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Short line and regional freight railroad holding company Patriot Rail Corp. has announced a restructuring of its operations management team, effective Jan. 1, 2012.

Stifel Nicolaus downgraded the stock of Union Pacific from “buy” to “hold” Tuesday despite the investment research firm forecasting higher earnings for the rail giant.

GE Transportation acquired rail industry software developer RMI from The Carlyle Group, expanding its transportation software and optimization business.

Limited changes in truck driver hours of service regulations make a severe trucking

Diesel prices across the United States fell for the six straight week in the week ending Jan.

The Teamsters union is preparing to strike companies represented by the Pipe Line Contractors Association in a dispute over retirement plans.

The Los Angeles-Long Beach’s penalty for the operation of older trucks expired Sunday, as the ports became the first in the nation to have a fleet comprised totally of 2007 or newer trucks.

Florida East Coast Railway plans to expand the reach of its intermodal business in 2012, adding a second drayage “relay” station in Georgia and strengthening its partnerships with large U.

The Federal Maritime Commission will allow Consolidated Chassis Management to directly manage its intermodal chassis pools but said it will monitor CCM to ensure the company doesn’t violate anti

Intermodal volume for major U.S. railroads soared 22.9 percent year-over-year in the week ending Dec.

Diesel prices across the United States fell for the fifth straight week in the week ending Dec. 26, falling 3.7 cents on average to the lowest price in more than two months, according to the U.S.

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Groups representing shippers say new rules on work hours for truck drivers will reduce efficiency across their supply chains, complicating delivery schedules, raising costs and even undermining safety

Regional operator Cross Creek Trucking is shut down this week after federal safety regulators withdrew the company’s authority e

Despite disputes over funding levels and where to find the money, Democrats and Republicans agreed on a broad swath of the safety agenda in several bills the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportatio

Required use of electronic onboard recorders on trucks and buses, a multimodal freight policy and new powers for federal safety agencies are inching closer to becoming part of a broader transportation

Local and state governments seeking a piece of the $500 million in TIGER grants available next year would be wise to pitch projects relating to intermodal rail.

For almost 26 years, Pat Quinn and Max Fuller proved you don’t have to be related to be successful partners in trucking.

The long transformation of the truckload carrier is due to pick up speed in 2012 as freight demand accelerates and trucking companies seek more stable, profitable business models in an economy still s

The American Trucking Associations said Thursday it is considering legal action against tougher new truck

Federal safety regulators issued tougher new hours of service regulations for truck driv

When FedEx reported the busiest day for shipments in its history a couple of weeks before Christmas, the company credited not its flashy signature express delivery but the business segment that once s

With freight rail efficiency pretty much at its limits in stacking containers vertically, railroads increasingly are looking for improvements in the other direction.

The parent of Concert Group Logistics said Wednesday the U.S.

Trucks handled more freight November, as manufacturing output and a restocking of retail inventories helped i

The deadly snowstorm headed toward the Great Lakes threatens to delay further shipments after the freak weather paralyzed truck traffic to the Great Plains while passing through region.

CSX Transportation said it will start on-dock rail service at the Virginia Port Authority's APM Terminal in Portsmouth on Jan. 3.

OOCL and Canadian National Railroad this became the first two carriers of their respective industries to share their manifest data directly with the Customs and Border Protection’s Automated Com

Diesel prices across the United States plummeted 6.6 cents in the week ending Dec. 19, falling at the sharpest pace since May 2010 as crude oil prices inched up.

DB Schenker is in talks with less-than-truckload operator Estes Express Lines to turn over management of the forwarder’s U.S.

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Pay is a major factor in driver turnover, but not the only one. Detention at shipper docks was cited several times in an online discussion of driver detention on the LinkedIn social media Web site.

If a truckload carrier has 100 drivers and a 90 percent annual turnover rate, does that mean only 10 of those drivers are still with the company at the end of the year? Not necessarily.

Intermodal volume for U.S.

Canadian Pacific named veteran railroad executives Tony L. Ingram and Edmond L.

Less-than-truckload giant YRC Worldwide is getting out of the truckload business, selling most of the assets of unprofitable truckload subsidiary Glen Moore to Celadon Trucking, a fast-growing trucklo

A dozen shipper and trucking organizations are planning a one-day blitz on Capitol Hill Feb.

Road and bridge projects received nearly half of the $511 million awarded through the Department of Transportation’s third round of TIGER grants, leaving port and rail-related projects with abou

FedEx Freight, the nation’s largest less-than-truckload carrier, rolled farther into the black in its mos