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Federal regulators cleared the way for Indiana Rail Road to begin building a rail spur toward a new Peabody Energy coal mining site in southwestern Indiana.

Old Dominion Freight Line relocated a service center in Denver to improve efficiency and reduce handling.

Ontario, Canada will begin a pilot program this summer to assess the benefits of pulling two 53-ft. trailers behind one cab.

Werner Enterprises says a tough first quarter ended with an upturn in shipping demand that carried over into April.

The aftermarket for medium and heavy duty truck parts will increase 3.8 percent annually to $17.1 billion in 2013 partly as a result of carriers placing heavier demand on fleets during the current rec

USA Truck lost $1.88 million in the first quarter as a result of a heavy decrease in volume due to the slowing economy and customer inventory reductions.

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Terry M. Endsley, the chief financial officer and a board member of truck manufacturer Navistar International, died April 14 of cancer, the company announced.

Truckload carrier Heartland Express remained profitable in the first quarter despite a 22.8 percent drop in revenue and sinking demand for freight capacity.

London -- French fishermen lifted their two day blockade of three northern French ports early today, April 16, freeing several hundred stranded trucks in Britain and France to board freight ferries.

Landstar System's net profit fell 41.4 percent and revenue declined 22.9 percent in the first quarter as slack demand for truck capacity staggered the non-asset based trucking and brokerage comp

FreightCar America is suspending work at a railcar plant in Roanoke, Va., local news services say, in a move that affects 210 workers.

London -- Trucking between the UK and France risks total shutdown starting April 16 as French fishermen threatened to extend their blockade of ports to the cross channel tunnel.

By the middle of February, employment levels at the U.S. operations of the seven Class I railroads had been set back by four years.

The Surface Transportation Board will air out some of the most controversial issues between railroads and their customers, in a wide-ranging public hearing on competition issues May 18 and 19.

Rail giant CSX said its profit fell 30 percent to $246 million in the first three months of 2009, as revenue fell 17 percent to $2.25 billion.

The Mexican trucking trade group Canacar filed a notice of arbitration against the United States, alleging that cancellation of the cross-border trucking pilot program violated the North American Free

Canadian National Railway reported 50 instances when its trains or those of a short line it bought blocked road crossings in the Chicago area, in the first two months since it took over those tracks e

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The average retail price of diesel fuel went up one-tenth of a cent last week to $2.229 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

"It's really going to have to be a federal vision, with some federal funding."

Truck brokers tapping the $160 billion 3PL market appear to be adjusting to and recovering from overcapacity and scarce freight faster than their customers.

YRC Worldwide is looking to defer millions of dollars worth of payments into Teamster union pension funds to help prop up the company’s cash reserves as it struggles to improve its finances in t

Mexican officials want a cross-border truck program that goes beyond the pilot program that the Bush administration launched in 2007, according to Bloomberg.

A traffic decline of 30.2 percent from the same week last year was actually a bit of good news from the short line railroad industry. Things had been even worse the week before.

America’s freight sector is getting stimulated.

"It's not a technology leap. It's an incremental move."

"If the needs match up, then it will get done."

At the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Chairman Jon Wellinghoff has been thinking about freight railroads.

"You at least have to start with a dual locomotive."

“I wouldn’t have a problem with the federal government helping the freight railroads invest.”

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"What he’s really talking about ... is Phase I of the Interstate II idea.”

Sometimes it takes a whole team of railroads to haul a project cargo.

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As efforts continue in Congress to craft a new rail competition bill that shippers and railroads can both accept, a top railroad CEO says the pivotal lawmakers understand the need for rail firms to ea

Another week of unusually tough springtime weather, on top of a still-bad economy, left bulk railcar volume down 20.5 percent in the latest week for major U.S. railroads.

Although the Red River is subsiding in North Dakota so that railroads can start to dig out or mop up from heavy flooding, damage reports are still coming in.

It is a measure of how bad things are in the rail supply market that equipment builder Greenbrier spent much of its latest earnings announcement talking about ways it is guarding its cash position.