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Canadian Pacific Railway, looking to capitalize on the regulatory stability and supply chain collaboration Canada has developed, intends to help the Port of Vancouver increase its share of the lucrati

The House of Representatives broke into a sharp fight over extending federal highway program spending by three months, as Republican leaders tried to force backers to pledge they would take a motor fu

The chairman of a key Senate subcommittee today told trucking industry official Anne S.

Norfolk Southern Railway got two major rail routes back in service after days of flood closures this week around Atlanta, but it will be a while before traffic is back to normal.

Estes Express Lines is picking up the pace of competition by slicing a day from transit times for freight moving from 26 terminals in its less-than-truckload network.

RailAmerica, the large owner of small railroads that is now owned entirely by Fortress Investment Group, increased the amount of its planned offering of public shares to $450 million from an earlier $

The New York Times joined labor and highway safety interests opposed to the nomination of state trucking association leader Anne S.

Kenny Nova joined Aljex Software as vice president, corporate development.

FreightCar America earned a $7 million profit in the second quarter, with revenue as it earlier indicated at $104 million, the railcar manufacturer said in its delayed financial report after completin

Douglas G. Duncan, the executive who has led FedEx Freight from its inception, will retire next February, the company announced.

Retail diesel was selling for an average of $2.622 per gallon across the country last week, down 1.2 cents according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Train traffic is rising on the Chicago-area short line that Canadian National Railway absorbed this year, but CN told regulators it further reduced long train-caused delays at roadway crossings in Aug

The seven largest railroads operating in the United States boosted their overall train and engine crews from mid-July to mid-August, but job cuts elsewhere took employment down from a month earlier.

Freight industry officials now confirm what the statistics already show: The worst freight downturn in decades apparently bottomed out months ago. But there’s not a lot of celebrating over that.

In a windy cornfield of north-central Iowa, the nation’s largest wind tower staging facility is about to get a lot bigger, building on what has been a fast-growing busine

In its race to avoid bankruptcy, YRC Worldwide is jumping hurdles like a horse running a steeplechase.

Watco Transportation, which bills itself as the leading private U.S.

In a Labor Day-shortened loading week that took overall short line traffic to its lowest level since the July 4 holiday, short lines surveyed by RMI still reported gains in some cargoes that show dema

Rail equipment manufacturer FreightCar America said it completed an accounting review that goes back to 2007, and is restating 2008 profit to more than double what it first reported.

Truckload carrier Schneider National will close two fuel, maintenance and operations facilities in Seville, Ohio and Green Bay, Wis. on Nov. 17.

FedEx reported a $181 million profit Thursday for its fiscal quarter ending Aug.

The House Judiciary Committee passed an antitrust bill that railroads oppose, as it would put them under the same antitrust provisions faced by other industries, but any similar measure in the Senate

Same-day delivery and logistics provider Dynamex cut back operations and administrative staff and built its sales force to hang on to profits in its fourth fiscal quarter.

With Labor Day removing the first normal shipment day from the schedule of major U.S. railroads, railcar loadings and intermodal units last week were their lowest since early July.

The French government unveiled an $11.8 billion plan Sept. 16 to significantly increase rail's share of Europe's second largest transport market over the next 10 years.

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Railroad freight volumes are probably the single most important indicator of the economy’s health to billionaire investor Warren Buffett.

A growing number of Washington insiders say the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee is close to introducing the first reform of rail economic regulation in 30 years, but indicate all

Famed U.S. investor Warren Buffett thinks the economy has “plateaued” along a bottom after a sharp decline, with little sign of recovery.

Distribution centers and manufacturing plants in the Ohio Valley will soon have two new intermodal options for moving their cargo to and from Asia.

With the Sept.

As crude oil futures stabilized, retail diesel prices responded by falling for the second consecutive week.

The Teamsters union, already fighting legal and legislative battles to organize FedEx workers in the United States, said Monday it is launching a “large-scale campaign” to bring FedEx work

Congress must extend a crucial program due to expire in two weeks to fund highway and other transport projects around the nation, a freight stakeholders’ coalition said, but should also approve

Con-way Truckload launched a regional program to deliver shipments within less than 600 miles.

Motor carriers that want trucks out of their yards and off their books are starting to go where America sells practically anything: eBay.

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As more wind towers sprout on alternative energy farms around the United States, Union Pacific Railroad is taking a growing share of wind shipments away from trucks.

Canadian National Railway opened a $14 million automobile unloading facility at its MacMillan Yard in Toronto that more than doubles the railcar spots available.