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A key measure of industrial shipping in the United States showed shipments declined 22 percent in March from the same month a year ago, suggesting retailers and manufacturers were retrenching still mo

Con-way Freight is spanning the Atlantic with express transport giant TNT in a bid to load more European freight into U.S. trucks.

New orders for manufactured durable goods increased in February for the first time in six months, according to a report from the U.S. Census Bureau on April 2.

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have each been collecting more than $200,000 a day in clean-trucks fees since Feb.18.

The union representing train engineers is flatly opposing a proposed law to strip the big freight rail lines of their limited antitrust immunity, and urging key lawmakers to meet with shippers and car

Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland is expected to sign a bill April 1 that would raise the state speed limit for trucks on state highways from 55 mph to 65 mph.

Representatives of large trucking companies and small independent operators are shifting into high gear in the battle over truck size and weight limits on Capitol Hill.

The Superior Court of Washington for King County ruled FedEx Ground pick up and delivery drivers are independent contractors and not legally full-time employees.

Corporate relocation expert Atlas World Group named two top executives following the retirement of former chairman Jim Stamm.

Partly to boost its cash levels, Canadian Pacific Railway said it plans to slash its joint ownership of the Detroit River Tunnel Partnership to just 16.5 percent from 50 percent now, while its pension

Canadian National Railway shifted four senior operations officials to new roles in running different parts of the railroad.

YRC Worldwide will fire 600 nonunion employees in the next several weeks as a result of its Yellow Transportation-Roadway integration and weak business volume brought on by the weak economy.

Canadian Pacific Railway is getting ready for the Red River flood to move north and possibly disrupt freight traffic there as it has in North Dakota.

It may be the oldest of the big U.S. freight lines, but Union Pacific Railroad this week pushed out an innovative Web site makeover that it says is part of a “brand refresh.”

Central Freight Lines is using software from Cheetah Freight to book more freight and strip out miles with fewer people.

The Transportation Security Administration needs to dig deeper to find out how protected the nation’s trucks are against a terrorist attack, according to the U.S.

Beginning May 1, MOL's Gator Guarantee will provide a service guarantee on the company's own vessel strings, the Pacific Southwest Express and Japan-American Shuttle.

Trade using surface transportation between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement partners Canada and Mexico took its steepest dive ever in January to the lowest monthly dollar

The average retail price of diesel fuel soared 13.1 cents last week to $2.221 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Lawyers representing the American Trucking Associations and the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach on April 27 will present oral arguments in the ports’ clean-truck case.

Cummins Turbo Technologies will consolidate its turbocharger operations in Charleston, S.C., from two facilities to one over the next 18 months.

Con-way’s less-than-truckload subsidiary Con-way Freight is accelerating transit times between Washington's Tri-Cities area and eastern Idaho to support local farms during the region's peak plan

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Rates for truckload services will fall about 4 percent this year as U.S. shippers seek to lock low spot market pricing into long-term contracts, a transportation industry analyst said.

The Department of Transportation should have legislation drafted to allow Mexican trucks to operate in the United States by the time President Obama visits Mexico on April 16 and 17, according to a de

London -- Deutsche Bahn, Europe's biggest rail cargo carrier, reported higher earnings and revenue in 2008 compared with a year ago, even as freight traffic collapsed in the fourth quarter.

Less-than-truckload carriers are seeing demand leave the market faster than they can withdraw capacity, and they are trying to catch up.

Trucking companies and the shippers relying on them could see fuel costs take another hit — fired from the bow of the maritime industry.

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While carriers and shippers see a transportation landscape littered with empty trailers, shuttered carrier offices, parked trucks and idled ships, freight brokers see opportunities.

When President Obama reached into the labor ranks to choose the next chief of the Federal Railroad Administration, he handed the job of top rail safety regulator to someone who has spent years pursuin

Transportation labor applauded President Obama’s choice of Randy Babbitt, former chief of the Air Line Pilots Association, to be the next Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration.

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Old Dominion Freight Line doubled its capacity in South Bend, Ind. with its relocation to a 55-door less-than-truckload terminal five miles north of its current facility.

Mid-States Express, a major player in the Midwestern regional less-than-truckload market, was forced to shut down yesterday after their financing was cut off, according to a source at one of the carri

A key rail customers’ lobby group is urging Congress to sharply expand the size of the Surface Transportation Board, to give the agency the muscle to regulate freight railroads more forcefully a

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Karen J. Rae takes office March 30 as deputy administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration, the first appointee by President Obama to move into the agency.

Small trucking companies are calling on the Obama Administration to suspend plans to establish another cross-border trucking program with Mexico until Mexico meets U.S.

A key index of short line railroad traffic hit its worst percentage drop of 2009, falling 27.88 percent in the week ending March 21.