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Thousand Islands Bridge to Survey Truckers
William B. Cassidy |
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.
Trucking News
Climate Bill Touts Freight Rail, TIGER Grants
John D. Boyd |
Climate and energy legislation proposed May 12 by Sens.
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Maritime
Air Cargo
Trucking News
Rail News
CN Rail Arranges Carbon Offset Protocol
John D. Boyd |
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.
Rail News
Trucking News
North-American rail
BNSF 1Q Net Jumps 73 Percent
John D. Boyd |
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.
Rail News
North-American rail
Virginia Seeks Tolls on Portion of I-95
William B. Cassidy |
Virginia's new Republican governor is seeking a green light for tolling on a portion of I-95 near the North Carolina border.
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Trucking News
Con-way Freight, TNT Add U.S. Gateways
William B. Cassidy |
Con-way Freight is expanding its international partnership with TNT to bring trans-Atlantic freight to Miami and Los Angeles.
Trucking News
Air Cargo Carriers News
LTL
Court Rebuffs BNSF on Rate Case
John D. Boyd |
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.
Rail News
North-American rail
Tightening Capacity, Improving Economy Triggers Truck Orders
William B. Cassidy |
Demand for new trucks and other equipment is rising as the economy improves and capacity tightens, surveys by two vehicle market research firms report.
Trucking News
J.B. Hunt to Buy 5,000 Navistar Heavy Trucks
William B. Cassidy |
Intermodal trucker J.B. Hunt Transport Services will buy more than 5,000 heavy trucks from Navistar over the next five years.
Trucking News
Zollars Promises Global Solution for YRC
William B. Cassidy |
YRC Worldwide will have a "global solution" to mounting pension and financial obligations within a few months, Chairman, CEO and President William D.
Trucking News
LTL
Hyundai Intermodal Switches to CSX
John D. Boyd |
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.
Rail News
Container lines
North-American rail
Canada Dispatchers Ratify CN Rail Accord
John D. Boyd |
Train dispatchers in Canada for Canadian National Railway have ratified a three-year labor contract that goes back to 2009.
Rail News
North-American rail
Diesel Price Grows for Sixth Straight Week
Thomas L. Gallagher |
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.
Trucking News
Rising Fuel Prices Send Truck Stop Losses Higher
William B. Cassidy |
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
Trucking News
Demand at an ‘Inflection’ Point
By William B. Cassidy |
Buoyed by five straight months of increased consumer spending, domestic shippers and carriers are “cautiously optimistic” about the economic recovery.
Trucking News
Panama May Pay for Higher Tolls
Peter T. Leach |
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.
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YRC Seeks Spring Thaw
William B. Cassidy |
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.
Trucking News
LTL
Trucking Finds a Track
William B. Cassidy |
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.
Trucking News
Rail News
Rail Capacity Starts to Roll
John D. Boyd |
With rail freight traffic improving steadily, capacity is on its way back.
Rail News
Trucking in the Balance
R.G. Edmonson |
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
Trucking News
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Transport, Trade and Regulation News
North American ports
In Court, Port Shifts Legal Arguments
By Bill Mongelluzzo |
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
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Trucking News
CSX Nashville-Memphis Line Flooded Out for Weeks
John D. Boyd |
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
Rail News
North-American rail
Trucking Leads April Gains in Transport Jobs
John D. Boyd |
The U.S.
Trucking News
Trucking labor
Navistar Drops Lawsuit against EPA
William B. Cassidy |
Heavy-truck maker Navistar resolved a dispute with the Environmental Protection Agency over how it certified certain heavy-truck engines as 2010 compliant.
Trucking News
UPS Expands Hybrid Fleet in Houston
William B. Cassidy |
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.
Trucking News
Shipments Up 83 Percent at Echo Global Logistics
William B. Cassidy |
The economic recovery has wheels at Echo Global Logistics.
Trucking News
FreightCar Orders Jump Despite 1Q Loss
John D. Boyd |
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
Rail News
Arpin Group Acquires ATSI
William B. Cassidy |
Global household goods mover Arpin Group acquired Affiliated Transportation Systems and eight related companies, expanding its U.S. military business.
Trucking News
Con-way Narrows Loss as Sales Soar
JOC Staff |
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.
Trucking News
LTL
Pacer Narrows 1Q Loss
John D. Boyd |
Pacer International nearly wiped out its net loss in the first quarter as it reshapes its business plan.
Rail News
Sen. Kohl Insists on Antitrust Change
John D. Boyd |
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
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
North-American rail
ATA Chief Challenges DOT on Modal Shift
John D. Boyd |
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
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Trucking News
Rail News
Ports Detail Differences in Clean Trucks Plans
R.G. Edmonson |
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
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Trucking labor
Rockefeller Sees One Railroad Blocking Reform
John D. Boyd |
Sen.
Rail News
North-American rail
YRC Likely to Survive, Despite 1Q Loss
William B. Cassidy |
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.
Trucking News
LTL
Highway Bill Delay Seen Stretching into 2011
JOC Staff |
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.
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Air Cargo
Trucking News
Rail News
DOT Plan Would Reshape Freight Planning
John D. Boyd |
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
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Maritime
Air Cargo
Trucking News
Rail News
Rockefeller Promises Rail Reform This Year
John D. Boyd |
U.S. rail customers got a strong support message from Sen.
Rail News
Environmental Groups Tout Freight Rail Jobs
John D. Boyd |
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
Rail News
North-American rail
Flooding Disrupts Norfolk Southern Traffic
John D. Boyd |
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
Rail News
North-American rail
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