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DrayQ and DrayLink to be introduced in Seattle-Tacoma in early November to improve terminal efficiency for truckers and BCOs.

PierPass Inc. discusses possible changes in its model with port stakeholders in LA-LB.

Old Dominion Freight Lines avoided damage and used technology and phones to keep close contact with customers as storm and flooding pummeled its home state.

The Western railway has lost some of its pricing power after domestic and international freight demand shrank in the third quarter.

Even when volumes rise, lower revenue shows impact of reduced rates and fuel surcharges at publicly owned carriers.

The fall shipping season of 2016 has been good to Canadian Pacific Railway.

Russian shippers and transportation companies say they will have to increase their rates double digits to keep up with the cost increases created by Russia’s “Platon” truck toll.

US regulators are increasing funding for driver-training schools and institutions serving veterans while pushing a pilot program that would license under-21 ex-military drivers.

US shippers may be concerned about trucking rate hikes in 2017 and 2018, but pricing power isn't likely to slip away from them soon.

India wants port authorities to lower rail handling charges to draw more truckloads onto intermodal trains.

A week after Hurricane Matthew’s clouds lifted, US shippers continue to experience delays or outright embargoes on cargo moving in and around eastern North Carolina where rail lines and roads remain underwater.

Quarterly net profit dropped at the third-largest trucking operator for the first time since early 2014, thanks to lower truckload and intermodal rates. Dedicated is an exception.

The Teamsters' long-haul campaign to organize XPO Logistics, as well as FedEx Freight, unfolds terminal by terminal, court decision by court decision.

Falling revenue per tractor and higher equipment and insurance costs will narrow Covenant Transport's third-quarter profits, and the truckload carrier won't be alone.

The railway said it remains dedicated to strong pricing.

The truckload carrier is reducing the size of its company fleet but hopes a pay hike will attract more independent contractors.

PSA International is making its first venture into China’s hinterland rail network.

A $13 million infusion of venture capital is slated to help a cloud-based load-tracking provider expand to new modes and new markets.

US regulators simplify the process getting training, a license, and a job in trucking for veterans and active duty military personnel.

The opening next month of a new roadway connecting Russia and China via Mongolia will open new transit options between the two regional heavyweights.

The $48.1 million bridge links Sao Paulo state with Tres Lagoas, Mato Grosso do Sul, enabling truckers to bypass several congested highways and a hydroelectric dam.

Southern California’s landmark “pool of pools” in which three equipment providers share more than 72,000 inter-operable chassis could be improved.

The postponement is the latest road-bump to a somewhat controversial program aimed at smoothing the peaks and valleys of truck traffic flows.

Upward of 20,000 empty Hanjin containers remain scattered throughout Southern California with no place to go.

Schneider National, family-owned since 1935, plans a financial lane change in 2017.

Finding and shutting down bad trucking operators remains a challenge for US regulators, as the case of a Georgia company ordered off the road Friday shows.

After two months of job creation, trucking employment numbers dropped in September, another indication of slow freight demand and excess truckload capacity.

The American Trucking Associations has spurned a proposal it lobbied hard to get: a mandate that trucks be fitted with speed limiters.

XPO Logistics will spend $425 million this year on technology to get the most out of diverse international operations and optimize customer supply chains, says CEO Bradley S. Jacobs.

The Port of Rotterdam is aiming to expand its reach into the central European hinterland via containerized rail.

Truckload rates have been declining year-over-year for six months, according to one measure, as US shippers hobbled by a slow economy demand transportation savings.

Trucking operators are slashing truck orders.

Nearly 10 percent of container traffic at the Northwest Seaport Alliance has migrated to off-peak hours since night gates began.

The Russian government has designed a set of measures that seek to ease the regulatory burden on trucking companies.

The new head of the American Trucking Associations says autonomous vehicles will benefit truck drivers, not replace them.

Truckload shippers will enjoy continued pricing power, Chainalytics' Matt Harding says. For LTL shippers, however, the outlook is costlier.

Mexican shippers and railroads are closely watching to see if a new regulatory agency will lower rates and how it will weigh in on disagreements between carriers and customers, as intermodal volume growth sputters.

A pilot program for the first truck appointment system in a terminal at the Port of New York and New Jersey will begin in October.

The Hanjin Shipping bankruptcy may be behind a recent surge in freight moving inland from West Coast ports.