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The Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association is suing the Minnesota State Patrol for violating truck drivers’ rights in placing them out of service for fatigue.

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Democratic leaders on the Senate Commerce Committee are calling for what might be called a shift away from highway freight transportation by 2020.

Profit at Express-1 Expedited Solutions fell 99 percent to $5,000 in the first quarter as a result of falling surcharge revenue and excess capacity.

Jim Ritchie, CEO of YRC Logistics, will leave the company at the end of May.

The massive Southern California international trade economy will decline further in 2009 before registering a modest gain next year, according to a report released by the Los Angeles County Economic D

Canadian National Railway vowed to cut the number of long delays at road crossings caused by train operations over its newly acquired Chicago-area short line, and did just that.

YRC Worldwide warned it may not reach its second quarter earnings requirement as the fragile financial standing at the nation’s largest heavy-freight trucking company seems to be getting shakier

A federal forecast for weak grain output this year could push up commodity prices and spur farmers and grain elevators to release more from their stockpiles to put into railcars for shipment to market

Used truck pricing is still down “double digits” year-over-year with no sign of improving due to overcapacity in the truckload market, according to a Wall Street analyst.

Truck maker Freightliner and drive train manufacturer Eaton are preparing an electric hybrid delivery truck for the propane gas market.

The recession dragged intermodal shipping volume down 16.3 percent in the first quarter, the largest drop ever recorded by the Intermodal Association of North America.

GE Transportation plans to build a $100 million factory to make high-power batteries that it says are a key to putting hybrid-drive power systems into heavy freight locomotives, harbor tug boats and m

CSX Transportation and a major chemical shipper that has led the charge against rail rate increases, E.I.

Diesel prices jumped jumped 3.1 cents last week to $2.216 per gallon, the first increase after three straight weeks of declines, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Electro-Motive Diesel, one of the two U.S. builders of big line-haul locomotives for the rail freight industry, tapped Michael P.

Norfolk Southern last week idled most operations at a Columbus, Ohio facility and will lay off 86 workers there in July.

Tariffs Mexico imposed on select U.S. products in response to the elimination of a cross-border trucking program are having little discernable impact on cross-border trade — or trucking.

Even with a first-quarter loss on its books and its large Mexico operations in a swine flu hot zone, Kansas City Southern could be in a good spot.

Shippers bracing for a dramatic surge in trucking rates can take a deep breath — evidence is stacking up that loose capacity and rock-bottom prices will be around for a while.

After losing freight to competitors for two consecutive quarters, YRC Worldwide is rolling out a customer incentive package in an attempt to rebuild freight flows and density in its struggling long-ha

Large North American railroads are pushing their base pricing steadily higher, even with the worst freight market in decades.

While much of the world was showing growing alarm over a possible swine flu pandemic and business scrambled to contain the impact, Dan Sanker, CEO of logistics provider CaseStack, pulled out his plans

The U.S. trucking industry shed more than 16,000 jobs in April, the Labor Department said, as part of a 38,000 job loss in the transportation and warehousing sector.

As a measure of how tough the freight rail market is these days, short lines had their best week of 2009 in hauling basic stone and related materials used in heavy construction, yet that category was

Bulk carrier Quality Distribution reduced its losses in the first quarter as it restructured to meet lower demand and reduced its debt to decrease interest payments.

The key lawmaker for transportation policies in the House of Representatives lauded President Obama’s budget plan for its unprecedented spending requests for passenger rail systems.

With all the talk about the economy starting to find a bottom to its steep downturn, large railroads are still seeing declines so large that a key industry official is sounding a warning.

A 73 percent drop in first quarter net income and 15 percent revenue slide still left rail equipment maker American Railcar Industries with $261 million in cash.

The National Industrial Transportation League “strongly” opposes attempts to cap federal size and weight limits on heavy trucks and will support raising those limits to 97,000 pounds.

Pacer International’s main business line, its intermodal segment, lost $129 million in sales or 32 percent in the first quarter as it led the company toward a $177 million net loss.

Forced to take a large write-down of “goodwill” as business weakened, intermodal provider Pacer International posted a net loss of $177.4 million for the first quarter and warned it might

Scratch another 2,000 jobs, the Class I railroads told the Surface Transportation Board.

Frozen Food Express Industries lost $6.1 million in the first quarter despite moves to cut costs in the difficult trucking environment.

Heavy truck orders for major North American manufacturers in April were down 9 percent from March and 57 percent from April 2008 with no improvement in sight, according to data compiled by FTR Associa

Intermodal and logistics firm Pacer International is promoting several executives and changing its management design, in the first phase of a restructuring that Pacer said aims to cut costs, boost com

Truckload carrier Swift Transportation is upgrading its internal document processing to pay drivers and bill customers faster as cash flow has become a major priority for carriers in the current econo

Sometimes even a good financial report can show how bad the economy is.

Retail diesel fuel sold for an average of $2.185 per gallon last week, down 1.6 cents a gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

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