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A new federal rule issued Tuesday on automated train management systems allows railroads to wrap up their implementation plans in time for an April deadline, the Federal Railroad administration said.<

Arrow Trucking, the flatbed carrier that suddenly closed just before Christmas, entered bankruptcy amid a welter of lawsuits and allegations of fraud from one of its lenders.

Roadrunner Transportation Services this month closed on the acquisition of Bullet Freight Systems.

The average retail price of diesel fuel soared 8.2 cents last week to a 13-month high of $2.879 per gallon, according to figures from the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

In what may be the first acquisition in trucking of 2010, Henderson Transport, a truckload carrier in Bensenville, Ill., bought Towns Transportation, Birmingham, Ala.

Daimler Trucks North America, Navistar and Cummins received more than $100 million in federal grants Monday to improve the fuel mileage of heavy-duty trucks.

The Amtrak passenger rail service will buy more than 100 locomotives, along with hundreds of new passenger cars, in what it is billing as a &ldquo;major equipment purchase.&rdquo;

Rail supplier Portec Rail Products began selling its fault detection product line in China, expanding sales in that country.

A gigantic snowstorm across the Appalachian region, followed by mishaps that shut down both conveyor belts at a huge coal export terminal, brought 2009 to sour close for rail shipments of export coal.

The economic recovery may turn out to be crueler than the recession for trucking companies battered by the worst downturn in decades.

YRC Worldwide clinched a deal with reluctant bondholders last month with a lot of help from its good friends, the Teamsters.

Forget Times Square.

Railroads and shippers are in a growing dustup over coal dust that could change the way key rail cargo is handled.

U.S. rail and water transport jobs edged up slightly in December, but the larger trucking and air sectors continued to cut back.

Rail executives, transportation analysts, economists and commodity specialists are looking to the housing market for signs of the direction of lumber shipments, but the market has been sending mixed m

Trucking executives rolled into 2010 hoping business, if not much better, would not be any worse than in 2009. But they aren&rsquo;t expecting much of a boost early in the year.

The future of coal is not what it used to be, and that simple fact can alter the business model for freight railroads.

Rail freight shippers in the United States have plenty of reason to see 2010 as a time when government actions could fundamentally reshape their industry.

If any segment of the trucking industry were naturally resistant to recession, it would be food hauling and refrigerated transport.

North America&rsquo;s railroads face challenges in 2010 notably different from those most freight-hauling industries must deal with: how to generate better results after what in many ways was a banner

Truckload demand gained strength in early 2010, with little sign of a post-holiday downturn, according to Morgan Stanley.

GE Transportation will deliver 50 new freight locomotives to Brazilian sugar and ethanol producer Cosan, with the engines built in the United States and the locomotive structures in Brazil.

Detroit billionaire and bridge-owner Manuel "Matty" Maroun may oppose a government-owned span linking the Michigan city and Canada, but that won't stop him from setting up trucking operation

Old Dominion Freight Line will raise its rates an average of 4.4 percent, effective Jan. 18, the regional less-than-truckload carrier said Friday.

Small railroads across North America lost one fourth of their freight volume in 2009, according to the RMI RailConnect index of short lines and regional railroads.

YRC Worldwide paid one of its top executives $400,000 this week as part of a non-competition and confidentially agreement that includes an additional $400,000 in incentive pay if he stays with the com

Railcar and barge builder Greenbrier lost $3.2 million in its September-November fiscal first quarter of 2010, less of a decline than its $3.9 million loss a year earlier.

The latest in a series of strong winter storms is disrupting all forms of surface freight transportation, as rivers and rail switches ice up and some Interstate highways have closed at times from heav

The 2009 plunge in bulk U.S.

The two big Canadian Class I railroads suffered a sharper decline in bulk carload traffic in 2009 than U.S.-based major lines, while their drop in intermodal matched the U.S.

A Port of Long Beach advertisement promoting its clean-truck plan to neighboring communities attracted the support of International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 13.

Late-year gains in some commodity cargoes and in intermodal business were not enough to let large U.S. rail lines escape double-digit declines in both types of traffic.

Major U.S. railroads hauled fewer intermodal units in 2009 than any time since 2003, meaning the deep recession took six years of growth away from intermodal train traffic.

Penske Truck Leasing entered into an agreement with the Bright family to acquire Bright Truck Leasing & Bright Distribution. Financial terms were not disclose

Less-than-truckload pricing, which took a sharp turn downward toward the end of the 2009, will begin to firm by the second half of 2010 regardless of whether YRC Worldwide is still in business, invest

Fewer shippers are considering diverting freight from YRC Worldwide in the wake of its successful debt-for-equity swap, but a significant percentage of shippers are still shifting volume to other carr

Dennis Copeland is leaving his position as senior vice president and chief administrative officer at Quality Distribution.

Shippers are returning to YRC Worldwide "pretty aggressively," Chairman and CEO William D.

The ocean port at Everett, Wash., will build a rail spur to expand its freight train operations, largely paid with federal funds for disaster preparations.

The Alaska Railroad won approval from the Surface Transportation Board to build an 80-mile northern extension from the town of North Pole, outside Fairbanks, southeast to Delta Junction, an area now s