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How tight is LTL capacity? That depends on the carrier and its territory.

ABF Freight System is extending its move toward international business with a less-than-containerload ocean offering the carrier will combine with its U.S.

Short-line rail operator Genesee & Wyoming increased carloads 14.2 percent in October, largely because of acquisitions and higher mineral and stone shipments.

More than $2 million in bankruptcy estate assets may be distributed to 676 former employees of Arrow Trucking, a flatbed carrier that shut down in 2009.

Union Pacific Railroad is pushing back the opening of its grain transloading facility at Yermo, Calif., to late 2011 or early 2012 amid a declining grain export market.

Intermodal container loads for U.S. railroads slowed down in the week ending Nov.

Construction has begun on a $208 million rail crossing project that will reduce train and vehicle congestion in Colton, Calif., where the convergence of east-west and north-south rail lines creates on

Just as it did this year, the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority probably will need another shortfall payment from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach when a debt payment is due on Oct.

Mark Furman has a list of reasons why the market for building new railcars is strong despite continuing worries about where the economy is headed.

The American Trucking Associations joined an array of business groups praising a transportation spending plan appro

The Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index reversed course in October, rising 1.1 percent from September after declining for three consecutive months, indicating that trucking activity as measured by f

Capacity at a group of six large truckload carriers tracked by The Journal of Commerce fell a cumulative 1.5 percent from the second quarter and 1.5 percent from a year ago, with two carriers increasi

Less-than-truckload pricing is rising, financial results from the largest LTL carriers show, buoyed by tightening capacity and increased freight volume despite uncertainty about the course the economy

Domestic intermodal traffic spiked upward 6.3 percent in the third quarter, an industry group said

President Obama’s team trying to head off a nationwide rail strike or lockout offered new recommendations on contract terms, triggering a final 30-day countdown toward labor action on Dec.

Intermodal provider Hub Group said its Comtrak Logistics unit acquired assets of intermodal drayage trucker Challenge

Displaying confidence in U.S.

A 30 percent increase in shipments pushed third-quarter gross revenue up 40 percent year-over-year to $159 million at Echo Global Logistics.

North American owners of freight railcars trucked 1,378 more into storage lots and track sidings during October, as traffic slowed some from the peaks set in

Profits tightened at XPO Logistics, formerly Express-1Expedited Solutions, as operating revenue rose 6.6 percent in the third quarter to $47.4 million.

Felixstowe’s container rail traffic hit a record 11,019 containers in a single week, as the UK’s largest box port reaps the benefits of a three-year investment in tracks, cranes and termin

Less than two months after being named president of YRC, Jeff Rogers is cutting away layers of management and consolidating sales and operations in an attempt to steer the national less-than-truckload

The intermodal industry gathers next week in Atlanta for the Intermodal Expo, hosted by the Intermodal Association of North America.

A new management style is becoming evident at YRC Worldwide and its long-haul subsidiary YRC, as new CEO James L.

Caught between pressure from captive shippers and strong opposition from railroads, industry regulators chose Friday to delay making any decision on whether to impose more competitive switching rules.

Transportation employment increased more than 2 percent year-over-year in October, with rail employment up 3.8 percent and trucking up 2.9 percent.

Activist hedge fund investor William Ackman’s plan for boosting the value of his stake in Canadian Pacific Railway does not include selling off the second-largest carrier in Canada, Ackman told

YRC Worldwide gave Jamie G. Pierson the job he’s been doing effectively since August, naming him executive vice president and chief financial officer.

Somewhere, somehow, the intermodal market missed the message that the U.S. economy might be stumbling back into recession.

A lawsuit filed by the Natural Resources Defense Council in California may have national implications for all railroads.

The center of intermodal growth is shifting toward the center of the U.S., as U.S. manufacturing creates more shorter-haul, domestic intermodal freight.

As more truckloads are converted to intermodal containerloads, trucking companies aren’t rushing to cut rates to keep that freight on the highway.

The $500 million financial restructuring completed in July may save YRC Worldwide in the long-term, but any gain came with some short-term pain in the third quarter.

Steady freight demand in less-than-truckload and truckload markets boosted Con-way’s total revenue 8.4 percent in the third quarter to $1.38 billion.

The U.S. agency that regulates economic issues between railroads and shippers says Union Pacific Railroad was the only major carrier that pulled in sufficient revenue in 2010.

Intermodal rail traffic is maintaining good momentum this autumn even as the international shipping business moving containers on the water remains in the doldrums.

Backers of two competing transportation plans are jockeying for support by selling their initiatives as job creators and taking shots at the other side for funding shortfalls.

Propelled by surging rail equipment demand, railcar and barge maker Greenbrier Companies saw profit jump 64 percent to $12.6 million in the fiscal fourth quarter ending Aug. 31.

Acquisitions, rate hikes and a surge in freight pushed revenue up 38.2 percent to $226.2 million in the third quarter at Roadrunner Transportation System.

TransForce's acquisition of a cross-border, expedited less-than-truckload carrier expands the Canadian trucking giant's reach further into the U.S.