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Political turmoil in the Middle East threatened world supplies of oil and pushed the price of crude oil up 6 percent in a single day’s trading Tuesday. Retail diesel prices in the U.S.

Clarence L. Werner, the founder of Werner Enterprises, is stepping down as chairman of the $1.8 billion trucking company. Werner, a former truck driver, founded the carrier with one truck in 1956.

Norfolk Southern Railway is ordering 1,500 high-capacity coal hauling railcars from FreightCar America, in an order valued at more than $100 million.

The seven major freight railroads reduced employment on their U.S. lines by 1,096 workers from mid-December to mid-January, the second straight cut after trimming 642 jobs the month before.

Port Metro Vancouver and Canadian Pacific Railway unveiled a "collaboration agreement" they say should improve productivity and reliability in moving goods through that major Canadian trade flow gatew

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is pursuing a three-pronged strategy to truck safety as it tries to drive truck accident fatalities lower.

The top management of U.S. 1 Industries plans to acquire the trucking operator, spending about $10 million to buy out other shareholders.

Tom Adamski is a trucking executive with 34 drivers carrying 101 pieces of identification allowing them to shuttle containers in and out of terminals at the Port of New York and New Jersey.

A revolution in technology, from cloud computing to mobile phone apps, is enabling trucking’s evolution in an increasingly multimodal era.

With a sweeping new surface transportation plan in his 2012 budget proposal, President Obama is setting out the ambitious multiyear vision much of the transportation world had been awaiting from the W

The road is shifting for Roadrunner Transportation and other less-than-truckload carriers diversifying to capture more of their customers’ freight.

The heavy-haul and flatbed specialist is offering owner-operators a 1 percent pay increase to use smart phone technology to complete their driver logs.

Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., wants shippers to speed truck drivers through their gates or pay the consequences for excessive detention time during loading or unloading.

North American railcar owners scrapped a net 3 to 4 percent of cars they operated or held in storage during the recession, sending about 57,000 aging units to recyclers since they began drawing down t

Proposed changes to truck driver hours of service rules would raise transportatio

An attorney for the coalition that won two court victories over recent hours of service rules for truckers says the most recent proposed rule a step in the “right direction,” but it may no

Schneider National would need to increase driver pay by about $3,000 per year "to keep commercial drivers whole from a W-2 perspective" if proposed changes in hours of service rules take effect, an ex

FreightCar America narrowed its fourth-quarter net loss to $3.5 million from a $5.5 million loss in the 2009 period and said orders to build new cars are starting to grow.

Burlington Northern Santa Fe named Raymond B. Greer the first president of its subsidiary BNSF Logistics, effective Feb. 15.

Truckers in Colombia will stop blocking roads in Bogota but will maintain their strike against a government plan to deregulate freight rates.

Congress is taking steps to complete legislation that gives operating authority to the Federal Aviation Administration, after 18 attempts to approve the last reauthorization, which expired in 2007.

The safety benefits of proposed changes to truck driver hours of service rules have been "wildly overstated," the American Trucking Associations claims.

Truckers will have a last chance to make their case against proposed changes to truck driver hours of service rules Thursday as the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration hosts an all-day listeni

The Cleveland-Cuyahoga Port Authority is shifting its plans from a freight-focused ferry service across Lake Erie to Canada to focus on passenger operations.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will take comments on its proposed truck driver hours of service rules until March 4 and hold what may be the last public "listening session" on its pro

Truckload carriers are seeking rate hikes ranging from 5 to 10 percent as annual contracts come up for renewal, Wall Street firm Longbow Research reports.

England Logistics acquired TMS Technologies of Alma, Mich., giving the subsidiary of trucking giant C.R. England access to new logistics technologies and tools.

The Surface Transportation Board wants to make it cheaper for frustrated rail shippers to file formal complaints over rates and service, which could increase the number of cases customers initiate aga

President Obama's proposed budget would breathe new life into a cross-border trucking agreement with Mexico, allocating $50.

Colombian truck drivers, on strike for more than two weeks, are blocking major roadways in the capital city of Bogota, causing a complete standstill during rush hour and forcing residents to walk to w

The White House is seeking a 10 percent increase in motor carrier safety funding in its 2012 budget proposal as part of a $4

FedEx is forecasting its earnings in the fiscal quarter ending this month will come up to 40 percent below earlier projections because of the severe impact

The price of diesel across the United States climbed an average of 2.1 cents last week to $3.534 per gallon in the 11th straight weekly increase, according to the U.S.

Even before regulators consider bringing various “exempt” rail shippers under federal processes that allow them to file rate and service complaints against railroads, the Department of Tra

The less-than-truckload industry is shrinking its way toward profitability as carriers struggle to emerge from three years of decline.

A year after the trans-Pacific slack season turned into anything but that, harbor truckers in Southern California are bracing for the slowdowns that come at marine terminals operating with reduced gat

Freight shipping demand showed resilience in the fourth quarter, as consumers opened their wallets wider and manufacturing activity picked up, pressing retailers to restock inventories.

C.H. Robinson Worldwide, the nation’s largest truck freight broker, says the domestic shipping market’s momentum from 2010 is extending into this year.

What do a crushed stone supplier in Texas, automobile producers across the U.S. and the Washington state potato industry have in common?

Rail carload traffic increased 27 percent in January at short line and regional railroad operator Genesee & Wyoming, rising to 82,735 carloads.