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President Obama formally tendered the nominations of Joseph C. Szabo as administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration, and Linda A. Puchala to serve on the National Mediation Board.

The Indianapolis-based regional Indiana Rail Road wants the Surface Transportation Board quickly to approve its plan to build a 5.2-mile link to a large new coal mine.

OD Global and Hanjin Shipping are partnering in a less-than container load service from China to the United States to speed international transit times.

Major freight railroads got another week of less-bad news, as the year-over-year carload decline was the mildest in the past four weeks.

The Port of Los Angeles is launching an incentive program to encourage ocean carriers to move more containers by rail into the port.

The American Trucking Associations is accusing the City of Los Angeles of misleading the public about ATA’s stance on the Port of Los Angeles clean-trucks program as a way for the port to divert

Truck tonnage increased 1.7 percent in February from January based on the American Trucking Associations’ monthly survey of approximately 37,000 members.

The federal government is providing millions of dollars in stimulus funding for transportation projects that create jobs and reduce pollution, but applicants must move quickly in order to qualify for

The recession still has a tight grip on the trucking industry, but some truckload carriers may finally be seeing the first signs of recovery, an industry consultant says.

As chair of the full Environment and Public Works Committee, Senator Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., opened a hearing March 25 on the need for transportation investment in relation to the next highway, trans

The international president of the largest rail labor organization, the United Transportation Union, is calling for railroads and customers to settle their fight over rail industry regulation, and rea

Norfolk Southern Railway said Mark D. Manion will be chief operating officer of its parent corporation as of April 1, with the March 31 retirement of Stephen C.

FedEx is holding billions of dollars worth of business – and jobs – over the heads of Congress and the Obama administration by conditioning future aircraft purchases on keeping its parcel

The Highway Trust Fund is likely to run dry this summer unless the president and Congress provide an infusion of money, according to the president of the American Association of State Highway and Tran

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, a major ratings agency for corporate debt, lowered its long-term corporate credit rating for Kansas City Southern to “B&r

AutoInfo’s profits increased 38 percent to $2.2 million on revenue of $180.2 million in 2008 despite declining revenue in the fourth quarter due to the weakening economy.

The head of the Port of Los Angeles said Tuesday the port’s clean-trucks program is continuing without interruption despite an appeals court ruling against controversial parts of the program.

This recession could lead to fundamental change in trucking comparable to the upheaval that followed motor carrier deregulation in 1980, says Transport Capital Partners, a Nashville, Tenn.-based finan

Kansas City Southern is issuing more debt for its Mexican operations and may issue stock for its U.S.-based company, to boost liquidity as traffic and revenue fall.

Hub Group, one of the leading intermodal service middleman firms and a truck brokerage provider, said traffic and pricing have weakened its earnings outlook for the near term.

Transportation Secretary Raymond LaHood, looking to quiet a furor over a cross-border trucking program that threatens to grow into a full trade war, said Tuesday he plans to create a new version of th

London -- DSV, Scandinavia's biggest trucking and logistics company, reported 2008 net profit gained 15 percent from a year ago on strong growth in ocean and air freight volumes and a one off gain on

Trucking companies hauling steel coil in Alabama must use specially certified drivers or face fines of up to $10,000. Uncertified drivers could face fines of up to $1,000 and a year in jail.

The Port of Seattle is postponing the acquisition of the BNSF Eastside Rail Corridor because of the continuing difficulty of raising capital in the nation's bond markets.

The average cost of a gallon of diesel went up for the first time since mid-January as crude oil futures surged past $50 per barrel for the first time since November.

Standard & Poor’s assigned one of its highest investment grades on UPS debt as a result of its stable cash flow and strong position in ground parcel delivery market.

Talks between railcar manufacturer Greenbrier and General Electric’s car leasing unit to curb or delay a huge order “are currently stalled,” said Greenbrier President and CEO William

The deadline for all truck drivers entering terminals in the Port of New York and New Jersey to have TWIC cards is Monday, March 23, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said in an urgent rem

The largest long-term concern for the domestic trucking industry for many years, at least up to last year, was a looming shortage of qualified drivers. No one is talking about that anymore.

A fight between railroads and chlorine shippers is turning caustic.

Congress finally killed a program allowing U.S.

A new short line railroad that will speed intermodal service in the New England-New York corridor will start rolling as early as May after winning approval from federal regulators.

Federal officials rushing to roll out the Transportation Worker Identification Credential are getting some help from an unexpected quarter — the recession.

The Port of Long Beach plans to make its clean-truck and motor carrier subsidy programs more attractive through an incentive package that the Board of Harbor Commissioners will be asked to consider at

New stimulus spending by the Canadian federal government is hurrying along the upgrading of the Canadian half of the Blue Water Bridge, the second busiest Canada-United States commercial border crossi

In a major victory for the harbor trucking industry, the U.S.

OD Global, a division of less-than-truckload carrier Old Dominion Freight Line, expanded its trade management service to incorporate new Importer Security Filing requirements, known as U.S.

YRC Worldwide regional less-than-truckload subsidiary USF Holland will close 11 terminals, representing 15 percent of Holland's network, by April 6 to cope with weak freight demand throughout its syst

The rush by shippers away from trucking heavyweight YRC Worldwide in response to the company’s fragile financial and operating position – both real and perceived – has shifted into r