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Central Freight Lines is using software from Cheetah Freight to book more freight and strip out miles with fewer people.

The Transportation Security Administration needs to dig deeper to find out how protected the nation’s trucks are against a terrorist attack, according to the U.S.

Beginning May 1, MOL's Gator Guarantee will provide a service guarantee on the company's own vessel strings, the Pacific Southwest Express and Japan-American Shuttle.

Trade using surface transportation between the United States and its North American Free Trade Agreement partners Canada and Mexico took its steepest dive ever in January to the lowest monthly dollar

The average retail price of diesel fuel soared 13.1 cents last week to $2.221 per gallon, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Lawyers representing the American Trucking Associations and the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach on April 27 will present oral arguments in the ports’ clean-truck case.

Cummins Turbo Technologies will consolidate its turbocharger operations in Charleston, S.C., from two facilities to one over the next 18 months.

Con-way’s less-than-truckload subsidiary Con-way Freight is accelerating transit times between Washington's Tri-Cities area and eastern Idaho to support local farms during the region's peak plan

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Rates for truckload services will fall about 4 percent this year as U.S. shippers seek to lock low spot market pricing into long-term contracts, a transportation industry analyst said.

The Department of Transportation should have legislation drafted to allow Mexican trucks to operate in the United States by the time President Obama visits Mexico on April 16 and 17, according to a de

London -- Deutsche Bahn, Europe's biggest rail cargo carrier, reported higher earnings and revenue in 2008 compared with a year ago, even as freight traffic collapsed in the fourth quarter.

Less-than-truckload carriers are seeing demand leave the market faster than they can withdraw capacity, and they are trying to catch up.

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While carriers and shippers see a transportation landscape littered with empty trailers, shuttered carrier offices, parked trucks and idled ships, freight brokers see opportunities.

Trucking companies and the shippers relying on them could see fuel costs take another hit — fired from the bow of the maritime industry.

When President Obama reached into the labor ranks to choose the next chief of the Federal Railroad Administration, he handed the job of top rail safety regulator to someone who has spent years pursuin

Transportation labor applauded President Obama’s choice of Randy Babbitt, former chief of the Air Line Pilots Association, to be the next Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration.

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Old Dominion Freight Line doubled its capacity in South Bend, Ind. with its relocation to a 55-door less-than-truckload terminal five miles north of its current facility.

Mid-States Express, a major player in the Midwestern regional less-than-truckload market, was forced to shut down yesterday after their financing was cut off, according to a source at one of the carri

A key rail customers’ lobby group is urging Congress to sharply expand the size of the Surface Transportation Board, to give the agency the muscle to regulate freight railroads more forcefully a

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Karen J. Rae takes office March 30 as deputy administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration, the first appointee by President Obama to move into the agency.

Small trucking companies are calling on the Obama Administration to suspend plans to establish another cross-border trucking program with Mexico until Mexico meets U.S.

A key index of short line railroad traffic hit its worst percentage drop of 2009, falling 27.88 percent in the week ending March 21.

President Obama formally tendered the nominations of Joseph C. Szabo as administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration, and Linda A. Puchala to serve on the National Mediation Board.

The Indianapolis-based regional Indiana Rail Road wants the Surface Transportation Board quickly to approve its plan to build a 5.2-mile link to a large new coal mine.

OD Global and Hanjin Shipping are partnering in a less-than container load service from China to the United States to speed international transit times.

Major freight railroads got another week of less-bad news, as the year-over-year carload decline was the mildest in the past four weeks.

The Port of Los Angeles is launching an incentive program to encourage ocean carriers to move more containers by rail into the port.

The American Trucking Associations is accusing the City of Los Angeles of misleading the public about ATA’s stance on the Port of Los Angeles clean-trucks program as a way for the port to divert

Truck tonnage increased 1.7 percent in February from January based on the American Trucking Associations’ monthly survey of approximately 37,000 members.

The federal government is providing millions of dollars in stimulus funding for transportation projects that create jobs and reduce pollution, but applicants must move quickly in order to qualify for

The recession still has a tight grip on the trucking industry, but some truckload carriers may finally be seeing the first signs of recovery, an industry consultant says.

As chair of the full Environment and Public Works Committee, Senator Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., opened a hearing March 25 on the need for transportation investment in relation to the next highway, trans

The international president of the largest rail labor organization, the United Transportation Union, is calling for railroads and customers to settle their fight over rail industry regulation, and rea

Norfolk Southern Railway said Mark D. Manion will be chief operating officer of its parent corporation as of April 1, with the March 31 retirement of Stephen C.

FedEx is holding billions of dollars worth of business – and jobs – over the heads of Congress and the Obama administration by conditioning future aircraft purchases on keeping its parcel

The Highway Trust Fund is likely to run dry this summer unless the president and Congress provide an infusion of money, according to the president of the American Association of State Highway and Tran