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Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.The financial disaster barreling down Wall Street could s

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.After waging a long, bitter fight against dissident inves

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.Hurricane Ike might have missed landing its hardest punch

In this era of large container ships and high-volume intermodal rail corridors, it makes sense that

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.YRC Worldwide is eliminating an administration center in

Not content with a strike against West Coast carrier Oak Harbor Freight Lines, the Teamsters began a

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.Norfolk Southern Railway''s bid to unite with Pan Am Rail

Less-than-truckload carrier Saia laid off approximately 400 workers in the face of falling demand fo

Norfolk Southern Railway's bid to unite with Pan Am Railways in a New England joint venture network

YRC Worldwide, nervous about the potential for a lockdown in the credit markets meltdown, drew $325

The Federal Railroad Administration is ordering a halt to railroad operators using cell phones and o

U.S. Xpress Enterprises will acquire a 47 percent interest in Smith Transport and its affiliated com

Genesee & Wyoming expanded its holdings in the South and Midwest with the acquisition Oct. 1 of

Hurricane Ike and the national credit crunch combined for a one-two punch that clobbered freight rai

Schneider National is optimizing loads and drivers with software from Manhattan Associates.

A major shipper complaint against fuel surcharges levied by Union Pacific Railroad appears headed fo

Kerry Asia Road Transport launched service between China and Thailand and plans to carry freight to

Con-way slashed their profit outlook anywhere from 7 to 23 percent as the faltering economy is expec

Truck traffic in Los Angeles-Long Beach was down considerably Wednesday morning as the ports launche

YRC Worldwide is closing a revenue management center in Topeka, Kan., at the end of the year. The tr

LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Starting Wednesday, all pre-1989 trucks will be banned from the harbor and mot

Con-way Multimodal, the nationwide truckload brokerage division of Menlo Worldwide Logistics, launch

Union Pacific elected Michael R. McCarthy to the railroad's board of directors, effective Oct. 1.

The Surface Transportation Board gave conditional approval Tuesday to Canadian Pacific Railway's pur

Phillip C. Yeager, 80, the founder and chairman of one of the nation's largest freight transportatio

The North Carolina Trucking Association elected Tommy West as chairman. West, an owner of transporta

Canadian National Railway is seeking an express track around the Surface Transportation Board by ask

Canadian National Railway is seeking an express track around the Surface Transportation Board by ask

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.Carriers starving for freight are looking to make money a

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.Teamsters at Pacific Northwestern LTL Oak Harbor Freight

Volatile fuel prices are providing relief for some carriers and causing havoc for others as the truc

The retail average price for a gallon of diesel fuel dipped one-tenth of a cent this week to $3.959,

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.The sudden drop in diesel prices lately, along with "stro

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.YRC Worldwide named Timothy A. Wicks executive vice presi

Losses mounted at Velocity Express in the quarter ending June 28, the company reported last week.

The financial crisis that's putting a new squeeze on freight transportation is also shining harsh li

Copyright 2008, Traffic World, Inc.It''s been weeks since hurricanes Gustav and Ike pummeled

The Port of Los Angeles on Wednesday announced that it will delay collection of the $35 per-TEU clea

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have weathered initial legal challenges to their clean-truck

At least the rail industry could blame the weather."Freight traffic on U.S. railroads was of