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Whatever the outcome of the rail reform bill being drafted in the Senate, it is unlikely to strip railroads of their limited antitrust immunity, according to a key Republican senator.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will hold webinars on its Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010 initiative Dec. 3 and Dec. 10, at 3:30 p.m. EST.

During her Senate confirmation hearing, then-nominee Anne S. Ferro heard an earful about the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s record enforcing truck safety rules.

Intermodal marketing companies, middleman firms that arrange either all-highway or combined rail-truck shipments for clients such as factories or retail stores, used trains for a greater share of thei

Despite all the talk that weak intermodal volumes this year meant there was not really a normal “peak,” the major industry group that tracks shipments says traffic actually rose this fall

Shippers and carriers expect there will be sufficient capacity in the domestic transportation system to handle the modest growth in traffic that will occur in the coming year, but eventually there wil

Smaller logistics operators and freight brokers outperformed their larger counterparts in the third quarter, but a less-than-robust recovery is squeezing profit margins at all 3PLs, said the Transport

Average truckload rates fell 9.4 percent in the third quarter despite sharp cuts in capacity compared to last year, carrier Covenant Transport said in a securities filing.

Small North American railroads picked up more tankcar loads of chemicals last week than at the end of October and enjoyed a sizable gain in coal loadings, for a gain in overall traffic in the latest R

Kenan Advantage Group, the nation’s largest bulk over-the-road fuel transporter, is expanding its territory and business in the Pacific Northwest by acquiring the assets of fuel hauler Reinhard

The city of Los Angeles has spent more than $1 million in lobbying and litigation to defend the port’s clean truck concession requirements, according to a Southern California attorney.

Total intermodal volume in the United States and Canada during the third quarter fell 16.4 percent compared with the same period last year, to 2,995,043 units, the Intermodal Association of North Amer

Bulk railcar loadings slipped while intermodal traffic picked up in the latest week for major railroads operating in the United States.

Freight railcar and barge builder Greenbrier posted a $6.7 million profit in the June-August period that was its fiscal fourth quarter, for its best result of the past year even though net income was

The output of the freight transportation industry declined 0.5 percent in September from August, blunting a three-month long recovery, according to a report Thursday from the U.S.

Reporting quarterly earnings for the first time since it went public with a new stock offering last month, short line railroad operator RailAmerica posted a 21 percent increase in profit to $3.5 milli

FedEx says it expects no more audits from the Internal Revenue Service now that the agency for the second time dropped a look at potential penalties in the company’s classification of parcel division

West Coast port directors and executives from the two Class I western railroads meeting in China cited their region's deep-water ports and extensive ocean and intermodal rail services as reasons why t

Shares of trucking company Celadon Group began trading on the New York Stock Exchange Nov. 10, after the Indianapolis-based company shifted its listing from the Nasdaq stock market.

At a time when many trucking companies are hard up for cash, Werner Enterprises says it will deliver $90 million in special dividends to shareholders next month.

The rail reform bill being prepared for the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee is unlikely to strip railroads of their limited antitrust immunity, said a key Republican senator.

To fully equip a Bronx, N.Y., station as the company’s first all-hybrid facility, FedEx Express ordered 51 new hybrid vehicles from Azure Dynamics.

Old Dominion Freight Line will speed service through its Northwest gateway into Canada starting Nov. 9, connecting more than 65 Old Dominion service centers to Edmonton and Calgary, Canada.

National Refrigerated Trucking, a truckload and less-than-truckload refrigerated trucking company, opened a new LTL lane to Georgia and Florida.

The planned purchased of BNSF Railway by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway will not trigger a special compensation package for the railroad’s CEO, who plans to stay aboard and has offici

The average price of diesel fell for the first time in five weeks, dropping seven-tenths of a cent to $2.801 per gallon in the week ending Nov. 9, according to the U.S.

Before it completes its deal to buy out the rest of BNSF Railway, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway will divest its shares of Union Pacific Railroad and Norfolk Southern Railway.

The first two of GE Transportation’s PowerHaul locomotives have arrived in the United Kingdom for the Freightliner Group freight rail line, marking GE’s first entry to European markets wit

Rail industry officials are generating plenty of heat over potential proposals in Congress to reshape railroad regulation as they wait for a key Senate panel to offer the legislation.

With an audacious business deal, the most legendary investor in the United States and perhaps the most visionary leader of North American railroads could change the freight industry for a generation t

Trinity Industries has some wind at its back, pushing North America’s largest railcar maker and a major supplier of wind energy towers and barges into profitability.

YRC Worldwide is taking a giant leap over the chasm of bankruptcy, offering bondholders up to 95 percent of its common stock in return for wiping more than $500 million in debt from its books.

Asking for changes to the controversial approval of a key rail merger, Chicago suburbs and the Illinois Department of Transportation managed to get a split decision out of the Surface Transportation B

Pacer International is hoping its new agreement with the Union Pacific Railroad solidifies the company’s long-term business, but it may have a more immediate impact on the broader U.S.

The intermodal industry is carrying its share of recession-based pain, but it could make strong gains when the economic recovery gains momentum.

Kansas City Southern, smallest of the seven Class I railroads, saw net profit fall 47 percent from a year earlier to $25.8 million in the third quarter.

Bruce J. Carlton took charge at the National Industrial Transportation League just as the economy began its worst contraction in decades.

The head of BNSF Railway said he has shopped the planned acquisition by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway among U.S. policymakers in Washington, D.C., and gotten a favorable response.

The U.S. Senate confirmed Anne S.

Days after its deal to become a unit of Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway holding company, BNSF Railway said it forged a tentative multi-year labor contract agreement with its train engineers.