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Higher freight demand fails to absorb excess truckload capacity, pushing down rates and tightening margins for largest US freight broker.

More shippers are putting freight lanes up for bid, Covenant Transportation Group executives say.

Spot market truckload rates are rising on higher demand, but contract rate hikes are being slowed by market uncertainty and excess capacity.

“As expected, margins remains under pressure.”

Werner Enterprises and Heartland Express follow J.B. Hunt in reporting a rise in freight demand as the second quarter gets under way.

Overall throughput increased 1.5 percent.

Shippers and logistics operators at recent conferences didn't expect a massive capacity crunch to follow the rollout of an electronic logging mandate this year, but truckers warned there will be an impact.

Former Long Beach harbor commissioner and current FMC member will return to Southern California to become executive director of Port of Long Beach.

Container traffic at the port of Rotterdam grew 8.8 percent in the first three months of the year, the biggest ever quarterly increase.

Knight-Swift merger, Schneider public offering, seen triggering more truckload acquisitions, consolidation, and soon.

The $6 billion deal announced Monday will establish Knight-Swift Transportation as the largest truckload operator in the United States.

Although more than 90 percent of Samsung SDS’s logistics business originates with Samsung Electronics, Samsung SDS also handles the logistics for approximately 400 other beneficial cargo owners.

Alliance between US and Canadian trucking operators comes as both parties expand.

Auto demand may be 'leveling off,' but Teamsters win wage increases in five-year carhauler deal.

The largest US trucking companies now are owned by large logistics operators looking to provide end-to-end services for shippers.

QualifiedCarriers.com data show more smaller trucking firms entering market as big carriers cut capacity.

An infusion of capital from a stock offering would help Schneider expand services, update equipment, and acquire companies.

The Department of Justice declined to say why CEOs of major carriers were served subpoenas March 15 at the biannual Box Club meeting in San Francisco.

The future of the Compliance, Safety, Accountability or CSA program increasingly is in doubt.

FedEx Freight's latest quarterly earnings show LTL rates rising in the early months of 2017.

Shippers spent more on dedicated trucking and last-mile deliveries last year, benefiting top tier carriers. Will industrial and consumer freight follow in 2017?

The Department of Justice is targeting a “gray area” between its authority and that of the Federal Maritime Commission.

US authorities capitalized on a rare window to exercise their power over non-US-based companies.

A new generation of leadership at US Xpress Enterprises plots a route through disruption, change to come.

A "technical error" could cut $112 million from federal funding for truck safety enforcement programs, raising the risk of high-cost accidents.

Drivers at XPO's terminal in Trenton request a union election as the company battles the union on more than one front.

"After five years we will probably see new alliances, and smaller capacity carriers may lose out.”

Shippers are likely to see LTL rates and fuel surcharges rise in 2017.

The largest US truckload carriers made the best of a bad year in 2016.

Although ports may reopen Wednesday, in parts of the US Northeast, over-the-road freight transport remains frozen.

Adding density by merging separate refrigerated subsidiaries gave Roadrunner market leverage.

A shortage of ocean containers may spell transloading opportunity for US trucking companies.

US spot truckload rates jump as volumes rise 17 percent in the first week of March.

After a "tougher" than expected start to the year, Swift Transportation expects more from March.

Freight management volumes increased “significantly” through the year and outpaced market growth, CEVA said.

LTL-Truckload operator strives to reverse revenue decline, fix finances.

USAT Logistics, the non-asset arm of USA Truck, opens a Mexican subsidiary.

Dedicated trucking prevents deeper revenue decline at the Top 25 Truckload Carriers.

Mid-sized LTL carriers increased revenue at a faster pace in 2016 and are poised to grow more.

Hapag Lloyd CEO Rolf Habben Jansen said the year is off to a strong start, after the container carrier reported a decline in operating profit in 2016.