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Activity in the industrial real estate sector is building after being in the doldrums for more than two years.

The driver turnover rate at large truckload fleets rose to an annualized rate of 75 percent in the first quarter of 2011, the American Trucking Associations said.

FedEx Freight returned to profitability in its last quarter after completing the merger of its long-haul and regional less-than-truckload operations.

European Union trust busters launched an investigation into whether a $322 million rescue of French shipping company SeaFrance by state-owned railway SNCF breached state aid rules.

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FedEx increased revenue 12 percent in the quarter and 13 percent in the fiscal year that ended May 31, reporting total annual revenue of $39.3 billion.

After a strong first quarter, intermodal activity slowed in recent months in line with a “tentative” economic recovery and consumers hit by weakness in jobs and home values, Schneider Nati

Environmental advocates this week served the Union Pacific and BNSF railroads notice to implement pollution-reduction measures within 90 days at their yards throughout California or they will be sued

Logistics and supply chain management solutions company Ryder Systems received three anti-terrorism certifications this week for its logistics operations in the Asia and trans-Pacific regions.

A new cross-border trucking program with Mexico could be in place within two months, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administrator Anne S. Ferro said.

Payouts to states by the Department of Transportation for construction projects under the 2009 stimulus law totaled just below $29 billion as of June 10, the Obama administration said on its Recovery.

CEVA Logistics will lease more than 1,000 trailers from Ryder System, bringing its total U.S. trailer capacity to more than 4,700 units, the company said Monday.

When Warren Buffett announced late in 2009 his Berkshire Hathaway investment firm would buy up BNSF Railway, he said he’d always wanted to own a railroad.

A tough weather year that started with blizzards is only getting worse for major North American railroads and their customers, as Missouri River flooding that only looks to spread shuts off Midwestern

Roadrunner Transportation Systems is running down more than one road.

Warren Buffett’s purchase of BNSF triggered a regulatory rate battle that could set a precedent for future railroad mergers or acquisitions.

For more than 80 years, Kane Is Able has been a family-owned and family-run trucking and logistics business, hauling freight from Boston to Washington, D.C.

Even before Berkshire Hathaway offered in November 2009 to buy the 77.4 percent of BNSF Railway the investment giant didn’t own, speculation at times centered on how long the railroad’s to

Major North American railroads, shaking off the doldrums that slowed freight traffic during the spring, had their largest intermodal volume this year during the week ending June 11.

Despite a slowed freight sector and a weakened economy this spring, the largest freight railroads added 745 workers to their U.S.

Less-than-truckload carriers are broadly dissatisfied with LTL pricing models, but not at all optimistic about changing to a new method for matching prices to freight.

Canadian National Railway will sell “substantially all of the assets” of Illinois Central RailMarine Terminal near New Orleans to Raven Energy.

APL Logistics, looking for greater efficiency matching international and U.S. domestic transport, will deploy its own fleet of 53-foot containers in the North American domestic intermodal market.

A private investment group is spending $150 million to take over ownership of freight broker Express-1 Expedited Solutions and installing lead investor Bradley S. Jacobs as the chairman and CEO.

A key weekly measure of trucking capacity rose last week to a near three-year high, indicating the availability of truckload equipment continues to tighten.

Average diesel prices across the United States edged upward 1.4 cents a gallon in the week ending June 13, ending a five-week slide that has pushed fuel prices back below $4 a gallon in most of the co

The Broward County Board of County Commissioners Tuesday authorized Port Everglades’ staff to begin talks with the Florida East Coast Railway toward development of an intermodal rail transfer fa

CSX Transportation believes its new Northwest Ohio hub will give it a new edge over over-the-road trucking by lowering the cost of transportation for shippers moving goods into the Midwest.

UPS Freight is cutting transit times between Western Canada and U.S. markets by at least one day, speeding cross-border shipments from Vancouver.

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Intermodal services provider Hub Group acquired Domestic Transport, a Pacific, Wash.-based drayage company that delivers containers in the Pacific Northwest.

After acquiring the regional trucking operator USF for $1.37 billion in May 2005, YRC Worldwide Chairman, President and CEO William D.

Logistics technology provider Descartes Systems Group is acquiring software specialist Telargo to add new mobile information capabilities to trucking operations systems.

A little acquisition by a very big company sent a jolt through the U.S. trucking industry on June 1.

With one of North America’s most dramatic bridges as a backdrop, Michigan Gov.

Now that negotiations with the Teamsters union, lenders and others with a financial stake in the company are largely completed, YRC Worldwide’s most crucial negotiations may be with its shippers

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The flooding Missouri River is cutting off rail lines, yards and shippers for several major North American carriers, and the range of outages will expand in the next week.

Shippers expect truckload capacity to keep tightening over the next year, but believe the less-than-truckload market will be more stable, according to a recent survey.

A recent survey of shippers had some good news for YRC Worldwide: Only 6 percent of those surveyed plan to reduce freight shipped with the trucking giant as it restructures to avoid bankruptcy, and 17