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The building blocks of driver retention seem deceptively simple: pay, working conditions, communications and training. But drivers can be lost in the details.

President Obama stepped into a simmering dispute between rail unions and most major railroads Oct.

The Department of Transportation on Friday approved one Mexican trucking company’s request to operate on U.S.

The Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index fell 1 percent in September, as truck industry fuel purchasing fell back in an indication trucking activity dropped over the summer and into the early fall.

J.B. Hunt Transport Services stayed well ahead of a slowing economy in the third quarter, increasing its profit 32 percent from a year ago to $68.7 million.

North America’s major freight railroads hauled 2.1 percent more intermodal traffic than a year earlier in the week ending Oct. 8, while bulk carload traffic grew 3.3 percent.

FedEx Ground opened a $100 million sorting and distribution hub in North Carolina Wednesday that will speed package deliveries in the Southeast.

The Virginia Port Authority is expanding its market for discretionary container shipments into the Southeast and the Midwest through two new rail services.

North American intermodal traffic is hitting all-time weekly highs but the biggest railroads are raising caution flags about how the freight business will fare in coming months.

The rail peak season is under way for intermodal and some other cargoes, and the heads of major railroads have been preparing for months.

A recession forecast from the Economic Research Cycle Institute could point to a slump in rail freight volumes in coming months based on past correlations, says analyst Matthew Troy of Susquehanna Int

Logistics services company Transplace is expanding from its trucking base into intermodal rail by merging with intermodal marketer Celtic International.

DB Schenker said its new daily rail container service between Germany and China, starting in late November, will more than halve the transit time of sea transport.

With cargo volumes moving through the Alameda Corridor in Southern California still recovering from the 2008-09 recession, the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have been called upon to cover the co

The value of Canadian and U.S.

Celadon Group purchased a 6.3 percent stake in rival truckload carrier USA Truck for $4.7 million, raising the prospect of a merger between the competitors.

CSX Transportation said it has completed nearly a third of federally aided track clearance projects so that doublestack container trains can move between its new intermodal hub in northwest Ohio and a

The Dependable Companies is turning to a dependable source of energy to power its headquarters — the sun.

BNSF Railway intermodal executive Fred Malesa does not believe West Coast ports will lose much market share in the Asian trade when the

Diesel prices across the United States fell 2.8 cents in the ending Oct. 10, dropping down to under $4 per gallon in all regions for the first time in six weeks as crude oil prices crept upward.

Shippers need to do more to help trucking companies reduce rising driver turnover rates and help keep transportation costs in line, a transportation consultant says.

Truckload giant Schneider National is leveraging its intermodal capabilities and relationship with Canadian National to speed freight between the U.S. and Canada.

YRC Worldwide is moving toward a reverse stock split to boost the per share value of its common stock and avoid being kicked off the Nasdaq exchange.

Bulk chemical hauler Quality Distribution paid $8.5 million for Greensville Transport of Virginia, expanding its intermodal tank container business.

In some ways, Con-way Freight, with $3.1 billion in revenue last year, fared better over the past two years than its largest competitors, YRC and FedEx Freight.

Just how successful has PierPass been at the Port of Los Angeles-Long Beach?

Two years ago, the nation’s largest trucking companies were locked in a no-discount-barred price war that slashed less-than-truckload rates across the industry and cut into the bottom lines at F

Weber Logistics has a new contract with German candy maker Storck to distribute more than a million cases of such popular brands as Riesen, Werthers, Mamba, Merci and Toffifay to its customers and con

YRC Worldwide hopes to emulate the recent success of its regional carrier Holland on a broader scale by naming Jeff Rogers president of national carrier YRC.

Employment in for-hire trucking rose only two tenths of a percent in September from August, as the U.S.

For-hire truckload carriers increased their revenue 10 percent in the first half of the year compared to the same period in 2010, according to a TransCore survey.

New Con-way Freight President W. Gregory Lehmkuhl chose Thomas W. Clark, a 26-year Con-way veteran, as his executive vice president of operations.

President Obama, moving to prevent a potential strike against major U.S.

FedEx Freight expanded its service center in Butte, Mont., to a 65-door facility to make it a less-than-truckload hub in the Northwest.

With a mild 0.6 percent gain in the latest week, major North American railroads again set a new all-time high in intermodal loadings with 313,026 containers and trailers in the week ending Oct.

A broad-based pickup in bulk railcar shipments pushed freight carloads up 2.2 percent at major North American railroads in the week ending Oct.

Federal regulators are due to issue a final rule on changes in truck driver hours at the end of this month, but opponents say the Obama administration should let the clock run out.

An election that could determine the course of the Teamsters union and the tenor of its relations with employers begins Thursday as ballots are mailed to Teamsters.

The Republican-controlled House is speeding toward a conflict with the Department of Transportation that could scuttle changes to trucker hours of service rules.