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At a time when trucking companies are falling from the landscape due to a lack of business and unsustainable rates, Jim Palmer Trucking found a way to keep its wheels on the road.

Consumer confidence improved two months in a row and in May rose to its highest level in eight months, according to researchers at the Conference Board.

Overcapacity in the trucking industry is sending used truck prices plummeting and leasing companies are scrambling to minimize the damage and keep inventory rolling.

Canadian National Railway got permission last spring to acquire a suburban Chicago short line, closed the deal early this year and is already running a few trains there.

The Obama administration’s fiscal 2010 budget proposal includes more than $250 million in transportation spending cuts, but lawmakers and interest groups won’t let the programs go without a fight.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is ready to take a new cross-border trucking program to Congress, but the bigger question may be whether Congress is ready for Mexican trucks.

YRC’s Worldwide’s latest move to avoid exiting the highway for good raises new questions not only about the trucking company’s financial status but also the future of thousands of retired union employ

Some railroads and unions appear to be planning now for the day when business returns and skilled workers are called back from layoffs.

The Virginia Department of Transportation scaled back its plan to close a group of rest stops in one of the heaviest truck routes in the country in a move the American Trucking Associations says will

Reddaway, a subsidiary of YRC Worldwide in the western United States and Canada, this week launched a four-level Guaranteed Window Delivery service.

Despite some lift from intermodal volume, major U.S. railroads by two important measures had their worst week so far this year.

The Obama administration does not favor raising the federal tax on motor vehicle fuels as a way to bolster highway spending accounts, said Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood.

The Greenbrier, a West Virginia resort hotel that until May 6 was a money-losing drag on CSX Corp.’s railroad focus, is now cleared by a bankruptcy court for its new owners to try to revive it a

Representatives of Canadian National Railway, CSX Corp. and Norfolk Southern Railway say they expect agricultural products to be the first to bounce back after the recession.

June could be a key time for Congress to act on rail antitrust legislation and perhaps on changes in how economic regulations enforce competition among carriers, said a top official for an activist ra

Please step away from the antitrust bill, the Association of American Railroads is urging Congress, as the nation’s top freight rail lobbying group calls for a national rail policy review rather

While lawmakers wrestled over how alternative energy should shape the nation’s overall energy policy yesterday on Capitol Hill, supporters of more traditional fuel sources were determined not to

BNSF Railway is putting 25 new-generation locomotives to work in its fleet, using a fresh model from GE Transportation that aims for a type of medium-duty power market in linehaul train moves.

Arnold B. McKinnon, Norfolk Southern’s second chairman, died May 18 in Washington D.C. He was 81.

A bill to strip railroads of a limited antitrust immunity could move to the Senate floor for a vote soon after Congress returns from its upcoming Memorial Day recess.

A study released May 19 by the Consumer Federation of America claims railroads overcharge consumers $3 billion a year as a result of monopoly pricing power.

The trucking industry will have to see a significant freight volume increase before beleaguered carriers return to profitability, a leading trucking executive says.

The top executive of troubled trucking giant YRC Worldwide challenged investment analysts and predicted his company would be profitable again by the end of third quarter.

YRC Worldwide’s intention to request $1 billion in federal aid could provide a check on rising freight rates by keeping a major competitor up and running, says the director of logistics at a lea

Retail diesel prices climbed 1.5 cents last week to an average of $2.231 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

A bipartisan resolution in the Illinois state senate is pivoting off a controversial rail merger outside Chicago, as it asks President Obama to name a community-minded freight specialist to fill a fed

The impact of the economy had a multiplied effect on non-asset based transportation services company AutoInfo in the first quarter.

The American Trucking Associations has challenged the April 28 decision by the U.S.

YRC Worldwide’s lenders waived a $45 million second quarter earnings requirement in a move one Wall Street analyst says is evidence banks aren’t interested in shutting down the troubled ca

There's a growing belief that action must be taken on size and weight limits for trucks on highways, but don't mistake that for any sort of agreement on the direction of truck limitations.

The National Infrastructure Bank proposed by President Obama will likely have many twists and turns on its journey toward a new way to fund infrastructure projects.

The twin troubles of overcapacity and weak demand forcing motor carriers to readjust operations could lead to long-term changes in the markets that supply their equipment.

Pacer International's shift from a $13 million profit in the first quarter to a $177 million loss this year is a strong sign the intermodal landscape itself has shifted.

Cutting transportation costs without sacrificing service or losing customers is difficult enough when times are good.

Transportation giant UPS said it’s studying the issue of federal bailouts for financially ailing trucking companies but wouldn’t comment directly on competitor YRC Worldwide’s reques

U.S. industrial output fell 0.5 percent in April from March, leaving it 12.5 percent below April 2008, the Federal Reserve said.

YRC is seeking $1 billion from the federal government for relief from its pension obligations in an unprecedented move as it struggles to keep operating under heavy pressure from its lenders.

Against a backdrop of falling profits, plunging traffic and rising rail layoffs, Norfolk Southern Railway’s chairman, president and CEO tried to reassure shareholders at the company’s annu

Trucking industry leader YRC Worldwide’s Chairman and CEO Bill Zollars said the company will seek $1 billion in federal bailout funds to ease pressure from its pension obligations.