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A bipartisan resolution in the Illinois state senate is pivoting off a controversial rail merger outside Chicago, as it asks President Obama to name a community-minded freight specialist to fill a fed

The impact of the economy had a multiplied effect on non-asset based transportation services company AutoInfo in the first quarter.

The American Trucking Associations has challenged the April 28 decision by the U.S.

YRC Worldwide’s lenders waived a $45 million second quarter earnings requirement in a move one Wall Street analyst says is evidence banks aren’t interested in shutting down the troubled ca

The National Infrastructure Bank proposed by President Obama will likely have many twists and turns on its journey toward a new way to fund infrastructure projects.

There's a growing belief that action must be taken on size and weight limits for trucks on highways, but don't mistake that for any sort of agreement on the direction of truck limitations.

The twin troubles of overcapacity and weak demand forcing motor carriers to readjust operations could lead to long-term changes in the markets that supply their equipment.

Pacer International's shift from a $13 million profit in the first quarter to a $177 million loss this year is a strong sign the intermodal landscape itself has shifted.

Cutting transportation costs without sacrificing service or losing customers is difficult enough when times are good.

Transportation giant UPS said it’s studying the issue of federal bailouts for financially ailing trucking companies but wouldn’t comment directly on competitor YRC Worldwide’s reques

U.S. industrial output fell 0.5 percent in April from March, leaving it 12.5 percent below April 2008, the Federal Reserve said.

YRC is seeking $1 billion from the federal government for relief from its pension obligations in an unprecedented move as it struggles to keep operating under heavy pressure from its lenders.

Against a backdrop of falling profits, plunging traffic and rising rail layoffs, Norfolk Southern Railway’s chairman, president and CEO tried to reassure shareholders at the company’s annu

Trucking industry leader YRC Worldwide’s Chairman and CEO Bill Zollars said the company will seek $1 billion in federal bailout funds to ease pressure from its pension obligations.

The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association is suing the Minnesota State Patrol for violating truck drivers’ rights in placing them out of service for fatigue.

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Democratic leaders on the Senate Commerce Committee are calling for what might be called a shift away from highway freight transportation by 2020.

Profit at Express-1 Expedited Solutions fell 99 percent to $5,000 in the first quarter as a result of falling surcharge revenue and excess capacity.

Jim Ritchie, CEO of YRC Logistics, will leave the company at the end of May.

The massive Southern California international trade economy will decline further in 2009 before registering a modest gain next year, according to a report released by the Los Angeles County Economic D

Canadian National Railway vowed to cut the number of long delays at road crossings caused by train operations over its newly acquired Chicago-area short line, and did just that.

YRC Worldwide warned it may not reach its second quarter earnings requirement as the fragile financial standing at the nation’s largest heavy-freight trucking company seems to be getting shakier

A federal forecast for weak grain output this year could push up commodity prices and spur farmers and grain elevators to release more from their stockpiles to put into railcars for shipment to market

Used truck pricing is still down “double digits” year-over-year with no sign of improving due to overcapacity in the truckload market, according to a Wall Street analyst.

Truck maker Freightliner and drive train manufacturer Eaton are preparing an electric hybrid delivery truck for the propane gas market.

The recession dragged intermodal shipping volume down 16.3 percent in the first quarter, the largest drop ever recorded by the Intermodal Association of North America.

GE Transportation plans to build a $100 million factory to make high-power batteries that it says are a key to putting hybrid-drive power systems into heavy freight locomotives, harbor tug boats and m

CSX Transportation and a major chemical shipper that has led the charge against rail rate increases, E.I.

Diesel prices jumped jumped 3.1 cents last week to $2.216 per gallon, the first increase after three straight weeks of declines, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Electro-Motive Diesel, one of the two U.S. builders of big line-haul locomotives for the rail freight industry, tapped Michael P.

Norfolk Southern last week idled most operations at a Columbus, Ohio facility and will lay off 86 workers there in July.

Tariffs Mexico imposed on select U.S. products in response to the elimination of a cross-border trucking program are having little discernable impact on cross-border trade — or trucking.

Even with a first-quarter loss on its books and its large Mexico operations in a swine flu hot zone, Kansas City Southern could be in a good spot.

After losing freight to competitors for two consecutive quarters, YRC Worldwide is rolling out a customer incentive package in an attempt to rebuild freight flows and density in its struggling long-ha

Shippers bracing for a dramatic surge in trucking rates can take a deep breath — evidence is stacking up that loose capacity and rock-bottom prices will be around for a while.

Large North American railroads are pushing their base pricing steadily higher, even with the worst freight market in decades.

While much of the world was showing growing alarm over a possible swine flu pandemic and business scrambled to contain the impact, Dan Sanker, CEO of logistics provider CaseStack, pulled out his plans

The U.S. trucking industry shed more than 16,000 jobs in April, the Labor Department said, as part of a 38,000 job loss in the transportation and warehousing sector.

As a measure of how tough the freight rail market is these days, short lines had their best week of 2009 in hauling basic stone and related materials used in heavy construction, yet that category was