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So much for the Democrats’ transportation plans.

Pitt Ohio Express is changing its name and its brand to reflect a broader business that goes "beyond the road" and the company's less-than-truckload roots.

Shortly after al Qaeda affiliates in Yemen tried to blow UPS and FedEx cargo planes out of the sky, Boyd Stephenson spoke with trucking executives concerned about trucking security and the potential f

Less-than-truckload carriers are turning away unprofitable freight and refining networks to lower costs and gain efficiency, but shippers have largely held off the kind of price hikes those carriers s

It’s beginning to look at lot like Christmas in the intermodal business.

House Republicans did not wait for the Nov. 2 election to lay down markers for how they may change federal spending under the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

There is only a "slim" chance the appellate court handling the Port of Los Angeles clean-truck case will agree with U.S.

In a sign of growing strength in rail freight demand, North American railcar leasing firms and other car owners pulled 12,799 more railcars out of storage in October, said the Association of American

President Obama's deficit cutting panel delivered plans for transportation policy that include a gradual 15-cent increase in federal fuel taxes to shore up the Highway Trust Fund and a proposal that t

A shipper organization wants the Obama administration to release rewritten hours-of-service rules for truck drivers, kept under wraps since July.

The economy may be slowing, but truck demand is picking up, and will double by 2013, according to ACT Research.

The American Trucking Associations recruited a top Republican Senate staffer to lead its advocacy efforts on Capitol Hill, including its campaign to secure reauthorization of the surface transportatio

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood told the governors-elect of Wisconsin and Ohio they cannot redirect federal passenger rail grants to other uses once they take office, so the Department of Transpor

Railcar and barge builder Greenbrier Companies earned a $7.7 million net profit in its fiscal fourth quarter that ended Aug.

International Longshoremen’s Association official Harold Daggett said he’s ready for “war” with container lines transferring intermodal chassis service to companies outside the

BNSF Railway presented achievement awards to three shortline railroads at the annual Shortline conference in Grapevine, Texas.

Truckload demand increased and capacity tightened in the first week of November following three straight weeks of decline, according to Longbow Research.

The Ceridian-UCLA Pulse of Commerce Index fell 0.6 percent in October, pointing to a drop in trucking activity in what's typically a strong month for truck traffic.

Wisconsin’s Republican governor-elect, Scott Walker, campaigned and won on a pledge to kill a planned Madison-Milwaukee passenger rail line that drew a large federal grant.

The national average retail price of diesel jumped 4.9 cents to $3.116 per gallon in the week ending Nov. 8, according to the U.S.

Old Dominion Freight Line will raise its base rates about 4.9 percent Nov. 15, joining several less-than-truckload carriers pursuing early general rate increases.

Swift Transportation faces a class-action lawsuit alleging the nation's largest truckload carrier underpaid its truck drivers for at least a dozen years.

Union Pacific Railroad tentatively plans to increase its capital spending on network repairs and growth projects 25 percent in 2011 to $3.25 billion, company officials said.

Southeastern short-haul carrier Brown Trucking acquired West Brothers' Companies, expanding its capacity and adding new lines of business.

BNSF Railway's net income in the third quarter rose 44.7 percent from a year earlier to $706 million, as revenue rose 22.1 percent to $4.391 billion.

It’s a cautious time for railroads. The economy, senior executives say, is too weak to plan for much growth in the year ahead.

The Obama administration isn’t letting a little politics-altering event like midterm elections get in the way of its passenger rail program.

The labor concessions approved by 62 percent of YRC Teamsters employees eliminate fears of an imminent shutdown at the nation’s largest trucking operator, both at its nationwide less-than-truckl

Which carriers won last year’s less-than-truckload price war? Based on the financial results across the industry, it was those who refused to fight.

Winning a third round of concessions from its Teamsters employees gave YRC Worldwide its best shot yet at survival, extending until 2015 wage and benefit cuts it won last year and sharply reducing its

The gap between new and used truck prices is widening, and that may further restrict truck capacity in coming years as carriers replace aging equipment.

The battle between the Teamsters union and the American Trucking Associations will drag out into next year, but the rules of engagement could change significantly.

BNSF Railway promoted Greg Fox to executive vice president for operations, reporting to Carl Ice, whose promotion to the newly created pos

This year's unexpectedly strong peak season for intermodal traffic suggests that shippers are getting ready for lots of packages under the Christmas tree, according to the Intermodal Association of No

What is shaping up to be the nation's first of the targeted shared-use rail corridors for higher-speed passenger and freight operations is moving into a new phase in Illinois.

In 2011, capacity will be king.

The long reorganization of long-haul less-than-truckload carrier YRC is still a work in progress, as the company looks to consolidate by shedding 50 terminals.

A trucking company charged with falsifying driver work records must install electronic onboard recorders in 700 trucks or pay almost $82,000 in civil fines.

YRC Worldwide reported a $62 million third-quarter net loss as revenue dropped 5.7 percent from a year ago at the nation's largest less-than-truckload operator.

Union Pacific Railroad expects growing volume, higher rates and new pricing on expiring contracts with shippers to push annual revenue up 6 to 8 percent per year over the next five years, Chief Financ