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The open road doesn’t have the allure it once did for some truckload carriers, or for their shippers.

A group representing independent truck drivers responded angrily to reports the White House may be looking to open talks with Congress about a new cross-border trucking program with Mexico, calling th

Cities pressing for the legal authority to regulate harbor trucking should find out how far they can go in court in late April.

Union Pacific Railroad and CSX Transportation say customers will get the most out of their new UMAX domestic intermodal service in the form of faster, more efficient service across the country.

New loadings of the type of bulk materials and equipment that ride in regular railcars pushed to its highest level in more than a year for major U.S.-owned railroads.

Despite signs of a slowly improving economy, employment in the transportation modes that include freight operations slid further in February, the Labor Department reported.

Same-day carrier Dynamex increased its revenue slightly in its latest quarter as sequential quarter-to-quarter core sales increased for the second consecutive period.

Edward Rodzwicz, who had been national president until Nov.

The less-than-truckload industry shrank 24.4 percent in 2009, as total U.S. LTL revenue plunged from $33.3 billion to $25.2 billion, according to an industry study.

Seven of the top 25 less-than-truckload carriers reported more than a billion dollars in revenue in 2009, according to a study of the LTL industry.

YRC Worldwide is still the largest U.S.

American Railcar Industries managed to boost its profit in the fourth quarter, to $10.5 million from $7.6 million a year earlier, but it wasn’t from building freight cars.

The House, by a 217-212 margin, approved the $15 billion Senate-drafted Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act, which includes provisions to extend existing highway programs until Dec.

The House is expected to take up the Senate’s version of a jobs bill on Thursday, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., said Wednesday.

Competition between West and East Coast ports for Asian cargo has hit a point of equilibrium and market share probably won't change much in the coming years.

Old Dominion Freight Line is reaching deeper into shipper supply chains by expanding its warehousing division.

Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services gave a “BBB” rating to new CSX long-term debt notes, saying the eastern-U.S.

Early data show heavy truck orders climbed 19.7 percent in February from January, but were well below last year's average, indicating a slow recovery in new Class 8 truck orders, said FTR Associates.<

The economic recovery is finding its wheels at Landstar System, which saw its load volume leap 17 percent in January and again in February from depressed levels a year ago.

Finnish stevedores are set to walk off the job on March 4, joining striking truckers in a nationwide transport stoppage that threatens to bring industry to a halt and strangle the Nordic nation's fore

The Coast Guard terminated an application for the Detroit International Bridge Co. to build a new bridge adjacent to its 81-year-old Ambassador Bridge.

The Department of Transportation&rsquo;s highway programs remained shuttered for a second day, as lawmakers again failed to convince Sen.

The trucking industry hasn't seen the last of Douglas G. Duncan.

Wolfe Research suspended its &ldquo;underperform&rdquo; stock rating for YRC Worldwide pending a more complete fourth-quarter and full-year earnings report from the company.

The average price for diesel jumped 2.9 cents to $2.861 per gallon last week, the second consecutive week of increases after a five-week fall, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

State transportation officials warned on Monday that if Congress can&rsquo;t pass an extension of highway funding in the next few days, they will be forced to put new projects on hold, and delay or ca

All states met a key deadline in last year&rsquo;s stimulus law to obligate their highway project spending before March 2, said Vice President Joseph Biden and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.

Charging that &ldquo;political games&rdquo; are forcing a partial shutdown of federal operations and support to states, U.S.

UPS Freight is extending its reach across the U.S.-Canadian border by shortening transit times between major Canadian cities and U.S. markets.

Detroit&rsquo;s Ambassador Bridge, the busiest U.S.-Canadian border crossing, handled far fewer trucks than usual last year, as the recession drove the number of commercial vehicles using the span dow

The White House is looking for a route around roadblocks to a new cross-border trucking agreement with Mexico, hoping to end a year-long trade dispute hurting many U.S. companies.

After last year&rsquo;s massive layoffs, tens of thousands of truck drivers are unemployed, and more trucking bankruptcies are expected as the nascent recovery takes root.

The confidence across Canada hardly ends with this year&rsquo;s Winter Olympics.

Rail freight shippers and the largest U.S. railroads are increasingly on a collision course over rules that could govern their market for decades to come.

The Obama administration is making big down payments on a wide range of major freight projects around the country with its latest $1.5 billion in transportation grants.

Driver pay has been a factor in driver shortages since at least 1914, when a publication called Motor Truck reported, &ldquo;Nearly all employers complain of the great difficulty of securing drivers w

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Rep. James L.

IBM is launching an initiative to break traffic congestion bottlenecks.

Major surface transportation programs at the Department of Transportation were in danger of shutting down starting Monday after a senator raised objections to final passage of a short-term extens