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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.

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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.

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.

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

Freight traffic moved higher last week at North America’s major railroads, after a sizable decline in the holiday week ahead of Easter.

Landstar System increased sales 14.4 percent to $548.1 million in the first quarter, increasing the number of truckloads hauled 16.9 percent.

Rising intermodal volume and truckload improvements boosted revenue 17 percent at J.B. Hunt Transport Services, backing claims of a first-quarter freight recovery.

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

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.

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.

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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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Timothy A. Wicks resigned his post as president and chief operating officer of YRC Worldwide today to return to his former employer, United Healthcare.

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.

ABF Freight System agreed to an independent review of its finances as it seeks concessions from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

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.

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.

Canadian Pacific Railway reached a tentative agreement with its track workers in Canada.

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.

The global logistics chief for Duty Free Shops is calling on freight brokers to straighten out gray areas in liability which he says leave his company too easily exposed to injury claims by independen

In the latest sign of the Obama administration’s commitment to inland waterways, the Department of Transportation is launching a formal marine highway program to be funded through dedicated gran

The trucking industry shrank rapidly last year, as the worst financial crisis in decades eliminated billions of dollars in freight revenue and erased years of growth at many carriers.

From one end of the country to the other, shippers of the largest grain crops — soybeans, wheat and especially corn — are gearing up to fill the supply chain needs of late 2010 and 2011.

Knight Transportation is considering the potential acquisition of a fellow truckload carrier that generated about $450 million in revenue last year.

Rhode Island is still drying out from late-March floods that swamped the state and shut down a part of Interstate 95 between New York and Boston, but the Department of Transportation is already sendin

The Department of Justice lodged a proposed consent decree to resolve a federal claim against Union Pacific Railroad for environmental costs, stemming from a 2004 train crash in Texas that released a

The Department of Transportation’s payments to states for work done under economic stimulus projects reached $10.264 billion by March 26, up $286 million from a week earlier.

Averitt Express is the latest less-than-truckload carrier to tigthen transit times in thousands of lanes.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is delaying its CSA 2010 safety program to give trucking companies more time to prepare.

Concern is building that coming climate change legislation in the Senate could propose a tax on motor fuels that would divert some future fees from the Highway Trust Fund.

Trucking giant YRC Worldwide says its daily shipment volume improved month-to-month in the first quarter, but business levels remained depressed from a year ago.

Intermodal loadings by the major North American railroads slowed last week to the weakest levels since snowstorms rocked the freight system in early to mid-February.