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Trucking company A. Duie Pyle is expanding its warehousing operations, opening a 243,000-square-foot warehouse in Westfield, Mass.

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Pennsylvania’s governor joined with Philadelphia’s mayor and the chairman, president and CEO of eastern-U.S.

Fatigue “is one of the most insidious issues in the transportation industry,” and more must be done to fight it, said Deborah A.P.

Investor Warren Buffett said his Berkshire Hathaway firm has moved quickly to shed its holdings in railroads other than BNSF Railway, which it plans to buy out for $26 billion.

Volvo Group will sell its half interest in a Chinese truck manufacturer six years after joining the partnership.

FedEx Freight, the less-than-truckload division of FedEx, agreed to a partnership with Vision Industries to test a tractor powered by the hydrogen/electric hybrid Tyrano drive train.

Deep discounting slashed less-than-truckload rates in the third quarter as carriers tried to knock the nation’s largest LTL trucker, YRC Worldwide, out of business. No one delivered that kn

Truck buyers put the pedal to the metal in October, sending Class 8 truck sales zooming 104 percent from September and 117 percent over October 2008.

Having redrawn its business model over the years, J.B. Hunt Transport Services now appears intent on redrawing the nation’s intermodal map.

Whatever the outcome of the rail reform bill being drafted in the Senate, it is unlikely to strip railroads of their limited antitrust immunity, according to a key Republican senator.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will hold webinars on its Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010 initiative Dec. 3 and Dec. 10, at 3:30 p.m. EST.

During her Senate confirmation hearing, then-nominee Anne S. Ferro heard an earful about the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s record enforcing truck safety rules.

Intermodal marketing companies, middleman firms that arrange either all-highway or combined rail-truck shipments for clients such as factories or retail stores, used trains for a greater share of thei

Despite all the talk that weak intermodal volumes this year meant there was not really a normal “peak,” the major industry group that tracks shipments says traffic actually rose this fall

Shippers and carriers expect there will be sufficient capacity in the domestic transportation system to handle the modest growth in traffic that will occur in the coming year, but eventually there wil

Smaller logistics operators and freight brokers outperformed their larger counterparts in the third quarter, but a less-than-robust recovery is squeezing profit margins at all 3PLs, said the Transport

Average truckload rates fell 9.4 percent in the third quarter despite sharp cuts in capacity compared to last year, carrier Covenant Transport said in a securities filing.

Small North American railroads picked up more tankcar loads of chemicals last week than at the end of October and enjoyed a sizable gain in coal loadings, for a gain in overall traffic in the latest R

Kenan Advantage Group, the nation’s largest bulk over-the-road fuel transporter, is expanding its territory and business in the Pacific Northwest by acquiring the assets of fuel hauler Reinhard

The city of Los Angeles has spent more than $1 million in lobbying and litigation to defend the port’s clean truck concession requirements, according to a Southern California attorney.

Total intermodal volume in the United States and Canada during the third quarter fell 16.4 percent compared with the same period last year, to 2,995,043 units, the Intermodal Association of North Amer

Bulk railcar loadings slipped while intermodal traffic picked up in the latest week for major railroads operating in the United States.

Freight railcar and barge builder Greenbrier posted a $6.7 million profit in the June-August period that was its fiscal fourth quarter, for its best result of the past year even though net income was

The output of the freight transportation industry declined 0.5 percent in September from August, blunting a three-month long recovery, according to a report Thursday from the U.S.

Reporting quarterly earnings for the first time since it went public with a new stock offering last month, short line railroad operator RailAmerica posted a 21 percent increase in profit to $3.5 milli

FedEx says it expects no more audits from the Internal Revenue Service now that the agency for the second time dropped a look at potential penalties in the company’s classification of parcel division

West Coast port directors and executives from the two Class I western railroads meeting in China cited their region's deep-water ports and extensive ocean and intermodal rail services as reasons why t

Shares of trucking company Celadon Group began trading on the New York Stock Exchange Nov. 10, after the Indianapolis-based company shifted its listing from the Nasdaq stock market.

At a time when many trucking companies are hard up for cash, Werner Enterprises says it will deliver $90 million in special dividends to shareholders next month.

The rail reform bill being prepared for the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee is unlikely to strip railroads of their limited antitrust immunity, said a key Republican senator.

To fully equip a Bronx, N.Y., station as the company’s first all-hybrid facility, FedEx Express ordered 51 new hybrid vehicles from Azure Dynamics.

Old Dominion Freight Line will speed service through its Northwest gateway into Canada starting Nov. 9, connecting more than 65 Old Dominion service centers to Edmonton and Calgary, Canada.

National Refrigerated Trucking, a truckload and less-than-truckload refrigerated trucking company, opened a new LTL lane to Georgia and Florida.

The planned purchased of BNSF Railway by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway will not trigger a special compensation package for the railroad’s CEO, who plans to stay aboard and has offici

The average price of diesel fell for the first time in five weeks, dropping seven-tenths of a cent to $2.801 per gallon in the week ending Nov. 9, according to the U.S.

Before it completes its deal to buy out the rest of BNSF Railway, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway will divest its shares of Union Pacific Railroad and Norfolk Southern Railway.

The first two of GE Transportation’s PowerHaul locomotives have arrived in the United Kingdom for the Freightliner Group freight rail line, marking GE’s first entry to European markets wit

With an audacious business deal, the most legendary investor in the United States and perhaps the most visionary leader of North American railroads could change the freight industry for a generation t

Asking for changes to the controversial approval of a key rail merger, Chicago suburbs and the Illinois Department of Transportation managed to get a split decision out of the Surface Transportation B