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ABF, Teamsters Agree to 15 Percent Wage Cut
William B. Cassidy |
Workers at ABF Freight System will give up 15 percent of their wages but retain full pension benefits under a tentative concession plan approved today by local Teamster leaders.
Trucking News
LTL
Trucking labor
Heavy Truck Orders Jump 28 Percent
William B. Cassidy |
Heavy truck orders rose 28 percent year-over-year in March to 11,285 units, following stronger than anticipated sales in February, ACT Research reported today.
Trucking News
Freightliner Parent, UAW Reach Agreement
William B. Cassidy |
Daimler Trucks North America and the United Auto Workers reached agreement on contracts covering employees at three U.S. plants.
Trucking News
Truckload Rates Escalate
JOC Staff |
The only dispute in the truckload industry over the direction of rates this spring is whether pricing is going up fast or very fast.
Trucking News
Truck brokers
Testing the Waters
William B. Cassidy |
As a trucker, Pat Quinn may have felt like a fish out of water at a marine highways conference focused on short-sea shipping.
Trucking News
Maritime
Rail News
FHA Says ‘No’ to I-80 Tolls
John D. Boyd |
Truckers got a BIG BREAK — and Pennsylvania a big hole in its budget — when federal authorities said no to a state proposal to slap tolls on east-west Interstate 80.
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Trucking News
Seed Money for Tech
John D. Boyd |
The Federal Railroad Administration unveiled the government’s first funding pool specifically for the collision avoidance and locomotive remote control systems that U.S.
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Rail News
Budding Freight Growth
John D. Boyd |
With the transportation industry searching last year for any “green shoots” to hint at a recovery in the freight sector, this year there are plenty of saplings.
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Trucking News
Rail News
Trucking labor
Floating a Rail Fix, Too
John D. Boyd |
The U.S. Maritime Administration’s plan to construct marine highways won’t just take pressure off roads.
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Maritime
Rail News
Selling Short-Sea to Shippers
William B. Cassidy |
Short-sea shipping advocates may have the Department of Transportation’s ear, but they still need to convince shippers their concept will float.
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Maritime
Trucking News
ABF Freight, Teamsters Reach Tentative Agreement
JOC Staff |
ABF Freight System reached a tentative agreement on new contract terms with the Teamsters union that will likely include wage and work concessions aimed at cutting the trucking company’s operati
Trucking News
LTL
Trucking labor
Electro-Motive Opens Refit Center in Mexico
John D. Boyd |
Electro-Motive Diesel, one of the two largest suppliers of locomotives to the freight industry, cut a ribbon this week on a traction motor maintenance and overhaul facility in San Luis Potosi, Mexico.
Rail News
Hoffa Backs Bid to Block Mexican Trucks
William B. Cassidy |
Teamsters General President James P.
Trucking News
Short Line Volume Spikes
John D. Boyd |
A surge in chemicals and other industrial cargoes, plus strength in construction materials pushed weekly traffic at small railroads in North America to the highest level in more than a year.
Rail News
Housing Construction Shows Life
Joseph Bonney |
U.S.
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Trucking News
North-American rail
Canadian National Promises Better Attitude
Courtney Tower |
OTTAWA — Canadian National Railway is sorry, and it promises to mend its hard-nosed ways with shippers and intermodal partners and will not, in the future, look out only for itself.
Rail News
North-American rail
Hub Expands Domestic Container Fleet
John D. Boyd |
North American intermodal service provider Hub Group is buying 2,000 new 53-foot domestic containers for about $19.2 million, which would increase its fleet of those boxes by a third.
Rail News
Forwarding
Clean Trucks Called Too Costly for Contractors
Bill Mongelluzzo |
Environmental and labor interests warned Thursday that the clean-air benefits being realized today by the introduction of thousands of new trucks in Los Angeles-Long Beach harbor will be lost in subse
Maritime
Forwarding
Trucking labor
Large Railroads See Rebound in Weekly Traffic
John D. Boyd |
Freight traffic moved higher last week at North America’s major railroads, after a sizable decline in the holiday week ahead of Easter.
Rail News
North-American rail
Landstar Profit up 45 Percent on Higher Volume
JOC Staff |
Landstar System increased sales 14.4 percent to $548.1 million in the first quarter, increasing the number of truckloads hauled 16.9 percent.
Trucking News
Truck brokers
Intermodal Surge Lifts J.B. Hunt Transport
JOC Staff |
Rising intermodal volume and truckload improvements boosted revenue 17 percent at J.B. Hunt Transport Services, backing claims of a first-quarter freight recovery.
Trucking News
Rail News
DOT Official Says No to Fuel Tax Hike
John D. Boyd |
The Department of Transportation’s chief financial officer became the latest administration official to speak out against raising motor fuel taxes to bolster federal revenue and infrastructure s
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
Trucking News
Rail News
House Members Rip Cross-Border Trucking
William B. Cassidy |
Instead of working on a new cross-border trucking program with Mexico, some members of Congress want the United States to renegotiate the North America Free Trade Agreement.
Trucking News
U.S. Rail Carloads Post First Monthly Rise Since 2008
John D. Boyd |
For the first time since July 2008, major U.S. railroads in March saw a monthly gain in freight carloadings over the same period a year earlier.
Rail News
North-American rail
CSX Hikes Crash Avoidance Costs to $1.2 Billion
John D. Boyd |
Eastern-U.S.
Rail News
North-American rail
Rails Discussing Reform with Congress
John D. Boyd |
Railroad officials are engaged in “good” talks in Congress on legislation that would reauthorize the Surface Transportation Board and revamp key rail regulations, said Michael Ward, the ch
Rail News
North-American rail
DOT Stimulus Spending Reaches $10.4 Billion
John D. Boyd |
Disbursements by the Department of Transportation under the economic stimulus law reached $10.437 billion as of March 31, an increase of about $1 billion from February to pay for projects dominated by
Transport, Trade and Regulation News
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Truckload Spot Shipments Rocket in March
William B. Cassidy |
Truckload spot market freight volume reached pre-recession levels in March, climbing 259 percent from a year ago and 14 percent from March 2008, according to TransCore’s North American Freight I
Trucking News
CSX Rates to Rise 4 to 5 Percent in 2010
John D. Boyd |
CSX Transportation is sticking with its earlier guidance to see core pricing gains of 4 to 5 percent during 2010 although its first-quarter price gains were at the top of that range.
Rail News
North-American rail
Profit Falls at Russian Rail Carrier Globaltrans
Bruce Barnard |
Globaltrans, Russia's biggest private rail freight operator, said 2009 profit fell 15 percent from a year ago even as traffic hit an all time high in a shrinking market.
Rail News
Domestic Intermodal Primed for Growth
Bill Mongelluzzo |
Domestic intermodal rail weathered the economic recession better than most transportation modes, and the industry appears now to be on the verge of experiencing unprecedented growth.
Rail News
LTL
North-American rail
CSX Net Rises 24 Percent to $306 Million
John D. Boyd |
Eastern-U.S. railroad CSX Transportation saw first-quarter profit grow 24 percent from a year earlier to $306 million, as it boosted receipts and cut expenses.
Rail News
North-American rail
Norfolk Southern Tests Biodiesel
John D. Boyd |
Norfolk Southern Railway and Electro-Motive Diesel will run “extensive” tests of biodiesel fuel, monitoring the use of two blends in both linehaul and switcher locomotive units.
Rail News
North-American rail
Wicks Resigns at YRC Worldwide
William B. Cassidy |
Timothy A. Wicks resigned his post as president and chief operating officer of YRC Worldwide today to return to his former employer, United Healthcare.
Trucking News
LTL
Short Line Traffic Drops
John D. Boyd |
Most cargoes on small railroads slid in recent weeks to the lowest volume since the snowstorm-socked period ending Feb. 20, according to RMI’s RailConnect index.
Rail News
ABF, Teamsters Enter Concession Talks
William B. Cassidy |
ABF Freight System agreed to an independent review of its finances as it seeks concessions from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
Trucking News
LTL
Trucking labor
Fuel Marketers Pump Congress for Biodiesel Credit
William B. Cassidy |
Fuel marketers and resellers Monday urged Congress to restore a biodiesel tax credit that expired at the end of 2009, depressing production and raising the price of biodiesel.
Trucking News
Diesel Jumps 5.4 Cents in Second Steep Climb
Thomas L. Gallagher |
Large increases in the last two weeks brought the average price of diesel to $3.069 per gallon, according to a report Monday from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Trucking News
Canadian Pacific, Track Workers Reach Deal
John D. Boyd |
Canadian Pacific Railway reached a tentative agreement with its track workers in Canada.
Rail News
North-American rail
Brokers Seek Exporter Imbalance Solution
JOC Staff |
Freight brokers are studying whether they can help correct a steep imbalance in transportation equipment availability that is hurting efforts of U.S. exporters to get goods to overseas markets.
Rail News
Truck brokers
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