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A key component of CSX Transportation's northern tier strategy will come into play in early 2011 with the opening of the Northwest Ohio Intermodal Terminal.

The senator most identified with trying to strip railroads of their limited exemption to antitrust challenges says if a broad rail reform bill stumbles in Congress he will use "any other means possibl

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Struggling with rising freight volume and continuing losses, FedEx will merge its FedEx Freight and FedEx National LTL networks, closing as many as 100 facilities.

Activist rail shippers who want Congress to toughen freight rail oversight say a new Senate committ

Fedex doubled its net profit in its quarter ending Aug. 31 to $380 million on strong expansion in international express shipping, but the company issued a forecast for slower global economic growth.

The number of people killed in motor vehicle crashes dropped to 33,808 in 2009, the lowest number since 1950, says the Department of Transportation.

The railroad industry sharply rejected criticisms of railroad finances by a new report from the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee and warned that efforts to slap new regulations on

The Surface Transportation Board is poised to mount a three-pronged regulatory reform effort that could expand its activism on railroad-shipper disputes and implement some measures that are in the sta

YRC Worldwide will pay $10 million to settle racial harassment claims at two Chicago-area terminals, the U

A national rail plan envisioned by the Obama administration must be preceded by shipper-supportive changes in rail competition rules either through a change in law or by regulatory action, said Sen.

The second-highest official at the Department of Transportation told senators that increasing the share of freight hauled by railroads "could be a cost-effective approach to meeting our stated st

Swift Transportation's planned public offering got a boost Sept. 15 when Moody's Investors Service raised the truckload carrier's ratings outlook to positive.

A new report by staff of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee says major railroads are financially strong and enjoying "robust" pricing power, but are telling regulators

Short-haul and dedicated trucking operator James Brown Trucking purchased Tennessee-based Schrader Trucking, expanding its capacity and reach.

The Spanish government unveiled a $9.75 billion investment plan to modernize the nation's rail freight network and more than double rail cargo traffic by 2020.

DB Schenker Logistics is investing $87.5 million on the construction of a multi-modal hub and corporate office near Helsinki airport in Finland.

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Truckload carriers are reporting increasing demand for freight services and higher rates this month, a sign there may still be life in trucking's fall peak season.

Two shipper and trucking groups are merging to marshal their efforts to raise heavy truck weight limits to 97,000 pounds through legislative action on Capitol Hill.

The average price of diesel fuel last week edged up 1.2 cents to $2.943 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, following four consecutive weeks of falling prices.

Two activist rail shipper groups say they see new signs that the Senate could move on long-dormant rail competition legislation in the final months of the current Congress.

Part of the Commodity Classification Standards Board’s mission is to re-examine classifications when the characteristics of goods may have changed, triggering changes in the transportation profi

Wall Street might be bearish on the economy, but truckers are bullish on Wall Street.

From a helicopter over CenterPoint Properties’ 6,000-acre integrated intermodal rail logistics hub at Joliet, Ill., about 40 miles southwest of Chicago, the structure that stands out above all o

The Teamsters union is telling workers at YRC Worldwide that it will only support concessions sought by the financially troubled trucking company if they come with a “comprehensive restructuring

New rail regulatory legislation appears dead for this Congress, according to the top executive for Norfolk Southern Railway.

Truckload spot rates are “flattening out” heading into the fall after rising sharply in the second quarter, according to a trucking industry executive, but longer-term contract rates are likely on the

Kansas City Southern carried 700 U.S.-bound containers from Mexico’s Port of Lazaro Cardenas during August and expects volume on the route to continue to grow, a KCS executive said.

A freight railroad official with strong ties to shipping out of Mexico says he is seeing some offshore manufacturing shift back to North America as labor costs rise in China.

North American railcar owners took 10,759 parked freight cars out of storage during August, leaving 348,712 or 22.7 percent of the total continental fleet idled as of Sept. 1.

Canadian Pacific Railway expanded its ability to carry intermodal cars on trains 45 percent over the past two years, a company official says, and expects more gains as part of a plan to add capacity b

Truckload carrier Knight Transportation is generating enough profit to update its fleet but sees few current possibilities for growth through acquisition, the company’s chief financial officer s

ABF Freight System is waging a two-front campaign to cut its labor costs by negotiating with the Teamsters about contract concessions and lobbying Congress for legislation to ease the burden unionized

When the Surface Transportation Board stripped antitrust immunity from truck freight classification in 2007, hope spread that a less adversarial, more cooperative carrier-shipper relationship would em

North America’s largest railroads saw their bulk commodity carloads hit a second consecutive 2010 peak in the week ending Sept.

After three years of enlarging Appalachian Mountain tunnels, Norfolk Southern Railway opened its Heartland Corridor to double-stack operations Thursday between Virginia's seaport area and big Midwest

Shippers can expect expedited general rate increases from less-than-truckload carriers, trucking officials at an investor conference in New York said.

U.S. railroads hauled more bulk railcar loads and intermodal containers or trailers in August than any time since the autumn of 2008, said the Association of American Railroads.

The National Association of Manufacturers, a major industrial lobbying group in Washington, D.C., launched an advertising campaign to head off new energy taxes after