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Trinity Industries, the largest North American bui

Struggling YRC Worldwide got a breather from its bankers, but its customers and Wall Street are keeping close watch on the carrier as trucking capacity and the rates shippers pay hinge on the trucking

Mullen Group Income Fund earned a profit of $7.1 m

Bulk tank truck carrier Quality Distribution poste

Officials from Class I and short line railroads ar

Montana says it plans to work at the federal level

The federal government should eliminate a rule that forces some truck drivers to undergo duplicate, costly security checks, the Small Business Administration said Feb. 27.

Construction is underway on Alabama State Port Aut

Nebraska's Supreme Court dealt a setback to BNSF R

The collapse of container traffic at the nation's

Trucks hauled more freight in January than in Dece

Kansas City Southern Railway plans to re-open a long-closed 90-mile link southwest of Houston before July.

A further weakening in freight demand portends falling freight rates through the second quarter, according to a mid-February report by freight forecaster FTR Associates.

Senate Democrats once again are trying to kill the Department of Transportation's crossborder trucking pilot project with Mexico.

Pacer International appointed Robert J. Grassi to the board of directors effective March 1.

"The bottom continues to be pushed out," said transportation equipment forecaster FTR Associates as it cut its outlook for North American railcar deliveries in 2009.

In his first address to a joint session of Congress, President Obama invoked one of the most dramatic rail construction efforts in U.S.

Rail equipment supplier Wabtec's fourth quarter profit rose 8 percent from a year earlier even though "demand softened dramatically in certain segments of the global freight rail market," its presiden

The deregulation of the U.S.

When it comes to taking it on the chin from the railroads over the fight for government funding, the trucking industry is apparently mad as hell and they're not going to take it anymore.

Private investment firm Centerbridge Partners completed its purchase of Greatwide Logistics Service in a restructuring that's expected to reduce the debt of the $1 billion logistics company by $478 mi

NEW YORK -- The deregulation of the U.S. trucking industry by the 1980 ICC Termination Act continues

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Weak imports and exports moving through Southern California are putting a strain on one of the most successful freight efficiency and congestion mitigation programs ever created for intermodal trucks.

Federal regulators have invoked their powers to pre-empt local governments, to make sure trains keep running unimpeded, to back Norfolk Southern Railway in a challenge from a Washington, D.C., suburb.

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The always competitive, sometimes cooperative relationship between railroads and trucking has been a hot topic for Traffic World since at least 1912.

The letter from the ocean carrier starts out innocuously.

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YRC Worldwide sold to and leased back from Estes Express Lines a package of LTL terminals for $122 million in a deal that will provide a much needed boost to YRC's cash reserves.

Union Pacific Railroad and CSX Transportation resumed their train movements through New Orleans, which had been disrupted for weeks after a CSX bridge fire earlier this month.

Across North America, railcar and intermodal container builders are slashing costs to guard their cash until orders begin to strengthen again.

The retail price of diesel fell 5.6 cents last week to a national average of $2.13 per gallon, accor

P.A.M. Transportation Services faced a drop in the value of its stock in the fourth quarter by writing down goodwill.

The CEO of one of the largest U.S. transportation companies opposes replacing the gas tax with a vehicle mileage tax, claiming it would be unfair to many motorists.

Wal-Mart is revamping the hiring practices in its logistics division as part of a $17 million settlement of a racial discrimination class-action lawsuit.

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Old Dominion Freight Line relocated and expanded its Cookeville, Tenn., LTL terminal in an effort to gain market share.

Marine terminals in Los Angeles-Long Beach on Thursday continued to turn away trucks that did not me

In a major decision with far-reaching implications, the Surface Transportation Board ordered BNSF Railway to pay an estimated $345 million in reparations and rate cuts to coal-burning utilities - its