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FedEx reported an $876 million net loss in its fiscal fourth quarter ending May 31 on Wednesday but company chief Frederick Smith said he believes the economy likely appears to have reached the bottom

Federally mandated emissions controls will add $6,000 to the price of a 2010-model-year diesel bus, vehicle manufacturer Navistar says.

The Federal Maritime Commission is moving to dismiss its challenge to the Los Angeles-Long Beach clean-trucks program, in effect telling the U.S.

Diesel prices rose for the sixth straight week, ending with an average jump of 7.4 cents to $2.572 per gallon nationwide on June 15, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Con-way Freight will soon begin offering “truckload-style” pricing for large less-than-truckload shipments by capping rates in an effort to funnel more business into its higher-cost LTL fr

Shipper support is building for heavier trucks on U.S. highways.

If surviving the recession is the first priority of trucking companies, the second might be making sure their network operations survive another round of negotiations with customers.

Just one year AGO, Michael J. Ward was in the fight of his career as chairman, president and CEO of CSX Corp., parent of one of the four largest U.S. railroads.

It took less than 24 hours for Anne S. Ferro’s nomination as the nation’s top truck safety official to become embroiled in the dispute over truck driver hours of service.

When Theo Zwygers went to the podium at a major rail industry conference in Chicago last month, the soft-spoken plastics industry executive hardly looked like a firebrand rising up against the nation’

YRC Worldwide did not apply for relief under the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the Associated Press reported June 12.

European Union competition regulators on June 12 cleared the planned acquisition by Deutsche Bahn, the German state railway, of Poland's biggest privately-owned rail freight company.

London -- European Union anti-trust regulators on June 12 opened an in-depth investigation of plans by DSV, Scandinavia's biggest trucker, and Danish shipping line Vesterhavet, to take joint control o

Trade moving by truck across the U.S.-Canadian border is so far unaffected by the start of the latest security upgrade two weeks ago.

The Teamsters union hopes to use a successful organizing effort at a Penske Logistics site in Southern California as a springboard toward larger efforts to bring logistics industry workers into the un

Ryder System inked a multi-year contract with plastic pallet maker Intelligent Global Pooling Systems to distribute and redeploy up to 175 million pallets annually to IGPS’s North American custo

The solution to freight corridor congestion may be through reducing commuter congestion, according to a new RAND Corporation study.

It may no longer be the worst of times in rail freight traffic, but it’s still close. U.S.

The American Trucking Associations renewed its call on Congress to mandate a 65 mph speed limit and require trucks to install electronic speed governors to insure they comply.

Chicago-based Echo Global Logistics acquired Raytrans Distribution Services in a combination the companies say will merge size with technology.

A key government measure of U.S. freight shipping fell to its lowest level in seven years in April, the government reported.

A cap-and-trade energy program would mean huge costs for the trucking industry and American consumers, the American Trucking Associations told Congress.

Two months after YRC Worldwide received approval from its lenders to use real estate as collateral for union pension deferrals, the Teamsters union formed a committee to consider whether changes are n

A Norfolk Southern Railway executive said his company is exploring the potential to eventually electrify some freight rail lines in connection with passenger rail corridors, but the chief executive of

As Union Pacific Railroad feels out today’s freight market and plans for when it might pull out of its downturn, Chairman, President and CEO James R. Young is cautious.

Retail diesel soared 14.6 cents to $2.498 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Not since the panic of last June have prices shot up so fast.

Big shippers are throwing their weight behind legislation allowing heavier trucks on federal roads as a way to boost carrier productivity, save fuel, and cut transportation costs.

All that talk about the economy starting to turn around has a lot of rail industry officials scratching their heads, and wondering when they will be able to count on any strengthening in shipments tha

Leif Holm-Andersen, director of transportation and logistics at Arrow Electronics, has been using freight payment software for several years, and he wouldn’t dream of going back to old-fashioned proce

Transporting refrigerated cargo is becoming an oasis for motor carriers that are finding it hard to make money hauling other kinds of freight.

Weak pricing in the less-than-truckload market isn’t deterring carriers from building density to cut transit times and use service to win business in a shrinking market.

A new security requirement could lead to a shift in the cross-border trucking market with Canada and higher costs for shippers.

Railroads may have won one battle in their bid to fend off rail regulatory legislation, but shippers believe they’re closer to winning the war in Congress.

It took less than 24 hours for Anne Ferro’s nomination as the nation’s top truck safety official to become embroiled in the dispute over truck driver hours of service.

TNT, providers of express and mail delivery services, launched the first-to-market and only integrated road network across South America, linking Argentina, Brazil and Chile.

The decline in railroad jobs appears to have stalled in May, while trucking employment edged slightly higher.

President Obama tapped Anne Ferro, the head of Maryland's state trucking association and a former Maryland motor vehicle administrator, as the next Federal Motor Carr

The United States should quickly begin building high-speed rail systems for both passenger and freight systems, says a former head of the Federal Railroad Administration.

With a key holiday falling on what is usually the first business day of the week, major U.S. railroads posted their worst volume numbers of 2009 in the week ending May 30.

The Illinois state senate is now on record, formally asking President Obama to soon fill an empty board seat on the Surface Transportation Board with an experienced transportation hand who would also