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A group of 11 shippers dropped their class action lawsuit alleging the nation’s largest less-than-truckload carriers conspired to fix fuel surcharge prices.

California motor carriers are asking the state air quality board to slow down adoption of its proposed low-carbon fuel standard that the industry says could cause the cost of diesel fuel to double.

Ryder System is slashing its first quarter earnings estimates by roughly half due primarily to the beating its fleet management division is taking from the slowing economy.

UPS Freight expanded its door-to-door less-than-truckload service in Mexico and shortened transit times in Canada in a move to solidify its market position in anticipation of a stronger economy.

Trucker YRC Worldwide, announcing a new series of cutbacks and charges in its troubled business, said Tuesday tonnage at its national less-than-truckload declined 29 percent in the first quarter.

As he settles in as the new head of the Surface Transportation Board, the changes that Francis P. Mulvey brings may be more of emphasis than direction.

Third party logistics provider C.H.

The new head of the Surface Transportation Board wants to fix some of the agency's creaky infrastructure.

Debt rating agency Standard & Poor’s took railroad operator Kansas City Southern off its CreditWatch list, after the company’s Mexican subsidiary privately sold $200 million in seven-y

American Trucking Associations president Bill Graves told U.S.

The average retail price of diesel fuel last week rose seven-tenths of a cent to $2.228 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

The American Trucking Associations asked the U.S.

BNSF is taking advantage of the slack in freight volume this year to cut time off its intermodal services but saying those improvements will outlast the downturn.

Canadian Pacific Railway temporarily shut down its line that connects the cities of Emerson and Winnipeg, after Red River flooding pushed out of North Dakota and across the Manitoba border into Canada

The Surface Transportation Board may be on a path toward big changes in the way it oversees railroad rates and service.

In many ways, cargo business on the West Coast can be as much about railroad operations as port operations.

Refrigerated trucker Frozen Food Express, which had withstood the economic downturn with growing profits and revenue last year, announced it has cut 150 positions and is taking other actions to reduce

New Class 8 truck orders through March were “dismal,” according to preliminary data from industry analyst FTR Associates.

Norfolk Southern Railway said its train system and industrial development work helped spur more than $2.2 billion in new shipper facilities or expansions last year.

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Revenue for third-party logistics providers dropped by 6.7 percent during the first quarter of 2009 compared with the first quarter of last year, according to a survey by Armstrong & Associates.

Union Pacific Railroad plans to “hold firm” on pricing despite declining demand for rail freight transport, an investment analyst said in a report April 3 after meetings with UP management

If there's a recession out there it's not taking place in the ballroom of the Grand Hyatt Downtown San Antonio.

Discussions among congressional staff, rail customers and railroads to craft new competition rules for that industry “are moving along nicely,” said Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va.

Big shippers with plenty of pricing power are favoring third party logistics providers with heavy assets behind their name.

Weather problems flattened traffic overall for the largest U.S. railroads in the week ending March 28, but even so some cargoes linked to economic demand picked up.

A key measure of industrial shipping in the United States showed shipments declined 22 percent in March from the same month a year ago, suggesting retailers and manufacturers were retrenching still mo

Con-way Freight is spanning the Atlantic with express transport giant TNT in a bid to load more European freight into U.S. trucks.

New orders for manufactured durable goods increased in February for the first time in six months, according to a report from the U.S. Census Bureau on April 2.

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have each been collecting more than $200,000 a day in clean-trucks fees since Feb.18.

The union representing train engineers is flatly opposing a proposed law to strip the big freight rail lines of their limited antitrust immunity, and urging key lawmakers to meet with shippers and car

Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland is expected to sign a bill April 1 that would raise the state speed limit for trucks on state highways from 55 mph to 65 mph.

Representatives of large trucking companies and small independent operators are shifting into high gear in the battle over truck size and weight limits on Capitol Hill.

The Superior Court of Washington for King County ruled FedEx Ground pick up and delivery drivers are independent contractors and not legally full-time employees.

Corporate relocation expert Atlas World Group named two top executives following the retirement of former chairman Jim Stamm.

Partly to boost its cash levels, Canadian Pacific Railway said it plans to slash its joint ownership of the Detroit River Tunnel Partnership to just 16.5 percent from 50 percent now, while its pension

Canadian National Railway shifted four senior operations officials to new roles in running different parts of the railroad.

YRC Worldwide will fire 600 nonunion employees in the next several weeks as a result of its Yellow Transportation-Roadway integration and weak business volume brought on by the weak economy.

Canadian Pacific Railway is getting ready for the Red River flood to move north and possibly disrupt freight traffic there as it has in North Dakota.

It may be the oldest of the big U.S. freight lines, but Union Pacific Railroad this week pushed out an innovative Web site makeover that it says is part of a “brand refresh.”