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Standard & Poor's Ratings Services, a major ratings agency for corporate debt, lowered its long-term corporate credit rating for Kansas City Southern to “B&r

AutoInfo’s profits increased 38 percent to $2.2 million on revenue of $180.2 million in 2008 despite declining revenue in the fourth quarter due to the weakening economy.

The head of the Port of Los Angeles said Tuesday the port’s clean-trucks program is continuing without interruption despite an appeals court ruling against controversial parts of the program.

This recession could lead to fundamental change in trucking comparable to the upheaval that followed motor carrier deregulation in 1980, says Transport Capital Partners, a Nashville, Tenn.-based finan

Kansas City Southern is issuing more debt for its Mexican operations and may issue stock for its U.S.-based company, to boost liquidity as traffic and revenue fall.

Hub Group, one of the leading intermodal service middleman firms and a truck brokerage provider, said traffic and pricing have weakened its earnings outlook for the near term.

Transportation Secretary Raymond LaHood, looking to quiet a furor over a cross-border trucking program that threatens to grow into a full trade war, said Tuesday he plans to create a new version of th

London -- DSV, Scandinavia's biggest trucking and logistics company, reported 2008 net profit gained 15 percent from a year ago on strong growth in ocean and air freight volumes and a one off gain on

Trucking companies hauling steel coil in Alabama must use specially certified drivers or face fines of up to $10,000. Uncertified drivers could face fines of up to $1,000 and a year in jail.

The Port of Seattle is postponing the acquisition of the BNSF Eastside Rail Corridor because of the continuing difficulty of raising capital in the nation's bond markets.

The average cost of a gallon of diesel went up for the first time since mid-January as crude oil futures surged past $50 per barrel for the first time since November.

Standard & Poor’s assigned one of its highest investment grades on UPS debt as a result of its stable cash flow and strong position in ground parcel delivery market.

Talks between railcar manufacturer Greenbrier and General Electric’s car leasing unit to curb or delay a huge order “are currently stalled,” said Greenbrier President and CEO William

The deadline for all truck drivers entering terminals in the Port of New York and New Jersey to have TWIC cards is Monday, March 23, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey said in an urgent rem

A fight between railroads and chlorine shippers is turning caustic.

The largest long-term concern for the domestic trucking industry for many years, at least up to last year, was a looming shortage of qualified drivers. No one is talking about that anymore.

Congress finally killed a program allowing U.S.

Federal officials rushing to roll out the Transportation Worker Identification Credential are getting some help from an unexpected quarter — the recession.

A new short line railroad that will speed intermodal service in the New England-New York corridor will start rolling as early as May after winning approval from federal regulators.

The Port of Long Beach plans to make its clean-truck and motor carrier subsidy programs more attractive through an incentive package that the Board of Harbor Commissioners will be asked to consider at

New stimulus spending by the Canadian federal government is hurrying along the upgrading of the Canadian half of the Blue Water Bridge, the second busiest Canada-United States commercial border crossi

In a major victory for the harbor trucking industry, the U.S.

OD Global, a division of less-than-truckload carrier Old Dominion Freight Line, expanded its trade management service to incorporate new Importer Security Filing requirements, known as U.S.

YRC Worldwide regional less-than-truckload subsidiary USF Holland will close 11 terminals, representing 15 percent of Holland's network, by April 6 to cope with weak freight demand throughout its syst

The rush by shippers away from trucking heavyweight YRC Worldwide in response to the company’s fragile financial and operating position – both real and perceived – has shifted into r

North America’s small railroads continued reporting heavy traffic declines in the second week of March, as the RMI RailConnect index said volume for all cargo types fell 24.69 percent in the wee

President Obama said he plans to nominate Robert S.

Cross-country intermodal partners BNSF Railway in the West and CSX Intermodal in the East recently expanded their container service to more Southeast cities.

The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) warned March 19 of the damage that could result from the announcement that the government of Mexico will impose tariffs on U.S.

Trucking activity, a bellwether of general trade and economic conditions, is in sharp decline along the United States-Canada border.

The Greenbrier Hotel filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protections, and said it has a deal under which Marriott will buy the resort owned by railroad operator CSX Corp.

London – France’s main seaports are at a standstill and rail freight is being severely disrupted as thousands of longshoremen and rail workers join a general strike to protest the governme

The U.S.

FedEx earnings plunged in the company’s fiscal third quarter as a result of the global recession.

President Obama said he wants Joseph C. Szabo, the state legislative director in Illinois for the United Transportation Union, to head the Federal Railroad Administration.

Montreal-based TransForce, Canada's largest all-categories trucking/logistics firm, reports buckling down to a "deteriorating" business economy in North America with hiring and salary freeze

Class I railroads as a group cut 1,678 jobs by mid-January from a month earlier, as the recession deepened and freight traffic remained sharply below year-earlier levels.

The weakening economy reared its head in the latest data on trade between the United States, Canada and Mexico, showing year-over-year surface transportation growth of imports and exports in 2008 to b