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Russian private rail freight operator Globaltrans is aiming to raise around $450 million from a share sale to fund potential acquisitions in the nation’s rapidly consolidating domestic market.

A section of a Norfolk Southern Railway train hauling ethanol on Wednesday morning derailed in Columbus, Ohio, sparking a fiery blast that forced the evacuation of about 100 people, according to repor

Diesel prices in the U.S. rose for the first time in three months, climbing 3.5 cents in the week ending July 9 as oil prices rose more than a $1.

Total U.S. freight tonnage will grow 21 percent by 2023, as freight revenue rises 59 percent, the American Trucking Associations predicts in a new freight forecast.

Truck shipments rose in June from May but were down year-over-year, while freight spending by shippers declined, according to Cass Information Systems.

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Transportation and warehousing lost about 2,200 jobs in June, after a 36,000 job hiring spree in May,

The Journal of Commerce Trucking Employment Index edged up one-tenth of a percentage point in June as trucking hiring slowed to a crawl.

Intermodal shipments on major U.S.

Heavy duty truck orders were soft in June, as motor carriers concerned by rising truck prices, tight financing and a slowing economy kept their wallets shut.

The Port of Long Beach plans to provide an incentive payment to ocean carriers in hopes of attracting more intermodal rail cargo to the port.

Trucking operator Saia didn’t have to look far for a logistics company to buy — Robart Transportation

Trucking giant Old Dominion Freight Line is expanding its less-than-truckload network, opening new terminals in Southern California and Florida.

Although a new study raises doubts about the reliability of CSA scores, those score

A second Wells Fargo analysis of the CSA program deepens doubts about the link between CSA BASIC scores and a trucker

Union Pacific Railroad CEO and President Jack Koraleski said the railroad is on track for annual year-over-year volume growth and record 2012 profit.

Saia, a multiregional less-than-truckload carrier, purchased Robart Companies, a truck freight broker and logistics services provider based in Duluth, Ga.

UPS Freight will raise its less-than-truckload tariff pricing 5.9 percent on average July 16, joining other LTL carriers with general rate increases this summer.

The London Gateway deep-sea container port and distribution hub will offer rail service across the U.K. on the day it opens in the fourth quarter of 2013.

For more than two years, shippers have braced for a hard crunch in truck capacity, a blow that seemed inevitable in 2010 as the economy began to recover.

With its first annual profit since 2008 in the bank, FedEx Freight is moving to tighten its less-than-truckload network.

Higher manufacturing output in the Midwest is translating to more trucking jobs.

As ports prepare for a modest spike in cargo volumes during the peak shipping season, ocean carriers, marine terminals, railroads and equipment providers appear to be flush with capacity.

The newly-passed surface transportation bill requires freight brokers and forwarder

The final surface transportation bill passed on Friday, providing victories and disappointments for shippers and freight transportation providers.

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit by owner-operator truck drivers who claimed they were illegally misclassified as contractors instead of employees by one of the Port of New York and New Jersey&rsqu

Canadian Pacific Railway has tapped E.

The 2009 recession changed the trucking industry "fundamentally," forcing deep changes in less-than-truckload and truckload operations, Con-way CEO and president Douglas W.

Intermodal shipments on major U.S.

A truck strike over working conditions in South Korea continued to paralyze import and export trade Thursday.

The American Trucking Associations will hold its first-ever conference in late November on the opportunities burgeoning natural gas production could provide to the trucking industry.

Swift Transportation, the nation's largest truckload carrier, will offer truck drivers quarterly performance-linked bonuses that it says could add up to 6 cents per mile to their pay.

Virginia International Terminals implemented new terminal-operating software at the Port of Richmond.

The value of surface transportation trade between the U.S. and Canada and Mexico in April rose 8.2 percent year-over-year but fell 6.9 percent from March, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics.

Diesel prices in the U.S. hit the lowest point since February 2011, falling 5.1 cents in the week ending June 25 as oil prices fell to a little over $79 per barrel.

Stacks of Crowley and Seaboard Marine containers at Florida East Coast Railway’s Hialeah Rail Yard near Miami are a sign of the volumes South Florida’s ports see coming down their sea lane

By acquiring Panther Expedited Services, a $215 million non-asset trucking and logistics operator, holding company Arkansas Best is reaching beyond its core less-than-truckload market to pursue what i

YRC Freight plans to raise base rates 6.9 percent on average, matching rate increases announced by several compe

FedEx Freight reported a $162 million operating profit for fiscal 2012 on $5.3 billion in revenue, its first annual profit since 2008, when it earned $329 million.

Con-way Freight will raise its non-contract rates 6.9 percent on average July 9, becoming the third less-than-truckload carrier to announce a rate hike.