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In its push to restructure rail freight shipping in the United States, Washington’s political engine can’t decide what that structure should be.

When Daimler executive Juergen Rochert wants to know how the trucking industry is faring, he simply looks at how quickly his customers pay their bills.

Bruce Davenport operates a farm near Kingston, N.Y., where he grows sweet corn, peppers, cantaloupe, kale, broccoli and other produce that he sells to local supermarkets and wholesalers in Albany.

Vessel operators and railroads will shoulder a larger share of the burden as the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach seek to achieve ambitious pollution-reduction goals over the next 13 years.

Mexico will no longer accept a U.S. pilot program as a way of allowing Mexican trucks to operate in the U.S., a senior Mexican diplomat said Friday.

Stronger pricing and freight volume pushed Landstar System's third-quarter revenue up to $623 million, a 24 percent increase from a year ago.

After 14 years of drilling, Swiss engineers Oct.

Intermodal trucker J.B. Hunt Transport Services increased its profit 30.5 percent in the third quarter from a year ago, reporting net earnings of $52.2 million.

For-hire transportation carriers in the U.S. domestic market handled 0.6 percent less volume in ton-miles in August than in July, the Transportation Department said.

U.S.-based heavy equipment maker Caterpillar is expanding its logistics and manufacturing operations overseas with new ventures in Australia, South Africa and China.

Integrated Freight is expanding its trucking operations in the Midwest by acquiring M. Bruenger Trucking, Wichita, Kan., for approximately $11 million.

September was the strongest month since springtime for North American railcar owners shrinking their lists of idle equipment as gains in both carload and intermodal traffic prompted operators to activ

Russia's largest rail container operator, TransContainer, plans to raise up to $525 million from an initial public offering on the London Stock Exchange before the end of the year.

CSX Transportation, the eastern U.S.

Clean-air regulations affecting heavy-duty trucks and 53-foot trailers in California will continue in force no matter what happens in the Nov.

Diesel prices soared 6.6 cents last week to $3.066 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

A dissident Teamster who started her career as a warehouse worker and truck driver is challenging James P. Hoffa for the top job in the Teamsters union.

Trucking employment fell slightly in September, ending a six-month growth streak, according to preliminary data from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.

French Dockworkers Oct. 12 joined a 24-hour nationwide protest, crippling major ports as well as rail and air transport in Europe's second largest economy.

Strong loadings of truck trailers by North American railroads point to continued momentum in the overall intermodal market, which is dominated by stackable containers, says a report from BB&T Capital

President Obama called Monday for sweeping investment in infrastructure, putting new urgency to his pledge of more funding and jobs through a broad national plan for transportation.

Union Pacific Railroad and CenterPoint Properties on Oct. 18 will open the 785-acre Joliet Intermodal Terminal southwest of Chicago.

North America’s major railroads hauled more motor vehicles and other types of large equipment in the last half of September than any other time this year, as volume keeps rising in a key cargo g

Faiveley Transport USA and Amsted Rail early this month finalized their joint venture, Amsted Rail-Faiveley LLC, based in Greenville, South Carolina.

In WTO Rulings, It’s China, 2; US, 0

Canadian rail freight shippers, shaken early this month when Canadian National Railway narrowly averted a strike at the height of the peak shipping season, want to make sure such a potentially crippli

William D. Zollars will end his career at YRC Worldwide as he began it, with the reorganization of a trucking giant struggling to adapt to a changing market.

Choptank Transport works with some of the largest food shippers in the nation, but most of its customers are small businesses looking to expand into new markets.

For importers of holiday merchandise, it was Christmas in August as well as July.

There are some temperature-controlled commodities even a specialist such as Choptank Transport won’t touch.

In a matter of months, William D. Zollars is expected to vacate the chairman’s office at YRC Worldwide, leaving his successor to radically restructure the trucking enterprise.

It’s impossible to read the Obama administration’s latest take on freight transportation policy without seeing its clear aim: to put a bigger share of containers and trailers on trains, ge

There’s perishable and then there is really perishable. Rainier cherries, the cream of the cherry crop, are generally put in the second category and given kid-glove treatment during transport.

Refrigerated trucking isn’t what it used to be, and that’s a good thing for Choptank Transport, a third-party specialist in temperature-controlled transportation.

Whoever YRC Worldwide picks as its next chairman will have to answer to a higher authority: the Teamsters union.

CSX Transportation and New York-New Jersey port officials say the opening of a section of track to trains carrying double-stacked, high-cube containers will increase the railroad's and port's reach in

Canadian National Railway said it is adding railcars and taking other steps to meet supply chain needs of steel producing customers in Canada, the second time in a week that CN has unveiled new effort

Canadian Pacific Railway and Teck Resources, its largest coal shipper, agreed to terms on a 10-year deal for CP to carry Teck’s metallurgical coal to export terminals.

Canadian shippers saw overall ground transportation costs rise 3 percent month-to-month in July, according to the latest Canadian General Freight Index.

With an increase in chemical tankcar shipments that make up their largest commodity category, North America’s regional and short line railroads set back-to-back 2010 volume peaks in the last two weeks