Trucking News

Hostility toward proposed changes to truck driver hours of service rules could come to a boil at a Feb. 17 public hearing with federal regulators in Arlington, Va.

Knight Transportation is breaking from the truckload pack, adding capacity and increasing its length of

Higher spot market and contract pricing and fewer empty miles boosted Werner Enterprises' net profit 34 percent in the fourth quarter to $24.1 million.

YRC Worldwide will cut 80 jobs in Akron, Ohio, and is looking for a buyer for the former headquarters of Roadway Express there, the Akron Beacon Journal reported.

Heartland Express Chairman and CEO Russell Gerdin will take a leave of absence from his position at the truckload carrier for health reasons, the company said.

Congressional leaders are moving a new six-year surface transportation bill higher on their priority lists after President Obama’s call for infrastructure investment in his State of the Union ad

Higher intermodal and logistics revenue boosted fourth quarter profits and sales at temperature-controlled trucker Marten Transport, Mondovi, Wis.

Truck tonnage rose 5.7 percent last year compared with 2009, helping tonnage to recovery from an 8.7 percent plunge, the American Trucking Associations said.

Truckload carrier Celadon Group’s net profit increased to $2.9 million in its last quarter, nearly triple its net income a year ago of $1 million.

Transportation trade groups are praising President Obama's call to rebuild the nation’s efforts infrastructure but some members of Congress say the administration will have to put more details b

Swift Transportation raised its operating revenue 16.8 percent year-over-year in the fourth quarter to $780.4 million as it increased volume and raised rates.

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Canadian trucking operator Vitran is trying to redraw North America’s less-than-truckload map, and its own expansion strategy, by acquiring the LTL business of Milan Express.

Truck safety regulators are focusing increasingly not on the truck but on the driver who operates it.

Why should anyone worry about improving bridges between the U.S. and Canada? U.S. imports plummeted 33 percent between from 2008 to 2009, and U.S. exports slid 21 percent.

Sometime in the next few months, President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will unveil a broad, new vision for the border separating the world’s two largest trading partners, re

Trucking operators aren’t buying trucks to expand capacity; they’re buying trucking companies.

Heartland Express increased its profit 43.9 percent year-over-year to $15.4 million in the fourth quarter, as sales rose 13.7 percent to $129.2 million.

India’s Port of Chennai, which is struggling to cope with increased congestion, broke ground on the Chennai-Ennore road connectivity project, a long-standing demand of trade and user associations.

Trucking companies are telling Union Pacific Railroad are indicating they want to push a greater share of their freight onto trains for long-haul transport, says James R.

Heavy truck sales hit their highest point since May 2006 in December, as trucking companies put newfound profits into new vehicles, said ACT Research.

Average diesel fuel prices leaped 7.4 cents a gallon across the United States in the past week, the sharpest increase in a two-month surge in pricing that has pushed cost of the fuel to $3.407 a gallo

Truckload demand is slackening in January, loosening freight capacity that tightened during the pre-holiday shipping season, according to Longbow Research.

ABF Freight System is taking its legal challenge against concession agreements negotiated by YRC Worldwide and the Teamsters to the U.S. Court of Appeals.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood said he expects to have an agreement to revive cross-border trucking between the U.S. and Mexico by the middle of the year after sending U.S.

Trucking company Cargo Transportation Services can attempt to reorganize after a U.S. bankruptcy court judge gave the company the cash it needs to keep rolling.

Truckload carrier Titan Transfer saw its strongest freight demand of the fourth quarter in December, a sharp change from normal seasonal trends that suggests pent-up shipping demand in the U.S.

The spot market for truckload freight surged 55 percent year-over-year in December, according to the TransCore North American Freight Index.

Third-party logistics provider Greatwide Logistics Services acquired trucking operator Overton Transportation from Sysco. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

ABF Freight System is expanding service to the Dominican Republic as trade with the Caribbean nation picks up, led by U.S. exports to free trade zones.

It may be months before truckers know how many hours they’ll be allowed to drive under new federal work rules, but they almost certainly will have less time to accomplish the work they now do an

House Republicans are wasting no time asserting their new majority on transportation programs.

As 2011 gets under way, less-than-truckload carriers increasingly are thinking outside the pallet, expanding and launching non-traditional services in a bid to secure more freight and reach deeper int

Truckload carrier Transport America is expanding by acquiring Southern Cal Transport, a Birmingham, Ala.-based trucking company.

Canadian transportation company Vitran is expanding into the Southeastern U.S. by purchasing the $70 million less-than-truckload division of Milan Express.

Con-way Freight says it expects the company's operating profit to fall by nearly a third in the fourth quarter because soaring healthcare costs are offsetting improvements in shipping demand.

The new chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, signaling domestic transport goals similar to those of the Obama administration, says he wants to advance several initiatives

A new U.S.-Mexico cross-border trucking program could be in place within four to six months, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk said Monday.

Investment in transportation is a key part of rebuilding the U.S. economic foundation, and the U.S.

The number of trucking operations tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics dropped 7.5 percent from 2007 through early 2010, a sign of significant consolidation among motor carriers over the course o