Trucking News

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

Congress finally killed a program allowing U.S.

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

President Obama said he plans to nominate Robert S.

The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) warned March 19 of the damage that could result from the announcement that the government of Mexico will impose tariffs on U.S.

Trucking activity, a bellwether of general trade and economic conditions, is in sharp decline along the United States-Canada border.

FedEx earnings plunged in the company’s fiscal third quarter as a result of the global recession.

Montreal-based TransForce, Canada's largest all-categories trucking/logistics firm, reports buckling down to a "deteriorating" business economy in North America with hiring and salary freeze

The weakening economy reared its head in the latest data on trade between the United States, Canada and Mexico, showing year-over-year surface transportation growth of imports and exports in 2008 to b

The Producer Price Index in the transportation and warehousing sector slowed to 0.5 percent in February from 0.8 percent in January.

London -- France's freight transport system faces paralysis on March 19 as longshoremen, railroad workers, truckers and air cargo handlers join a 24-hour general strike to protest against President Ni