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Kansas City Southern and Wallenius Wilhelmsen Logistics will open a vehicle distribution center for automaker Nissan near Houston, using the new rail segment KCS opened there this month.

Short line railroads across North America showed just a mild uptick in traffic after the holiday-shortened July 4 week, leaving traffic weaker than during June for the seven days ending July 11.

Anne S. Ferro's nomination to be head of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is in the hands of the Senate, moving her closer to a confirmation hearing.

A major conservative interest group asked FedEx for a $2 million to $3 million donation in exchange for the group’s backing in a legislative battle with UPS, according to a published report Friday.

Kansas City Southern is celebrating a new rail segment in Texas this week that it hopes can open a new era in its cross-border freight traffic and nab more intermodal loads.

Norfolk Southern Railway said it plans to build a $129 million Memphis Regional Intermodal Terminal east of that city in Rossville, Tenn., with a targeted opening date of January 2012.

Carloadings of bulk materials and machinery rose in the latest week to the strongest level in three months at major U.S. railroads, as freight picked up after the slow July 4 holiday period.

Landstar System on July 15 reported lower second-quarter earnings, as the Jacksonville, Fla.-based trucking company continued to feel the impact of the economic recession.

Flying J has a plan to come out of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy, but it means selling its core truck stop business to Pilot Travel Centers.

The trucking industry is towing too many empty trailers to gain the speed it needs to reach a recovery, says FTR Associates.

APM Terminals in Aarhus, Denmark, has started a new rail shuttle service from the Port of Aarhus to Copenhagen.

Transportation executives looking for clues as to when the U.S.

New York-New Jersey port truckers said they support the concept of chassis pools, but aren't happy with Maersk's planned Direct ChassisLink program, and won't support it without changes.

The Teamsters union would gain a seat on YRC Worldwide's board of directors and other concessions from the company in return for a 15 percent overall wage cut and a temporary waiver on pension payment

Truckload carrier Heartland Express defied the economic downturn with a 2 percent boost in net profit in the second quarter, but the carrier said July 14 it sees little improvement in the economy and

CSX Transportation saw revenue fall 24.8 percent and net profit drop 20 percent on a sharp decline in shipping in the second quarter, but the railroad still managed a $308 million profit and said it m

Rail industry sources expect a Senate committee to soon unveil a bill that would overhaul railroad regulations and alter the Surface Transportation Board.

A controversial 2007 plan to merge two large labor groups in the AFL-CIO, the United Transportation Union of train conductors and other rail workers with the Sheet Metal Workers International Associat

At a time when North American railroads are idling equipment and workers, slashing capital project spending and trying to ride out a severe traffic slump, Kansas City Southern is celebrating the compl

Will shorter work assignments equate to the same pay for unionized rail workers? A federal court has been asked to decide.

Intermodal Traffic may be down, but the companies that put containers and trailers on trains aren’t out for the count.

As it struggles to stay on track and regain speed, Pacer International faces a deadline.

Trucking bankruptcies may be on the rise again after declining 49 percent in early 2009, as higher fuel costs and the recession grind down carrier profit margins.

Monson Trucking isn’t the first trucking company to fail in this recession, but it is one of the oldest.

Truckload carrier Landstar System is expanding off-road by acquiring two technology companies that give it greater reach into shippers’ freight networks.

President Obama is filling out his team to regulate railroads.

Short line railroads surveyed for the RMI RailConnect index hauled 85,276 combined carloads and intermodal units in the week ending July 4, well ahead of the Memorial Day week at the end of May but no

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YRC Worldwide’s stock rose 60 cents to $1.49 a share July 9 on news that the financially strapped trucking enterprise reached a tentative agreement on cost cuts with the Teamsters union.

The U.S. Postal Service is greening its fleet of delivery trucks with 1,000 E-85 ethanol-powered and 900 hybrid gasoline-electric trucks.

Major U.S. railroads reported stronger traffic over the July 4 holiday period than over the Memorial Day week, and had the lowest decline in year-over-year numbers since March.

Maersk Line plans to launch its new chassis pool arrangement throughout the Northeast on Monday, Aug. 3.

Cross-border trucking over the Ambassador Bridge connecting Detroit to Windsor, Ontario, the busiest commercial connection between the United States and Canada, fell by nearly a third in the first hal

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In a significant step that will help speed freight movements in the country, Indian Railways announced plans to operate container trains with fixed schedules and assured transit times.

Freightliner Truck, the largest heavy truck maker in North America unveiled a natural gas-powered Class 8 tractor June 7 aimed at the port, drayage and utility markets.

Milan Express and New Century Transportation formed a “Lightning Alliance” to speed less-than-truckload freight from the Midwest and Southeast to the Northeast.

President Obama nominated Daniel R. Elliott III, an associate general counsel at the United Transportation Union, to become the next chairman of the Surface Transportation Board.

Freight traffic at major U.S.

Motor carriers serving the nation’s ports and rail ramps are convinced that if they can survive the global trade recession for six more months, they will be well positioned to thrive in an impro