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The retail price of diesel fuel edged up 2.7 cents last week to $2.652 per gallon, the highest price since Nov. 24, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

The short line operator formerly known as Arizona Railroad Group is no more.

CSX Transportation and state officials broke ground for an intermodal terminal at North Baltimore, Ohio, A spokesman said it will be the “centerpiece” facility for the big eastern-U.S.

Max Pietsch has a simple formula for expedited trucking companies to survive the recession.

Chances are you’re pinching pennies these days. You’ve whittled all the fat out of your transportation budget and are running lean and mean.

If North American intermodal shipping were only a domestic business, there would be plenty of reason to say things are bottoming out.

In troubled financial times, it’s increasingly important to manage your business effectively.

For many trucking companies, the business outlook for the rest of 2009 is pretty bleak.

The state of the trucking industry in mid-2009 is, to put it mildly, chaotic.

The fate of the nation’s largest trucking company lies in the hands of its bankers — and customers.

Federal regulation of freight railroads may be headed for a more shipper-friendly overhaul, but Congress broke for its long recess with a reform bill still to be written and after a key regulatory app

The federal government gave plans at Eaton to build plug-in hybrid trucks and utility vehicles a $45.4 million charge with grant money from the stimulus package.

Overall rail traffic declined from a week earlier at North American short lines tracked in the RMI RailConnect index, but small railroads recorded some of the strongest loadings in months for several

Stimulus money is rolling out of the Department of Transportation at ever-increasing amounts to pay for initial infrastructure projects, as DOT spending jumped by $347 million in the latest week.

Daniel R. Elliott was sworn in as chairman of the Surface Transportation Board that regulates rail-shipper economic issues, the agency has confirmed.

Northeastern regional LTL carrier New England Motor Freight will reach deep into Canada through a partnership with Toronto-based Manitoulin Transport.

One of the top North American short line companies is branching out to offer freight shippers a range of specialty services to handle their yard operations on a contract basis, from railcar switching

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Kansas City Southern, operator of the smallest U.S. Class I railroad and a rail unit in Mexico about the same size, said Scott E.

Norfolk Southern Railway added Greencastle, Pa., to its expanding list of planned intermodal terminals along a major interstate rail corridor it wants to develop, with actual construction in most case

Freight transportation in the United States stayed stuck in the doldrums in June, stalled at its lowest level since 1997, according to a report from the U.S.

Rail industry supplier National Railway Equipment booked 14 orders for new N-ViroMotive genset locomotives, with much of that business fueled by federal stimulus money and state aid.

The second of two California men who used information gleaned from federal Web sites to con trucking companies and brokers out of $2.7 million was sent to prison Aug. 10.

Shipments of rail-truck intermodal cargoes across the United States and Canada are showing more signs of life, but are swamped by continued sharp declines for international shipments that are mainly o

In offering to sell $300 million in stock and become a public company again for the first time in over two years, short line holding company RailAmerica said it is making money despite a sharp drop in

Celadon Group returned to profitability — barely — in the quarter ending June 30.

Demand for new heavy- and medium-duty trucks is expected to be down 45 percent for the full year and remain weak through the first half of 2010, ACT Research said in its latest North American Commerci

Daniel R. Elliott is expected to take his oath this week to join the three-person Surface Transportation Board and become its chairman, industry and Washington sources said.

The Mississippi Export Railroad will use its $740,000 U.S. Department of Agriculture loan to add a 40,000-square-foot bulk storage warehouse to its Moss Point facility.

Canadian National Railway is still grappling with mechanical breakdowns and operational snags on its short line tracks outside Chicago, as it tries to sort out the problems causing its trains to block

The average price of a gallon of diesel fuel jumped 7.5 cents last week to $2.625 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

The United States is commited to resolving a festering cross-border trucking dispute with Mexico, President Barack Obama told Mexican President Felipe Calderón at the North American Leaders' Su

2009 hasn’t worked OUT quite like Walter Schulze-Freyberg envisioned.

Hundreds of millions of dollars have been wiped from YRC Worldwide’s books as a severe decline in shipping digs the financial hole for the country’s largest less-th

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Cross-border trucking with Mexico was on the agenda in meetings between President Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderón Aug. 8 and 9.

YRC Worldwide will sell $81 million in property to NorthAmerican Terminals Management, leasing back certain facilities, the company said Aug. 7.

Teamsters at two of YRC Worldwide's largest subsidiaries approved wage and benefit concessions that will provide immediate economic relief for the nation's largest less-than-truckload operator.