports on the impact of the railroads's operations there, the Surface Transportation Board said Frid

A new study by the Federal Railroad Administration says Class I freight railoads boosted their fuel efficiency by 21.5 percent from 1990 to 2006, aided by adoption of more fuel-efficient locomotives a

Chicago’s package of construction projects to untangle a time-wasting spaghetti bowl of freight and passenger rail lines officially got a little smaller, but it remains a huge plan that is widel

Aided by grain loadings and increases in a number of other cargoes, small North American railroads picked up more shipments in the week ending Nov. 14 than in the previous week.

FedEx Ground, the small-package ground delivery unit of FedEx, this week opened a distribution facility in Medley, Fla.

Intermodal drayage specialist C&K Trucking, Chicago, acquired competitor Transportation Made Simple, expanding the size of its fleet by one third to approximately 600 trucks and adding muscle in s

A boost in several large cargoes, including a new 2009 peak for hauls of motor vehicles and equipment, lifted traffic at major U.S. railroads in the week ending Nov. 14.

The trucking industry is still mired in the recession and likely won’t pull out until some time next year, according to a widely accepted index of conditions in the market.

Montana is suing BNSF Railway over payments for a short line’s grain shipments, while BNSF is saying “our actions are legal” and that it is trying to offer the state’s shippers

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Rail carriers and their customers were encouraged by the brief peak shipping season this fall and anticipate modest growth in traffic in 2010.

The planned purchase of BNSF Railway by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway could cause a change in how the Surface Transportation Board calculates a key cost formula that helps it shape some ra

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters said no talks are under way with ABF Freight System that would result in concessions for its members.

The U.S. lines of the seven Class I railroads trimmed another 408 jobs as of mid-October from a month earlier, taking their total employment level down to a new low.

Trucking companies that are surviving in today's treacherous economic environment will be well positioned to prosper when traffic begins to rebound next year, according to carrier and shipper executiv

The National Labor Relations Board has tapped the last of $41 million in back pay owed to about 2,000 Michigan Teamsters, closing what may be the federal agency’s largest back pay order on recor

Not all motor carriers see cutting excess capacity as the best road to higher rates and improved profitability.

After Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway concludes his deal to buy up BNSF Railway, the investor says he will expect a “reasonable return” on any added capital investment he puts in

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The average retail price for a gallon of diesel fuel slipped 1.1 cents during the past week to $2.79, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Truckers moving hazardous materials between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, will have to take a long detour beginning Nov. 23.

Trucking company A. Duie Pyle is expanding its warehousing operations, opening a 243,000-square-foot warehouse in Westfield, Mass.

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Pennsylvania’s governor joined with Philadelphia’s mayor and the chairman, president and CEO of eastern-U.S.

Fatigue “is one of the most insidious issues in the transportation industry,” and more must be done to fight it, said Deborah A.P.

Investor Warren Buffett said his Berkshire Hathaway firm has moved quickly to shed its holdings in railroads other than BNSF Railway, which it plans to buy out for $26 billion.

Volvo Group will sell its half interest in a Chinese truck manufacturer six years after joining the partnership.

FedEx Freight, the less-than-truckload division of FedEx, agreed to a partnership with Vision Industries to test a tractor powered by the hydrogen/electric hybrid Tyrano drive train.

Deep discounting slashed less-than-truckload rates in the third quarter as carriers tried to knock the nation’s largest LTL trucker, YRC Worldwide, out of business. No one delivered that kn

Truck buyers put the pedal to the metal in October, sending Class 8 truck sales zooming 104 percent from September and 117 percent over October 2008.

Having redrawn its business model over the years, J.B. Hunt Transport Services now appears intent on redrawing the nation’s intermodal map.