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Truck and engine manufacturers supporting national fuel economy standards for heavy trucks are already working on higher-mileage powertrains and vehicles.

President Obama is putting the trucking industry on the road to greater fuel efficiency with an order for mileage standards for heavy-duty trucks.

Net orders for trailers in April dropped 13 percent from March, according to ACT Research, as trucking companies signaled they are growing uncertain about the strength of an economic recovery.

The head of Norfolk Southern Railway said he is finding nothing to like in the rail competition legislation pending in the Senate, after passage months ago by the Commerce, Science and Transportation

Florida East Coast Railway said James R. Hertwig will become president of that carrier starting July 1, after he leaves his current position as president of CSX Intermodal.

Truck tonnage climbed to its highest level since September 2008, the brink of the financial crisis that precipitated the recession, a trucking industry index shows.

The pace of recovery is slowing for truckload carriers, as truck capacity stabilizes at a lower level, according to the May 28 Morgan Stanley Truckload Freight Index.

Retirees in multiemployer pension plans whose former companies failed shouldn't be penalized by pension reform, a pension expert said at a Senate hearing yesterday.

Barge and railcar builder Greenbrier is slowing barge output by adopting a four-day workweek for its Gunderson marine operations in Portland, Ore., citing market uncertainty from the Gulf oil spill an

A Chicago-area pension fund that faced insolvency by 2013 will be split in two, with workers from bankrupt firms receiving benefits from the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.

With public budgets stretched thin, governments should be doing more to encourage private investment in needed infrastructure, the CEO of Neptune Orient Lines told an international panel of transport

The Teamsters union’s Central States pension fund faces insolvency within 10 to 15 years unless Congress acts to stabilize the fund, its executive director said this week.

Chicago is not only the nation’s crossroads, but its chokepoint.

Five states received nearly $80 million in federal grants for high-speed rail projects today from the Department of Transportation.

There’s bipartisan support for quick passage of a comprehensive transportation bill, but members of the House Transportation Infrastructure Committee on Wednesday demonstrated there is still a w

Virginia broke ground Wednesday on a control center for high occupancy toll lanes on a stretch of the I-495 Capital Beltway that ranks as one of the worst U.S. congestion bottlenecks.

Speed and location data collected from approximately 650,000 trucks is being used to pinpoint congestion hotspots nationwide and could play a key role in infrastructure planning and funding.

The U.S. Export-Bank is backing a $1.7 million loan for railroad equipment supplier Holland L.P. to sell two in-track welding systems to a customer in Brazil.

Work rules spelled out in contracts between owner-operator truckers and drayage companies may not provide the legal grounding to maintain the truckers’ status as independent contractors at U.S.

Net orders for heavy-duty trucks shot up 91 percent in April, as fleets began placing orders for trucks compliant with 2010 federal emissions rules, ACT Research said.

In a bold bid to cover U.S.

CSX Transportation is finally reopening for overnight service a 200-mile Tennessee rail line between Nashville and Memphis, which had been closed since severe storms at the start of May and caused CSX

Teamsters at ABF Freight System rejected a 15 percent wage cut by a solid majority, sending the less-than-truckload carrier and union back to the negotiating table.

The average price of diesel across the country fell 7.3 cents per gallon, the second straight weekly drop and the sharpest decline since March 2009, the U.S. Department of Energy reported Monday.

The Teamsters union and YRC Worldwide said they will form two joint labor-management committees to discuss the trucking operator's participation in union pension funds and "ways to enhance YRCW's

The global economic crisis reduced greenhouse gas emissions from transportation industry sources worldwide, but that reduction isn’t expected to last long.

Canadian Pacific Railway is raising by about $66 million the amount it plans to spend on capital improvements this year, for a new spending program that ranges between $708 million and $756 million.

The battle over who will drive the trucks in clean-air programs being rolled out at ports across the country is now being waged on three fronts — federal court in Los Angeles, a U.S.

When it takes over operation of APM Terminals’ automated container terminal in Portsmouth this summer, the Virginia Port Authority will position itself to become one of the nation’s bigges

When a shipment absolutely, positively has to arrive no later than yesterday, what do shippers do? First they pray . . . then they call an expedited trucking company.

The Port of Vancouver, British Columbia, is helping lead a charge among Canadian ports and shippers frustrated by a lack of competition they say leaves them with inadequate intermodal rail service.

If you thrive in a stable work environment defined by regular day-to-day routines, please don’t consider a career in expedited trucking.

Profit is paving the way to expansion at Old Dominion Freight Line.

Data Quality isn’t just the concern of billion-dollar carriers such as U.S. Xpress Enterprises.

In the Obama administration’s vision for a future with free-flowing highways, cleaner air in cities and ports and lower climate-heating carbon emissions, intermodal rail leads the way.

Trucking companies rely on more than rubber and fuel to operate; data from operations, sales, accounting and maintenance are vital to their services.

Expedited trucking is a premium service, commanding a premium price. But that price might not be as high as shippers think, carrier executives said.

The American Trucking Associations supports President Obama’s call for the first national fuel-economy standards for medium- and heavy-duty trucks.

FedEx Ground is tightening its standards for independent contractors, responding to concerns raised by several states, Dow Jones Newswires reports.

President Obama signed a presidential order today that for the first time would establish fuel economy standards and greenhouse gas emissions limits for heavy-duty and medium trucks, starting in 2014.