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Despite faint signs that parts of the freight industry are bottoming out or even picking up after a long slide, don’t look for bunches of “green shoots” to push through the tracks.

Six months after winning a 10 percent wage cut from its union workers, YRC Worldwide went back to the bargaining table.

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

Hampton Boulevard offers a winding, often scenic path from Norfolk, Va., to Portsmouth, taking just six miles to go from one port terminal to another through bustling neighborhoods that include a hosp

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

An impending cap on hours worked by train crews has major U.S. railroads wanting to alter pay agreements to reflect the curbs, and they have asked a federal court to quickly step in.

YRC Worldwide and the Teamsters union will extend negotiations on contract concessions that could save the carrier $500 million into a second week.

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Pacer International, one of the top consolidators of domestic intermodal shipments on the nation’s railroads, said it has negotiated a compliance waiver for its credit leverage amount with a syn

Monson Trucking of Duluth, Minn., is shutting down following the loss of two major shipper customers.

Union Pacific Railroad sold 33 track miles north of Denver to Colorado’s Regional Transportation District for $118 million, in the first and largest of four land transfer deals to develop commut

In counting up railroads that are spending time on the possibilities of electrified freight train operations, don't include CSX Transportation.

Kansas City Southern started receiving the first of 27 yard locomotives and road switcher units that have gone through a re-power upgrade that cuts fuel use and emissions.

A train carrying liquefied petroleum gas derailed and exploded just before midnight Monday outside the seaside resort of Viareggio, Italy.

The average price of diesel fuel dropped back eight-tenths of a cent to $2.608 per gallon last week, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

CSX is committing to cut its carbon dioxide emissions 8 percent by 2011 under a voluntary federal environmental program, the railroad said Monday.

The days of a harbor truck driver’s cursory inspection of an intermodal chassis should be gone with the implementation of “roadability” regulations published by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Admini

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey is expanding its incentive program to get ocean shippers to use rail, offering $25 per container for new business booked on the authority’s ExpressRail sy

Although truckers hauled less freight in May compared with the same month a year ago, the contraction was the best year-over-year result in three months, and tonnage actually increased compared with A

Short line railroads have posted their best three weeks of freight volume since March, suggesting a mild pickup may be under way after traffic slumped severely in the spring.

Maersk Line will launch a nationwide chassis pool, pushing forward the evolution of the U.S. intermodal industry.

WATERLOO, Iowa — Dan Sabin stands atop a levee next to the Cedar River and recalls the dark days a year ago when it looked like his Iowa Northern Railway was losing a fight for its very existence agai

The road ahead for the country’s largest trucking company is looking rockier than ever despite a reprieve from the Teamsters union and its major pension fund.

Truck traffic across the Canadian border is lighter these days, but the list of security rules that cross-border truckers and their shipper customers must obey has grown longer.

National Retail Systems is finding new ways to make money.

It’s not part of the stimulus money coursing from federal coffers through state highway budgets, but a Department of Transportation program just sent $5.2 million to 14 states to help pay for innovati

Class I railroad operations in the U.S. shed an additional 2,727 employees from mid-April to mid-May, putting rail employment at the major lines down to the lowest level in this decade.

Six months after winning a 10 percent wage cut from its unionized workers, YRC Worldwide is back at the bargaining table.

When you look for green shoots, think scrap.

London – The slump in European rail freight traffic that began in the final quarter of 2008 is deepening as major shippers slash production and shutter plants and trucks cut freight rates to boo

Getting a new multi-year, federal transportation spending program approved by Congress quickly is a key to the health of the factory sector, says the head of the National Association of Manufacturers.

President Obama plans to nominate aviation safety expert Christopher A. Hart to be a member of the National Transportation Safety Board.

Clean diesel technologies in engines manufactured beginning in 2007 not only reduced certain emissions by 90 percent compared to 2004 models, but far exceeded expectations in their performance in clea

Two key senators, who chair committees important to transportation infrastructure, urged the Senate to set aside at least $50 million for rail safety technology grants.

Charging that excessive speculation is driving up diesel fuel prices, the American Trucking Associations asked Congress to place new controls on energy futures markets.

Canadian National Railway told regulators it made more progress last month in trimming the number of street-clogging train incidents on the Chicago-area short line tracks it recently acquired.

After the seventh consecutive weekly increase, diesel fuel reached its highest price in seven months.

Federal officials are investigating the derailment of 18 tanker cars of a Canadian National Railway train that ran off the tracks and exploded near Rockford, Ill., killing a woman at a crossing.

Intermodal movements were a drag on rail freight traffic in the week ending June 13.

YRC Worldwide finalized an agreement with its largest pension fund to defer pension contributions as the trucking company scrambles to raise cash to avoid bankruptcy.