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YRC Worldwide's chief operations officer left his union employees no room for doubt about the importance of ratifying wage

Intermodal traffic continued nearly at its peak volume of 2010 in the latest week on North America's major freight railroads.

UPS bought 130 hybrid electric vehicles to add to its growing alternative-fuel vehicle fleet.

DB Schenker completed the integration of the recently acquired Masped units with Hungarocargo and Romtrans Hungaria into Schenker Kft.

Truckload demand is rising although it is still below its peak of mid-June, and capacity remains tight on the West Coast, according to Longbow Research.

New orders for heavy trucks jumped 21.6 percent in September from the previous month, FTR Associates reports.

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A long-running legal challenge to freight rail fuel surcharges by the largest U.S.

Diesel prices across the United States jumped 4.9 cents last week to $3 per gallon, the first time since May 24 the average nationwide price has reached that threshold, according to the U.S.

A New Jersey-based retail distributor is shutting down after losing its sole remaining client, JC Penney.

The American Trucking Associations endorsed legislation for a Goods Movement Trust Fund financed by a 12-cent-a-gallon increase in diesel fuel taxes and is encouraging Congress to pass a similar gasol

One complicating factor in determining how chassis are managed is the way the economics of today’s equipment management fits into terminal and intermodal space.

Despite steady growth in hiring since February, the number of workers employed by for-hire trucking firms lags the level of a year ago and is far down from payroll numbers two years ago, an analysis o

Less-than-truckload carriers are firing rate increases aloft like flares, hoping to secure higher pricing that will keep them afloat in an uncertain economy.

The nation’s freight railroads are gearing up for their biggest test since the Great Recession began nearly three years ago: How to juggle a surge in intermodal traffic as the Christmas peak shi

President Obama’s push for more and faster intercity passenger rail service has come up hard against the needs of freight railroads that control most of the tracks.

As some of the largest ocean carriers prepare to abandon their practice of providing chassis at U.S.

Canadian National Railway reached a tentative three-year agreement late Friday with the union representing 2,700 operating employees, averting a potential strike or lockout on Monday, just as the peak

Greenbriar Equity Group will buy same-day domestic ground and air freight specialist Dynamex for approximately $210 million.

UPS Freight will raise its non-contract rates 5.9 percent Oct. 18, becoming the fourth major less-than-truckload carrier to ask shippers for a general rate increase.

The Department of Transportation in a new report underlined the importance of enhancing and guarding freight rail while developing a national passenger rail system, but the agency left out any mention

Trucking giant YRC Worldwide completed a 1-25 reverse stock split, boosting its per share value from about 25 cents Thursday to above $6 Friday morning.

The Department of Transportation unveiled a group of stimulus grants to spur states to develop inter-city passenger rail corridors, as federal officials try to get a high-priority program moving.

Shares of YRC Worldwide plunged more than 20 percent in trading on Wall Street Thursday after an industry analyst urged investors to "get out of the stock today" when the troubled trucking giant said

With intermodal traffic building toward its autumn peak, major U.S. railroads set a new all-time high in container hauls for the second straight week, said the Association of American Railroads.

The national rail companies of Slovenia, Croatia and Serbia on Oct.1 will launch a joint cargo service to Turkey, aimed at winning back traffic lost to rival routes and transport modes during the Balk

The Teamsters union is offering to extend its current contract with YRC Worldwide for two years and accept dramatically reduced pension contributions in return for an unprecedented say in the manageme

FedEx Freight is raising the ante in what's quickly becoming a reverse less-than-truckload rate war, increasing its general tariff rates 6.9 percent Nov. 1.

Federal officials won’t allow freight railroads to be hurt by government investment in high-speed passenger rail infrastructure, Federal Rail Administrator Joseph Szabo said Wednesday.

The American Trucking Association's for-hire truck tonnage index fell 2.7 percent in August from July, its largest month-to-month drop since March 2009.

The Department of Transportation issued a $50 million rail grant under the economic stimulus law to upgrade track of a freight short line in Vermont, as part of its effort to expand the use of passeng

Bill Zollars, the YRC Worldwide chairman who built the company into the country’s largest industrial trucker and then had to rescue the business from the brink of failure, will retire as chairma

National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Deborah Hersman said it is "long past time" trucking firms took steps to reduce the risk of driver fatigue, after hearing evidence today that acute fatigu

Canadian National Railway offered new contract terms that include cutting the crew size on some trains, said a spokesman for the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference, and the union is preparing a response

A majority of shippers approve of FedEx's plans to merge its two trucking units and do not foresee diverting freight to competitors, a Wolfe Trahan survey finds.

After two weeks of rising prices, diesel last week fell nine-tenths of a cent to an average retail price of $2.951, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

The Los Angeles Harbor Commission Monday approved a schedule by which harbor trucking companies next year must begin phasing employee drivers into their fleets, with 100 percent employee drivers requi

ABF Freight System said today it will raise its general tariff rates 5.9 percent, following an identical increase announced last week by c

Canadian rail shippers are anxiously waiting to see if Canadian National Railway and 2,700 union workers in the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference can reach a mediated agreement and head off a potential

YRC Worldwide reached a tentative agreement with the Teamsters union on a comprehensive financial restructuring to help the struggling trucking giant survive.