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Truck fuel kept falling last week as crude oil stayed in the $40 per barrel range. The average cost

Copyright 2009, Traffic World, Inc.Averitt Express took a pass on raising general base rates

The largest big-shipment trucking company in the world is in a race against the calendar to avoid go

Copyright 2009, Traffic World, Inc.J.B. Hunt Transport Services posted net income of $53.3 m

UPS Freight is speeding delivery times on 2,250 lanes in Texas and southern Oklahoma as part of a lo

Copyright 2009, Traffic World, Inc.Knight Transportation''s net income increased 16.8 percen

Averitt Express opened four service centers in Texas, expanding the number of facilities in the stat

The board of directors of J.B. Hunt Transport Services elected telecommunications industry executive

Copyright 2009, Traffic World, Inc.Truckload carrier USA Truck eked out a $600,000 profit in

Old Dominion Freight Line will increase its base rates effective Feb. 16. "The general incre

A British electric truck maker is plugging into the U.S. market, with plans to build and sell a line

Total net orders for class 8 vehicles from all heavy truck manufacturers in North America dropped 12

Charles D. Nottingham plans to stay on as one of three commissioners of the Surface Transportation B

Patriot Transportation Holding improved net income 24 percent in its first fiscal quarter, which end

U.S. rail traffic fell 17.3 percent in the fourth week of 2009. Carloads were off 18.4 percent while

A weak U.S. dollar boosted Wabco's flat annual sales 7 percent to $2.6 billion. But in the fourth qu

Ryder profit plunged 85 percent in the fourth quarter as a restructuring charge took a big bite out

Union Pacific Railroad agreed to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Equal Emplo

Volvo Trucks North America will lay off 650 hourly workers at its truck assembly plant in Dublin, Va

A sharp drop in demand in the fourth quarter slashed revenue and net income for truck engine maker C

Old Dominion Freight Line opened a service center in Columbus, Ga.The 21-door facility on a

Covenant Transportation Group lost $40 million in the fourth quarter as a result of the weak economy

Short line operator Watco got an early start on its Grand Elk Railroad project in Michigan, after th

Warren Buffett now controls more than 22.6 percent of BNSF, parent of the largest railroad on the co

Kansas City Southern, smallest of the top-tier group of North American railroad firms, saw its fourt

Copyright 2009, Traffic World, Inc.LTL carriers that employ smart managers and maintain stro

When intermodal business fell after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, U.S. railroads reacted

Copyright 2009, Traffic World, Inc.Swift Transportation named Richard Stocking president and

Copyright 2009, Traffic World, Inc.Con-way's $43 million loss in the fourth quarter provided

Copyright 2009, Traffic World, Inc.Regional LTL carrier Peninsula Truck Lines opened a new t

Kansas City Southern named James E. Fisk vice president and chief mechanical officer. Mr. Fisk will

The average price for diesel fuel in the United States last week was $2.246 per gallon, down 2.2 cen

Copyright 2009, Traffic World, Inc.A new round of large production cuts and layoffs by heavy

Copyright 2009, Traffic World, Inc.Even as they roll in profits, North America's railroads a

Copyright 2009, Traffic World, Inc.Canadian Pacific Railway, second-largest carrier in Canad

As manufacturers and retailers watch consumer demand plummet, there's one area of at least mild sola

CN late Jan. 31 completed its acquisition of the principal lines of the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern

Copyright 2009, Traffic World, Inc.Truckload carrier Marten Transport increased profits 96.4

Intermodal marketer and truck broker Hub Group saw its profit shrink 21 percent in the fourth quarte

Truck manufacturer Paccar took a solid hit from reduced gross margins, lower build rates and tempora