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The U.S. Department of Commerce awarded a $6 million Economic Development Administration grant to the Jacksonville Port Authority to help improve the Blount Island Marine Terminal railroad system.

Introduction of a rail regulatory reform bill in the Senate still awaits agreement with some shippers, said Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W. Va.

The Federal Railroad Administration will make grant awards this winter out of its $8 billion stimulus fund for freight and passenger rail systems.

YRC Worldwide realigned its senior management for the second time this year, naming Tim Wicks chief operating officer Oct. 5 and promoting or reassigning other key executives.

The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association supports a ban on cell-phone texting while driving, but wants better enforcement of existing laws on inattentive or negligent driving by all motorist

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services lowered its ratings on Panama Canal Railway Co. (PCRC), including lowering the long-term corporate credit rating to 'B+' from 'BB'.

The average retail price of diesel slid 1.9 cents last week to $2.582 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Challenger Motor Freight, one of the largest truckload carriers in Canada, acquired the special commodities business of Sandrock Specialized Carriers, a Heidelberg, Ontario-based company specializing

The state of the economy and government regulation top a list of trucking industry concerns released by the American Transportation Research Institute.

Refrigerated trucking company FFE Transportation Services signed a four-year contract valued at more than $3 million for fleetwide deployment of ReeferTrak, a monitoring and management service provide

A week-long curb on some shipments in and out of the U.S. Southeast, along with a fitfully slow freight recovery, combined to douse overall volume on small North American railroads.

As Congress considers two bills related to highway safety, shippers are urging lawmakers to pass the one that allows heavier trucks for what they say will be safer, greener, more efficient shipping.

With an Oct. 13 liquidity deadline approaching, YRC Worldwide is cutting deeper into its work force and seeking new leeway from lenders.

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is coming under as much fire in the Senate as the woman nominated as the next FMCSA administrator.

Struggling with years of financial losses and shipper defections, same-day delivery company Velocity Express is operating under bankruptcy protection while it restructures and hands most of its stock

Although the peak shipping season is getting under way at major North American railroads, rail executives say they expect little change from recession-socked traffic levels.

The Federal Railroad Administration and state transportation departments are pushing small stimulus grants through to bolster the rail system even though there is no word yet on any of the larger gran

Orders for new heavy duty trucks jumped in September in the first expansion in more than a year, according to a preliminary report from FTR Associates.

CSX Transportation launched intermodal train service between Buffalo, N.Y., and the seaports of New York City and Philadelphia, in a bid to win more container business from the East Coast to the Canad

Freight-related transportation jobs fell moderately in September, the Labor Department reported, but falling employment levels in key customer groups could signal more trouble ahead for the shipping s

Echo Global Logistics, which has grown into a $200 million company in less than five years, launched an initial public offering Friday expected to bring nearly $80 million to the third-party logistics

The recovery in freight traffic hit some washouts at major U.S. rail operations in the week ending Sept.

RailAmerica will sell a minority stake of the short line holding company now owned by Fortress Investment Group, in an initial public offering of common stock.

SNCF, France’s state-owned railway, said it will sharply increase container traffic and offer high speed express services as part of a $1.5 billion plan to boost market share and move its freigh

The United Steelworkers’ Local 1976, based in Montreal, ratified a three-year contract deal with Canadian Pacific Railway that raises wages three percent in 2010 and 2011 but leaves pay unchange

After an absence of almost a century, electric trucks are poised to make a comeback on city streets in the U.S.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on Wednesday kicked off a two-day Distracted Driving Summit in Washington, D.C.

Surface trade with Canada and Mexico sank 28 percent in July compared with a year earlier, the Bureau of Transportation Statistics of the U.S. Department of Transportation reported Sept. 30.

As crude oil futures took a steep dive last week, the price of diesel responded quickly, falling 2.1 cents to $2.601 per gallon on average, according to the U.S.

A prototype switching locomotive that Norfolk Southern Railway showed off this week is a plug-in electric unit with 1,500 horsepower of pulling energy, zero exhaust and a pack of 1,080 batteries.

YRC Worldwide is continuing an executive restructuring alongside “workforce adjustments” as it attempts to stave off bankruptcy and return to profitability.

A coalition of shipper and carrier groups, heating up the war of words over the Port of Los Angeles clean-trucks plan, issued a point-by-point rebuttal to claims environmental groups are making as the

When E. Hunter Harrison retires at the end of this year as president and CEO of Canadian National Railway, one of CN’s key new facilities will bear his name in his old home town.

Trucking giant YRC Worldwide is cutting deeper into its workforce and winning new leeway from lenders as it strives to avoid bankruptcy.

Washington supporters of trucking and shipper interests are girding themselves for a stealth attack from adversaries that want to push legislation through Congress that gives port authorities the righ

Coming up short isn’t a bad thing for a truckload carrier, if you’re talking length of haul.

Douglas G. Duncan, the trucking veteran who became president and CEO of FedEx Freight when the company was created in 2001, will step down Feb. 28, 2010. FedEx did not name a replacement.

The western railroads have lost much of their East Coast intermodal cargo to all-water liner services from Asia, and now they must work diligently to preserve their market share in key inland location

A rail regulatory reform bill is still stuck in shadowy Senate-industry negotiations.