Trucking News

The US trucking industry still relies on a pre-regulatory-era pricing model after 30 years of freedom to change it.

The 2017 JOC Directory of Trucking is a one-stop source of information for North American shippers and third-party logistics providers.

Private equity firm Transplace management to buy company as shippers increasingly demand not just technology, but also realizing the value of that technology.

The 112-year-old company is at the fulcrum of change rippling through the US trucking market and across trade lanes from Asia to Europe, much of it driven by e-commerce and technology.

Evidence shows shippers have pretty much exhausted the breathing room won in 2015 and 2016 after steep rate truck hikes in 2014. Now is the time for fresh planning.

The second-largest less-than-truckload carrier in the United States is not the company it used to be.

The surge in cargo thefts is a side effect of the country’s worst recession in history.

In technology speak, the collecting of data from ELDs is part of the so-called Internet or Network of Things.

Shippers want faster door-to-door service from less-than-truckload carriers.

Change takes effect on Oct. 2. Longer hours at Barbours Cut to be phased in later.

Bronka’s proximity to the ring road means that shippers will not have to rely on rail as much to get shipments into St. Petersburg.

Shippers need to plan for multiple challenges when the electronic logging mandate takes effect.

Want to avoid FedEx holiday season surcharges? Cut back on packaging and use last-mile services for heavier freight, a transportation consultant advises

First-quarter revenue increased 15.8 percent.

"National system issues" at US Customs and Border Protection alleged to cause truck backups at Canadian-US border crossings.

The $14.6 billion logistics and transportation provider accelerated growth at asset and non-asset operations alike in the second quarter, including its LTL division.

A steady increase in freight volumes and e-commerce demand is fueling an expansion of LTL networks, with YRC Freight planning eight distribution centers.

The Goods and Services Tax (GST) has combined with other ease-of-doing-business measures to speed the movement of truckers.

The carrier said its multiple nightly truck operations boost capacity and route options for shippers.

Shippers are shouldering the cost of a sudden and often unexplained increase in unpaid tolls racked up by independent drayage drivers.

Mexican trucking companies are urging lawmakers to stiffen penalties against cargo robberies.

“We expect contractual rates to begin to improve over the next few quarters.”

Increased second-quarter US industrial activity, consumer confidence primes freight market, pressures rates.

As freight volumes surge, truckload rates are rising faster than 3PLs such as C.H. Robinson Worldwide can adjust pricing.

The campaign to organize workers nationwide across different transportation modes will give the Teamsters more leverage and ultimately cost shippers more, a US labor expert told JOC.com.

APM Terminal (APMT) in the Port of New York and New Jersey says it will have mostly recovered from the cyber attack on Maersk by the end of the week.

A key House committee wants the Department of Transportation to consider delaying its electronic logging mandate, adding more uncertainty to the debate about the regulation, which takes effect in December.

XPO Logistics expects a healthy increase in revenue in the second quarter from the first quarter and a year ago, as freight demand in the US picks up.

Higher second-quarter freight demand drove up costs faster than contract rates for J.B. Hunt Transport Services, squeezing the $6.6 billion company's profits.

LA-LB container terminals are handling alliance changes and the recent APMT cyber attack with only minor glitches, so truckers are confident they will handle peak-season volumes without significant congestion.

Some of the largest and most congested US metropolitan areas have shorter last-mile delivery runs on average than smaller cities, a CBRE survey shows.

Seasonally adjusted employment numbers show trucking employment dropping since March, though raw data show gains. Will truckers shift from first mile to last mile?

Online marketplaces and mobile apps are challenging decades-old business models for industrial distributors as use of e-commerce channels grows, a UPS survey finds.

The $113 million acquisition of Interstate Distributor will give Heartland greater "depth" in important truck lanes and a roster of experienced drivers.

The addition of The Steelman Companies follows mergers with Big Freight Systems and Schilli Companies, pushing Daseke revenue closer to $1 billion.

Trucker frustration builds at delays at APM Terminals at the Port of New York and New Jersey.

Mexico is preparing its first hours of service rules specifically for truck drivers, while Canada readies an electronic logging regulation of its own.

ArcBest subsidiary's "cubic minimum charge" is designed to help LTL carrier capture more costs.

Lengthy truck lines continued outside APM Terminals in the Port of New York and New Jersey Monday on the third day of operations since a massive cyberattack last week on parent company Maersk Group shut down the facility.

A coalition of groups is calling on the Port of New York and New Jersey to revive a plan to ban all trucks with engines from 2007 or older from the port, expressing health concerns.