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What’s in a name? Union Pacific Railroad thinks a more direct branding plan can help it boost revenue by putting more used cars on its trains.

Surface Trade with Canada and Mexico plummeted 31.5 percent in June compared with June a year ago, but the month-to-month increase of 6 percent runs counter to seasonal trends and confirms signals tha

Intermodal intermediary Pacer International, looking to shore up its finances amid big losses in the economic downturn, announced a restructured credit agreement with bankers Friday, beating its end-o

In preparation for the peak fall season and extra demands on retailers, YRC Worldwide is expanding its window delivery capabilities across all of its transportation companies.

YRC Worldwide named Richard Williamson, a management consultant who’s worked with the less-than-truckload operator on its financial restructuring, chief strategy officer, a

Freight traffic at small North American railroads in the latest week grew to its highest level in nearly six months last week as short lines, like major carriers, enjoyed an accelerating recovery from

A rise in railcar loads of coal, plus metal industry inputs of scrap and metallic ores, pushed bulk carloadings up by 2,990 units for major U.S. railroads in the week ending Aug.

The Department of Transportation pushed its stimulus project payouts to $2.023 billion in the week ending Aug.

Tonnage actually hauled by trucks decreased in July, whether compared with June’s dismal contraction or with July of a year ago.

Illinois will ask Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood to award $300 million to a multi-year project to untangle its congested freight and passenger rail lines, under a $1.5 billion discretionary fundi

New York City is scrubbing soot from its skyline by turning to electric vehicles, from heavy trucks to compact cars.

A truck driver working for UPS was killed Tuesday after his vehicle went off road and struck a concrete bridge pillar on an Indiana highway.

U.S. rail equipment maker Wabtec said its subsidiary in Doncaster, England, won a $9 million contract to build 24 specialty trackbed maintenance cars for Irish Rail.

The state of Illinois is seeking about $550 million in federal passenger rail grants under the Recovery Act, with most of the money aimed at projects that tie into freight rail corridors as well.

Rail equipment supplier Trinity Industries told a state agency it will close a railcar manufacturing plant in Fort Worth, Texas, for an undetermined period of at least six months, and furlough 158 wor

Credit ratings firm Standard & Poor’s removed both YRC Worldwide and Con-way from its CreditWatch list this month, but maintained a “negative outlook” for the trucking companies

Diesel prices climbed for the fifth consecutive week, adding 1.6 cents to reach an average of $2.668 per gallon, the highest retail price this year, according to the U.S.

Kansas City Southern, smallest of the top tier or Class I North American railroads, unveiled a second set of management changes following the departure Aug. 7 of Scott E.

Trucking bankruptcies plunged nearly 62 percent in the second quarter, falling to 370 from a peak of 970 a year ago, according to investment banking firm Avondale Partners.

The executive directors of the West Coast’s six major container ports in early August broke an informal code of silence on an issue that has concerned them since at least 2007.

The case of two Los Angeles-area transportation con men had all the elements of a movie thriller except a Hollywood ending — at least for the scammers.

Truckload carriers are beginning to report month-to-month increases in demand as the economy shows signs of improvement.

Nicholas Lakes and Viacheslav Berkovich used home computers, multiple cell phones, dozens of aliases and a web of false companies to cheat hundreds of victims in the trucking industry out of millions

Regional less-than-truckload carrier New England Motor Freight will reach across the border and deep into Canada through a partnership with Manitoulin Transport, a Toronto-based LTL carrier with 66 Ca

The man running the nation’s rail safety and financing agency is a fifth-generation rail worker, onetime mayor of a Chicago suburb, longtime union official and someone who brings to his job a personal

Maersk Line’s drive to establish a national chassis pool is starting to gain traction, even among critics.

A “deep and DARK RECESSION” may have slowed Manitoulin Transport, but it hasn’t stopped the Canadian company’s expansion, President and CEO Gord Smith says.

The Federal Railroad Administration is gearing up for big changes in the nation’s freight rail system, including direct government spending on track projects, as it implements President Obama’s plan t

Pricing information for container traffic from the West Coast is not publicly available, but industry traffic and revenue figures suggest railroad efficiency efforts have helped rail carriers maintain

It’s a simple fact of life: People get sick. So when economies take ill worldwide, the one area consumers won’t skimp on is their own health.

The first state applications for “shovel-ready” passenger rail projects are due into the Federal Railroad Administration on Aug.

Rail industry equipment supplier FreightCar America said it received an expected notification letter from the Nasdaq stock exchange that it is out of compliance with deadlines for financial filings, a

The city of Temple, Texas, on Aug. 15 granted Patriot Rail an exclusive long-term license to provide rail switching and other rail-related services to customers at Central Pointe Rail Park.

The nation’s top railroads increased employment slightly from mid-June to mid-July.

Major U.S. railroads enjoyed the highest bulk carloadings in five months during the week ending Aug.

The Department of Transportation paid out another $243 million for stimulus projects bills in the week ending Aug. 14, bringing the total it has spent so far to $1.737 billion.

Small North American railroads saw their freight traffic rise in the week ending Aug. 15, with some cargoes pushing to the strongest levels since last winter.

Intermodal firm Pacer International completed the sale of its Pacer Transport flatbed truck unit for about $2 million to Universal Truckload Services. The sale closed Aug. 17, Pacer announced on Aug.

Deutsche Bahn, Germany's state-owned rail company, earned less than half the profit of a year ago due to "massive declines" in rail, ocean and air cargo volume.