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The Obama administration is forming a national freight transportation policy that can be boiled down to one concept: Get more trucks off the roads.

Specialized truckload carrier Prime raised its minimum pay for owner-operators last month to 95 cents a mile, as growing freight traffic sparks higher demand for drivers.

The select group of trucking companies with more than a billion dollars in annual revenue shrank last year, as four companies fell below the revenue threshold.

Real estate developer CenterPoint Properties signed a build-to-suit lease with a chemical manufacturer attracted by rail service provided by Union Pacific.

Canadian National Railway sold a section of track to a government-owned agency responsible for the Toronto area transportation network.

More than 5,000 trucking companies will be required to install electronic on-board recorders in their trucks, the Department of Transportation said Friday.

March brought increases in employment across U.S. surface transportation industries, with mild job gains in trucking, rail and waterborne commerce breaking a long downtrend during the recession.

Canadian Pacific Railway reached a new one-year agreement with Teck Coal, a major shipper of high-heat coal needed for steelmaking furnaces, to haul the fuel from Teck’s mines in southeastern Br

The two largest trucking businesses increased their market share last year despite falling revenue, holding onto business better than many of their smaller competitors.

Traffic jumped at the largest North American railroads as March ended, powered by shipments of finished vehicles and equipment along with materials at earlier stages from metallic ores to metal produc

Flooding after torrential rains left parts of Interstate 95 in Rhode Island under more than three feet of water Wednesday and Thursday.

Specialized truckload carrier Prime managed to do something none of the 49 other top trucking companies accomplished in 2009: Increase its revenue.

Demand for Class 8 heavy trucks will increase just 3 percent this year, but shoot up more than 50 percent in 2011, research firm FTR Associates says.

The Federal Railroad Administration will start taking applications this week from states for an additional $115 million in planning and construction project funds, which FRA will target to support the

A congressional panel set a hearing for May 5 on proposals to allow the economic regulation of harbor trucking, an issue that has sharply divided shippers and trade groups from a handful of ports and

Truckload operator Knight Transportation is working on the potential acquisition of a fellow carrier that generated $450 million in revenue last year.

The Department of Transportation proposed a rule Wednesday that would make permanent a two-month-old ban on cell-phone texting by truck and bus drivers.

U.S. sales of new automobiles are strengthening for all the largest car manufacturers, and generating sharp increases in shipments for materials, car parts and finished vehicles.

Intermodal services firm Pacer International is replacing its chief financial and commercial officers as it continues a transition in its business plan after major shifts in 2009.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood tapped 10 leading analysts representing the freight industry, state highway agencies and academia to advise his Department on data it gathers.

Trade using surface transportation between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement partners Canada and Mexico soared 19.5 percent from January 2009 to January 2010 in the largest

Rail and construction industry supplier L.B. Foster bought key bridge-building assets of Interlocking Deck Systems International for nearly $7 million.

FedEx Express today unveiled plans to test its first all-electric parcel delivery vans, plugging two of four test trucks into its Los Angeles-area fleet in June.

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Slipping an average of seven-tenths of a cent across the country, the price of diesel ended a five-week climb at $2.939 per gallon Monday, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Increased truckload freight demand is showing up in surging trailer sales, says ACT Research.

Con-way Freight and TNT are expanding their trans-Atlantic partnership to include shipping U.S. exports to Europe, targeting freight shipments weighing more than 150 pounds.

Union Pacific Railroad “will continue to generate core price increases of roughly 4-6 percent over the next few years,” said stock analyst Lee A. Klaskow of Longbow Research.

Conflict is swirling around the crash-avoidance technology known as positive train control.

The less-than-truckload sector is yielding to the demands of yield, carrier executives insist, turning from price-cutting aimed at rapidly gaining market share to rebuilding profit.

It may not be clear when the Senate might vote on a committee bill to tighten competition rules for freight railroads, but a key lawmaker says disgruntled rail executives know the legislation is

More trucking company failures and higher truckload rates may be coming sooner than many shippers think.

When it comes to measuring productivity at marine terminals, The Tioga Group has some advice: Look to the gates, not the acres.

Leadership takes many shapes and forms. It can be controversial and unpopular. It can be innovative and revolutionary. It can be understated or in-your-face aggressive.

A Maine railroad’s plans to shut down 233 miles of track has state and federal officials scrambling to find ways to keep it operating for 22 freight shippers.

Trucking executives are worried about a driver shortage, but some drivers may be more worried about keeping their jobs.

Mid-March loadings of basic road and site construction materials by the largest U.S.-owned railroads reached their highest levels since August.

North America’s short line railroads saw traffic ebb slightly for the week ending March 20 from the prior seven days, but carriers reporting to the RMI RailConnect index still had their third co

Truck tonnage increased 2.6 percent last month, compared with February 2009, according to the American Trucking Associations’ advance seasonally adjusted index.