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The final report by President Obama's deficit commission stuck with a plan offered earlier by its co-chairs to hike federal fuel taxes 15 cents a gallon but included a number of recommendations that c

More than 400 owner-operators drove their trucks in a massive protest convoy on Highway 91 outside of Vancouver last Friday.

The Senate Tuesday morning passed by a 73-25 vote a bill that would give the Food and Drug Administration added authority to keep contaminated food out of the food chain.

Retail prices for diesel fuel fell an average of nine-tenths of a cent last week to $3.162 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Smaller trucking companies and expedited carriers are asking a federal court to stay a portion of the federal CSA 2010 safety initiative set to take effect next month.

The Obama administration is formally introducing its emission and fuel efficiency rules for heavy trucks and other freight-hauling vehicles, starting a 60-day countdown for public comment.

BNSF Railway and Illinois have reached a preliminary agreement on how to spend $45 million in state funds to upgrade the rail network at Galesburg, Ill., to help passenger and freight trains operate e

Used truck sales fell 16 percent in October from the previous month, while orders for new heavy trucks surged 24 percent from September.

The Surface Transportation Board delayed for 60 days starting a major review of its cargo exemption rules, citing a request from the American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association.

As the effort to reshape federal rules on railroads’ rate-setting power shifts to the Surface Transportation Board, it is becoming clear that nothing will change quickly.

Supermarkets and shopping malls don’t have rail sidings, truckers love to point out, but the intermodal industry is moving steadily closer to the store floor.

Freight shipping demand slowed in the third quarter, but many of the nation’s largest trucking companies improved their bottom lines by carefully matching capacity to demand and better utilizing

Truck freight volume rose for the second straight month in October, pushing for-hire truck tonnage up 6.1 percent year-to-date compared with the first 10 months of 2009.

Major North American railroads hauled the most intermodal equipment in a month during the week ending Nov. 20.

Southeastern Freight Lines is expanding its workforce by hiring 900 employees, bringing its total headcount to more than 7,000 workers by the end of 2010.

Orders of new trailers hit a 33-month high in October, as dry van trailer orders more than doubled, according to ACT Research. Total orders topped of 17,000 units.

APL Logistics hired two veteran intermodal experts to strengthen its inland transport capabilities.

Department of Transportation spending, under the 2009 economic stimulus law, reached $22.65 billion as of Nov.

Last-minute changes to the Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010 initiative announced last Thursday will benefit truckers, but will leave some shippers wondering how to assess their carriers’ safet

Like any good buyer, Brown Trucking’s Brian Kinsey has a checklist of sorts for evaluating a potential acquisition.

Is this the time to buy or sell a trucking company? Businesses on both sides of the question are concluding the time is right for the sort of transactions missing since the beginning of the U.S.

After watching freight volumes moderate or slip in the late summer and early fall, some trucking companies are enjoying a late peak shipping season.

Bengt Henriksen has been importing fireworks for years, contracting with a large motor carrier to haul his hazardous cargo from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to local warehouses and rail ram

New equipment orders from lessors, railroads and shippers are giving railcar suppliers reason to celebrate for the first time since the Great Recession settled in two years ago.

The Federal Railroad Administration is spreading around $50 million in grants to help railroads develop their collision avoidance technologies known as positive train control, with the largest awards

Just three of the seven largest railroads operating in the U.S. added workers in the mid-September to mid-October period, for a net increase of 191 employees in the Class I work force.

Freight volume for U.S. railroads accelerated in the week ending Nov.

The American Trucking Associations petitioned the U.S.

Cash-carrying The Brink's Co. is expanding in Mexico by buying the country's largest secure logistics company, Servicio Pan Americano de Proteccion.

YRC plans to close 31 terminals in the Midwest, South and East, ratcheting back its total terminal network to about 320 facilities.

UPS Freight is speeding its cross-border service to Western Canada, extending its two-day and three-day delivery network to the energy-rich region.

Three YRC Worldwide subsidiaries asked a federal court to toss out ABF Freight System's lawsuit challenging their latest pact with the Teamsters union.

Container truck drivers at India’s Port of Chennai ended a three-day strike Wednesday morning, allowing the movement of ocean freight traffic to and from the country’s second-largest container gateway

Locomotive conductors for Canadian National Railway and other rail workers in Canada who are part of the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference ratified four collective agreements that ended a tense set of

U.S. factory output rose 0.5 percent in October, led by increased output of autos, appliances and business equipment.

ABF Freight System intends to press its lawsuit against the Teamsters union in federal court and is not using its filing to pressure the union to negotiate a separate settlement, President and CEO Wes

Trailer Bridge reported a narrow $6,876 net profit for the third quarter, compared with $1.7 million a year earlier, as the carrier’s revenue fell 3.4 percent to $29.3 million.

New safety regulations will tighten truck capacity for shippers, perhaps dramatically, perhaps as early as the second half of 2011, pushing up truck rates and potentially shifting some freight to othe

The retail price of diesel fuel surged 6.8 cents last week to $3.184 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Major North American railroads in recent weeks saw a slowdown in their loadings of some cargoes important to the factory sector.