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A survey next month aims to discover what the trucks that cross the Thousand Islands Bridge each day between the United States and Canada are carrying.

Climate and energy legislation proposed May 12 by Sens.

Canadian National Railway worked out a “modal shift protocol” with a British Columbia firm that markets carbon offsets, to count freight that shifts off trucks onto rail.

BNSF Railway saw its profit surge 73 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier to $506 million, as revenue grew 13 percent to $3.864 billion.

Virginia's new Republican governor is seeking a green light for tolling on a portion of I-95 near the North Carolina border.

Con-way Freight is expanding its international partnership with TNT to bring trans-Atlantic freight to Miami and Los Angeles.

BNSF Railway did not get much satisfaction in fighting a major coal rate judgment against it by the Surface Transportation Board, as the U.S. Court of Appeals largely backed the STB decision.

Demand for new trucks and other equipment is rising as the economy improves and capacity tightens, surveys by two vehicle market research firms report.

Intermodal trucker J.B. Hunt Transport Services will buy more than 5,000 heavy trucks from Navistar over the next five years.

YRC Worldwide will have a "global solution" to mounting pension and financial obligations within a few months, Chairman, CEO and President William D.

Hyundai Intermodal, a unit of Hyundai Merchant Marine, will switch from Norfolk Southern to CSX Transportation as its eastern-U.S. railroad partner beginning June 1.

Train dispatchers in Canada for Canadian National Railway have ratified a three-year labor contract that goes back to 2009.

The national average price of diesel fuel grew for the sixth straight week, climbing half-a-cent to $3.127 per gallon, the highest price in 18 months, the U.S.

In a stark sign of the cloud rising fuel costs are casting over the trucking industry, truck stop operator TravelCenters of America says its net loss grew 56 percent in the first quarter to $41.2 mill

Buoyed by five straight months of increased consumer spending, domestic shippers and carriers are “cautiously optimistic” about the economic recovery.

It certainly isn’t the first time ocean carriers and importers have disagreed, and it won’t be the last, but the outcome could determine the fate of U.S.

YRC Worldwide sees signs of recovery in the freight that hit its docks in March and April, but the surge came too late to stave off a steep first quarter loss.

Intermodal rail is extending its reach into areas of the supply chain long dominated by trucking, and not just over-the-road long-haul truckload carriage.

With rail freight traffic improving steadily, capacity is on its way back.

The prospects for changing harbor trucking regulation in the United States rest with Congress, but groups fighting efforts to change federal law say the impact of any changes would hardly end at port

From its inception two years ago, the American Trucking Associations’ challenge to the Port of Los Angeles clean-trucks program drew sharp rhetoric in Southern California over whether the respon

Last weekend killer storms that flooded out Nashville and other parts of Tennessee and killed at least 30 people in several states will also keep a CSX Transportation line between Nashville and Memphi

The U.S.

Heavy-truck maker Navistar resolved a dispute with the Environmental Protection Agency over how it certified certain heavy-truck engines as 2010 compliant.

UPS put 25 hybrid electric package cars on the streets of Houston today as part of its plan to deploy 200 hybrid trucks in eight U.S. cities.

The economic recovery has wheels at Echo Global Logistics.

FreightCar America saw first-quarter orders for future railcars surge to 3,656 units from just 339 a year earlier and 185 in the final 2009 period, which pointed to an improving outlook for the compan

Global household goods mover Arpin Group acquired Affiliated Transportation Systems and eight related companies, expanding its U.S. military business.

Con-way reported a $4 million net loss for the first quarter, including a $3.2 million operating loss at Con-way Freight, despite soaring freight volume.

Pacer International nearly wiped out its net loss in the first quarter as it reshapes its business plan.

Pending legislation in the Senate to add shipper-friendly competition rules on the rail industry won’t move ahead unless it also strips railroads of exemptions they enjoy from antitrust law, sai

The head of the American Trucking Associations, in a sharply worded letter to Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, warns that a new government focus on shifting freight off trucks is based on misinfor

Port executives on Wednesday spelled out the differences between the port of Los Angeles truck concession agreements and the port of Long Beach registration agreements in testimony before the House Co

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YRC Worldwide has enough support to survive 2010, despite a first quarter loss of more than a quarter of a billion dollars, transportation investment analysts said today.

It may be 2011 before Congress passes a surface transportation bill, says Rep. John Mica, R-Fla., ranking Republican on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

A proposed long-term vision to guide the Department of Transportation would focus on major freight system corridors, curb carbon use by freight operations and use more multi-jurisdiction planning inst

U.S. rail customers got a strong support message from Sen.

Declaring that “freight rail jobs are green jobs,” a report by the Blue Green Alliance and the Economic Policy Institute urges policy makers to give the rail industry tax breaks it seeks t

Norfolk Southern Railway is warning customers to expect significant flood delays for shipments that normally use a rail line running from Memphis, Tenn., on the Mississippi River to Sheffield, Ala., o