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A multi-year program to realign Chicago’s commuter and freight rail system issued its largest contract to date, a $10.4 million project that will double the rail capacity through the Stockyards

Stronger international lift and a pickup in next-day shipments took some of the sting out of the recession for UPS in the third quarter.

The U.S. intermodal market remains tough, but two of the industry’s biggest service providers are finding ways to build on their strengths.

The country may be crawling out of the worst recession in decades, and transportation companies along with their customers may be reeling from slack demand and “unsustainable rates,” but you wouldn’t

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Rules that govern how many hours a day truck drivers may spend behind the wheel may change again, perhaps before August 2011, as the federal agency that regulates motor carriers reconsiders whether tr

Transloading volumes at West Coast ports are down, but importers’ interest in transloading is up as companies look to take cost out of their supply chains.

Operating without its own equipment on the road appears to make C.H. Robinson Worldwide a tough target for the economic downturn.

YRC Worldwide says it is gaining new customers even as it continues to lose some shippers, leading to "stabilization" of its customer base and improved yields, top company officials say.

YRC Worldwide’s regional carrier group reported a $293,000 profit, its first since the second quarter of 2008, largely driven by a turnaround at former USF regional carrier Holland, said YRC Wor

Shippers in the National Industrial Transportation League are firm in wanting an expected rail regulatory reform bill to strip railroads of a limited exemption they enjoy from antitrust laws, said NIT

Trucking giant YRC Worldwide, fighting to stay out of bankruptcy, cut its net loss to $158.7 million in the third quarter but saw its volume and revenue fall sharply as shippers apparently moved busin

The chairman of the Surface Transportation Board is filling his remaining top staff job with a lawyer who has represented industrial firms before regulatory agencies, giving him a pair of senior aides

Traffic edged higher for major U.S. railroads in the week ending Oct. 24, as both carloads and intermodal pickups rose from a week earlier, said the Association of American Railroads.

Surface trade with Canada and Mexico in August fell 24.9 percent from August 2008 to $54.3 billion, according to the Bureau of Transportation Statistics of the U.S. Department of Transportation.

Kansas City Southern, smallest of the seven Class I railroads, saw net income fall 47 percent from a year earlier to $25.8 million in the third quarter.

North American short line railroads picked up more loads in the latest week, with gains across a wide range of cargoes, according to RMI’s RailConnect index.

Trinity Industries, largest of North America’s railcar makers and a large supplier of wind energy towers and barges, did half the business it did a year earlier in the third quarter.

Norfolk Southern Railway’s third-quarter profit fell 41.7 percent from a year earlier to $303 million, as rail revenue fell 28.7 percent to $2.063 billion.

Heavy truck manufacturer Paccar eked out a $13 million third-quarter profit on $2 billion in combined truck and financial service revenue, but its net was down 96 percent from a year earlier and its t

Truckload carrier Covenant Transportation Group lost $13.6 million in the third quarter on freight revenue, excluding fuel surcharges, of $133.3 million.

Canadian Pacific Railway’s profit of $183 million in the third quarter increased 14 percent from $161 million in 2008.

Federal truck driver hours of service rules will be revised and a new rule proposed within nine months under an agreement between the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, the Teamsters union a

Scania, the Swedish truck maker, said the downturn in the European market has leveled off as it reported third quarter earnings plunged 85 percent from a year ago.

Canadian National Railway will have to expand its monthly reporting to regulators about its newly acquired short line outside Chicago, as the Surface Transportation Board said the reports must include

Retail diesel prices took a third consecutive leap this week just before oil prices dropped sharply with the rebound of the U.S. dollar.

An American Trucking Associations executive said New York and New Jersey politicians will regret endorsing Los Angeles-style clean-truck regulations that he said represent a thinly disguised effort to

UPS Freight improved transit times between western Canada and points across the United States.

An activist rail shippers’ lobbying group pushed back hard against an industry proposal for Congress to make only limited change in laws governing rail competition.

In the push to mingle more passenger trains in the cargo-dominated rail network, U.S. freight railroads got a key show of support from the Obama administration.

New Deal Logistics’ Joe Killeen knows retail delivery like he knows Manhattan, which is to say block by block.

The intermodal industry could be facing its biggest shakeup of the decade, as two large intermodal intermediaries and at least two big railroads are reportedly talking about big contracts — ending one

The Port of Los Angeles’s task of defending its clean-trucks plan against a lawsuit by the American Trucking Associations got suddenly more difficult on Oct.

YRC Worldwide this week will release what could be the most significant quarterly earnings report in trucking this year, and analysts, customers and competitors — as well as tens of thousands of emplo

New Deal Logistics, which offers trucking and distribution services from New England to North Carolina, got its start serving the apparel business in New York’s midtown Garment District in the late 19

The battle to organize harbor truck drivers at U.S.

A change in vacation policy allegedly helped less-than-truckload carrier Saia return to profitability in the third quarter.

A significant contributor came out of the RMI RailConnect index of short line traffic starting the week of Oct. 17, taking a bite out of several cargo categories.

The trucking industry is finding the road to recovery has its own potholes.

RailRunner, developer of a container-based intermodal transport system, signed a 10-year agreement under which its products will be manufactured, operated, distributed and sold in India by Kolkata-bas