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The two organizations that have wrestled over the unionization of harbor drayage companies for the past few years promised attendees at the 11th annual

The largest U.S. railroads will spend an estimated $12 billion on capital improvements this year, easily outpacing the record capital expenditures of $10.7 billion they made in 2010.

Logistics operator Dunavant Enterprises acquired Sea Lane Express, a trucking and drayage company operating in the U.S. Southeast, its second acquisition in four months.

The American Trucking Associations wants the Obama administration to stop the opening and inspection of hazardous materials shipments unless those shipments are believed to pose an "imminent danger" o

Electric truck maker Smith Electric Vehicles U.S. raised $58 million in a series of stock sales. The proceeds will help the company pay for its acquisition of Smith Electric Vehicles UK.

Railcar owners in the U.S., Canada and Mexico took 12,457 units out of storage in February, leaving the continent's idled fleet at 20.2 percent of all railcars available for service, said the Associat

The White House said Monday it was considering its options as to whether it should open the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve as unrest in the Middle East sent prices for crude oil and refined prod

YRC Worldwide Chief Financial Officer Sheila Taylor will leave the troubled trucking giant March 31 as it attempts to recruit new leadership and restructure its finances.

The Federal Railroad Administration, in a legal settlement with the Association of American Railroads, agreed to issue new regulations that could scale back the amount of Class I rail track that must

Petroleum provides only a little more than 6 percent of the carload traffic for Canada’s two Class I railroads, but the carriers say energy may offer a bright future.

Khalid Ali Aldawsari studied more than English and chemical engineering in his two years as a U.S. college student.

Nine years after first making loans, the federal Railroad Rehabilitation and Improvement Financing program is stumbling.

Regulators at the Surface Transportation Board insist they are not about to make sudden moves to dramatically toughen federal oversight.

The cargo carriers typically travel in a convoy, a line of trucks and escort vehicles, figuring there’s strength in numbers.

The debate over truck driver hours-of-service is bumping up against shipper docks, as some truckers and an influential member of Congress are calling for limits on the time shippers and receivers can

The future of Canada’s Class I railroads is tied inextricably to trade with the Asia-Pacific region, and the freight moving to and from the U.S.

Kansas City Southern, operator of the smallest of North America’s Class I railroads, is redesigning a federal loan request with an eye to the Obama administration’s focus on making rail lo

One way shippers and truckers can mitigate their risk to cargo theft in Mexico, security analysts say, is to develop strong relationships with key law enforcement officers and agencies.

Trucking hired 11,000 workers in February, accounting for half of a monthly gain in transportation and warehousing jobs, according to federal employment statistics.

Transportation costs could rise as much as 20 percent if the Department of Transportation cuts the time truck drivers may spend behind the wheel, the National Retail Federation says.

The Surface Transportation Board says NSF Railway’s method for limiting a shipper’s coal dust dispersion on its tracks is “not reasonable” but is leaving the door open for rail

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 14-1 to approve the Railroad Antitrust Enforcement Act, the latest effort by Sen.

UPS agreed to pay a $1.3 million fine and to hire independent inspectors for its trucks in New York in a settlement with the attorney general there.

Business interests hailed a U.S.-Mexico agreement on cross-border trucking that is sure to be

The U.S. and Mexico reached a preliminary agreement on resolving a cross-border trucking dispute that led to $2.4 billion in Mexican tariffs on U.S. goods.

Heavy truck orders slowed 11 percent in February, but remained high enough to keep truck plants humming well into 2011, according to ACT Research.

Americans took to the road in increasing numbers last year, taking advantage of relatively low fuel prices as increased confidence in the economic recovery.

Nearly 150 members of Congress urged the Obama administration to drop its proposed hours-of-service rule and keep the current work rules for truck drivers.

Truckload capacity slackened slightly in the last two weeks of February but remains significantly tighter than in recent months, according to Longbow Research.

The Surface Transportation Board's current sole Republican member, Vice Chairman Charles D.

Kuehne+Nagel reported 2010 net profit grew 28.7 percent from the previous year on sharply higher ocean and air freight volumes and gave an upbeat assessment of prospects for 2011.

Trucking passes on to customers substantially less of the total cost of transportation than competing modes, and that distorts competition, according to a report by the Government Accountability Offic

Average retail diesel prices last week across the United States rocketed 14.3 cents to a national average of $3.716 per gallon, the biggest one-week surge in more than two-and-a-half years, according

YRC Worldwide said it reached an agreement with key stakeholders on a comprehensive restructuring plan, meeting a Feb. 28 deadline.

The American Trucking Associations is raising the ante in its challenge to the science behind proposed new truck driver hours of service rules with a statement that studies linking length of sleep tim

Universal Truckload Services increased its operating revenue 20.4 percent to $605.9 million last year, aided b

A new agreement signed by the Washington State Department of Transportation, BNSF Railway and Amtrak clears the way to spend $590 million of a federal grant to upgrade freight tracks for expanded pass

There’s a new yardstick for capacity among the many figures the shipping world uses to measure available space: hours.

Get ready for the Golden Age of intermodal shipments across North America’s rail network.

Shippers don’t need a road map to know where truckload rates are going, but they may need an altimeter. Truck pricing is moving up and is likely to climb higher.