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Profit at rail equipment maker FreightCar America fell 89 percent from a year earlier to $1.1 million in the July-September period as sales fell 77 percent to $55 million.

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New loadings of bulk railcar traffic declined mildly in the final week of October at major U.S.

Credit risk evaluator Fitch Ratings warned it may cut Berkshire Hathaway’s debt ratings over its $26 billion buyout of BNSF Railway.

The largest customer for railcar builder American Railcar Industries is now bankrupt, but ARI says it believes the equipment finance operations of CIT Group will continue as normal while the fleet own

The United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware approved Nov. 3 the sale of time definite regional carrier Velocity Express to private investor Comvest Investment Partners.

Freight railcar builder American Railcar Industries saw third-quarter profit fall 85 percent from a year earlier to $1.1 million, as sales dropped 64 percent to nearly $79 million.

Freight traffic slid 2.2 percent in the latest week at small North American railroads measured by the RMI RailConnect index.

Less-than-truckload carrier Con-way says it moved toward "more aggressive" price discounting in the third quarter than it normally uses and started hiring back workers to cope with tonnage g

A purchase of U.S. freight rail giant BNSF Railway by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway could lead Standard & Poor's Ratings Services to upgrade its assessment of BNSF debt.

Heavy truck sales surged in October, rising 117 percent year-over-year and 104 percent from September, as freight volumes showed signs of improving and carriers began a last-minute round of truck purc

A broad group of retailers and other shippers called on the mayors of New York and Newark, N.J., to withdraw their support for changes in federal law that would allow local regulators to bar independe

After losing $143.2 million in the second quarter, Quality returned to profit in the third quarter and improved upon last year’s third quarter profit.

Freight volume in trucking’s spot market rose 10 percent in October, said TransCore, which reported the first year-over-year increase this year in the TransCore Freight Index.

The National Mediation Board proposed an amendment to its Railway Labor Act rules to provide that, in representation disputes, a majority of valid ballots cast will determine the craft or class repres

Pacer International, seeking to settle a contracting issue central to the company’s intermodal business, announced Tuesday it reached a multi-year agreement with Union Pacific Railroad for new r

Con-way profit fell by two-thirds in the third quarter from $40.5 million a year ago to $13.5 million in the three months ending Sept. 30.

International short line operator Genesee & Wyoming earned a profit of $21.7 million in the third quarter, just 2 percent higher than in the same period a year ago.

The planned purchase of BNSF Railway by Berkshire Hathaway underscores the value of railroads generally, according to Wall Street analysts.

The Clorox Co. says it will stop using chlorine in its signature bleach product because of growing concerns over the safety and oversight of transporting the product on railroads.

YRC Worldwide stock tanked on Wall Street this week as the company launched a debt-for-equity exchange one analyst compared to a “controlled bankruptcy.”

Norfolk Southern Railway and Pennsylvania’s state government will spend $11 million to expand track and parking in the railroad’s Philadelphia Navy Yard intermodal facility.

William J. Logue, a veteran FedEx Express executive, will become president of FedEx Freight, the express giant’s $4.6 billion trucking arm, Dec. 1.

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway announced Tuesday it will buy the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad in a transaction worth an estimated $34 billion.

The prices of the kinds of commodities that manufacturers around the world use to make industrial products hit a record high in the week at the end of October, according to the Industrial price Index

The retail price of diesel rose seven-tenths of a cent last week, the fourth straight week of increases in the national average, according to the U.S.

YRC Worldwide will launch a debt-for-equity exchange offer this week that could wipe more than $500 million in debt from the financially-troubled trucker's books.

An Internal Revenue Service decision to reverse a previous assessment that FedEx had misclassified some package delivery drivers marks a strong victory for the carrier and its use of independent contr

DSV, Scandinavia’s biggest trucking and logistics company, reported a steep decline in third quarter earnings but said it gained market share in its key ocean, air and land transport sectors.

The board of YRC Worldwide named Chief Operating Officer Timothy A. Wicks president of the trucking giant last week, a vote of confidence in Wick's handling of the company's financial crisis.

A multi-year program to realign Chicago’s commuter and freight rail system issued its largest contract to date, a $10.4 million project that will double the rail capacity through the Stockyards

Stronger international lift and a pickup in next-day shipments took some of the sting out of the recession for UPS in the third quarter.

The country may be crawling out of the worst recession in decades, and transportation companies along with their customers may be reeling from slack demand and “unsustainable rates,” but you wouldn’t

The U.S. intermodal market remains tough, but two of the industry’s biggest service providers are finding ways to build on their strengths.

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Rules that govern how many hours a day truck drivers may spend behind the wheel may change again, perhaps before August 2011, as the federal agency that regulates motor carriers reconsiders whether tr

Operating without its own equipment on the road appears to make C.H. Robinson Worldwide a tough target for the economic downturn.

Transloading volumes at West Coast ports are down, but importers’ interest in transloading is up as companies look to take cost out of their supply chains.

YRC Worldwide says it is gaining new customers even as it continues to lose some shippers, leading to "stabilization" of its customer base and improved yields, top company officials say.

YRC Worldwide’s regional carrier group reported a $293,000 profit, its first since the second quarter of 2008, largely driven by a turnaround at former USF regional carrier Holland, said YRC Wor