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BNSF Railway says the economic development work it did last year, to build up businesses that could feed into its rail network, helped generate about $4 billion worth of investments and over 4,000 new

Southeastern Freightways, a major player in regional less-than-truckload (LTL) hauling, is responding to shipper demand for more full truckload transportation as customers look to save money in the we

Traffic from short line railroads is running dramatically behind last year’s pace in the RMI RailConnect index.

Union Pacific Railroad is asking federal regulators to help it fend off certain new long-haul chlorine shipment requests, in cases where receiving customers could get the supplies delivered by pipelin

Kansas City Southern named Mary Stadler senior vice president and chief accounting officer. Stadler will report to KCS executive vice president and chief financial officer Michael W. Upchurch.

It took more than five years, but Yellow Transportation and Roadway are finally one company.

Trade between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement partners, Canada and Mexico, is declining rapidly as the recession deepens.

A steep drop in heavy truck orders could be an early warning sign for shippers enjoying unprecedented pricing power and a glimmer of hope for carriers forced to slash rates to keep freight in their tr

Strong net revenue margins at Landstar are helping offset significant revenue declines at the non-asset based truckload operator, according to investment banker Stifel Nicolaus.

The unpopular clean-truck fees that the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach began collecting two weeks ago could be ended within a year if motor carriers continue to finance the purchase of environmen

BNSF Railway shed rail 140 more of its rail network employees, putting 2 percent of its mechanical workforce on the types of indefinite layoffs that railroads call furloughs.

Residents of American cities can breath easier, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

The atmosphere surrounding the trucking and railroad debate over truck size and weight limits is more frigid than ever, and shippers claim they’re stuck in the middle.

When the Surface Transportation Board hit BNSF Railway with its largest-ever penalty for overcharging a utility customer, the smackdown could be heard all across the country.

Trinity Industries, the largest North American bui

Struggling YRC Worldwide got a breather from its bankers, but its customers and Wall Street are keeping close watch on the carrier as trucking capacity and the rates shippers pay hinge on the trucking

Mullen Group Income Fund earned a profit of $7.1 m

Bulk tank truck carrier Quality Distribution poste

Officials from Class I and short line railroads ar

Montana says it plans to work at the federal level

The federal government should eliminate a rule that forces some truck drivers to undergo duplicate, costly security checks, the Small Business Administration said Feb. 27.

Construction is underway on Alabama State Port Aut

Nebraska's Supreme Court dealt a setback to BNSF R

The collapse of container traffic at the nation's

Trucks hauled more freight in January than in Dece

Kansas City Southern Railway plans to re-open a long-closed 90-mile link southwest of Houston before July.

A further weakening in freight demand portends falling freight rates through the second quarter, according to a mid-February report by freight forecaster FTR Associates.

Senate Democrats once again are trying to kill the Department of Transportation's crossborder trucking pilot project with Mexico.

Pacer International appointed Robert J. Grassi to the board of directors effective March 1.

In his first address to a joint session of Congress, President Obama invoked one of the most dramatic rail construction efforts in U.S.

"The bottom continues to be pushed out," said transportation equipment forecaster FTR Associates as it cut its outlook for North American railcar deliveries in 2009.

Rail equipment supplier Wabtec's fourth quarter profit rose 8 percent from a year earlier even though "demand softened dramatically in certain segments of the global freight rail market," its presiden

NEW YORK -- The deregulation of the U.S. trucking industry by the 1980 ICC Termination Act continues

When it comes to taking it on the chin from the railroads over the fight for government funding, the trucking industry is apparently mad as hell and they're not going to take it anymore.

The deregulation of the U.S.

Private investment firm Centerbridge Partners completed its purchase of Greatwide Logistics Service in a restructuring that's expected to reduce the debt of the $1 billion logistics company by $478 mi

Wal-Mart is revamping the hiring practices in its logistics division as part of a $17 million settlement of a racial discrimination class-action lawsuit.

Across North America, railcar and intermodal container builders are slashing costs to guard their cash until orders begin to strengthen again.

The CEO of one of the largest U.S. transportation companies opposes replacing the gas tax with a vehicle mileage tax, claiming it would be unfair to many motorists.

The retail price of diesel fell 5.6 cents last week to a national average of $2.13 per gallon, accor