Trucking News

J. Harwood Cochrane, 100, founder of Overnite Transportation, and Jack Holmes, president of UPS Freight, discuss less-than-truckload’s origins and the trucking industry's multimodal future.

The American Trucking Associations’ advanced seasonally adjusted For-Hire Trucking Tonnage Index slipped 0.4 percent in July from June, to 125.4, after inching up 0.1 percent in June.

Old Dominion Freight Line has opened a 100-door facility southwest of Chicago.

The number of truck drivers remains below its peak, as driver pay lags U.S. average wages.

The U.S. economy marked a milestone in June: the beginning of a fifth straight year of recovery as measured by growth in gross domestic product. Don’t worry, you didn’t miss the ticker-tape parade. With GDP increasing 1.1 percent and 1.7 percent in the first and second quarters of 2013, no one’s in much of a mood to celebrate.

PTA Holdings is expanding its refrigerated truckload business, adding a baked goods shipper in San Antonio, Texas, to balance northbound and southbound loads.

FTR Associates’ Shippers Conditions Index for June fell “only marginally” from the previous month to a reading of negative 8.1.

Marine terminal gates at the Port of Oakland were beginning to reopen at noon Monday following a morning-long blockade by owner-operator truck drivers protesting slow turn times at marine terminals.

Roadrunner Transportation Systems has acquired certain assets of the U.S. Southeast drayage division of Transport Corp. of America, an intermodal transportation provider in the Southeast, for about $1.2 million.

Direct ChassisLink Inc. plans to participate in a new pilot program to offer premium chassis with radial tires in Consolidated Chassis Management's South Atlantic Chassis Pool.

YRC Worldwide's stock has been on a wild ride the past few months, but the trucking operator is steadily narrowing losses and striving to make long-term improvements in LTL operations.

Roadrunner Transportation Systems has commenced a public offering of 4.3 million shares of its common stock, at a price of $27.00 per share to the public.

Statistics from 2010 and 2011 suggest that the Brazilian states of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro claim 83 percent of all recorded cargo crime incidents in Brazil...

UPS Freight will open a facility in Indianapolis on Monday, Aug. 12.

Arkansas Best today reported net income of $4.9 million in the second quarter of 2013, down from $11.8 million in the same period last year.

Spot market truck traffic increased 3 percent in July from June, the first sequential monthly increase in July since 1996, according to load-matching service DAT.

Old Dominion Freight Line has expanded its facility in Manassas, Va., and opened a new facility in Rapid City, S.D., continuing its nationwide expansion program.

North America’s Class 8 net truck orders in July reached 17,307 units, the lowest level since September 2012, dropping 7 percent compared with the previous month, according to FTR Associates’ preliminary data.

Schneider National is adding 200 truck drivers in Arizona and opening a facility in Phoenix.

YRC Worldwide today reported a net loss of $15.1 million in the second quarter of 2013, compared with a net loss of $22.6 million in the second quarter of 2012.

CK Commercial Vehicle Research’s latest Fleet Sentiment Report predicted increased activity for Class 8 truck orders in the third quarter of 2013.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Circuit Judge Janice Rogers Brown wrote that the recent federal appeals court decision on the new hours-of-service rules “brings an end to much of the permanent warfare” between regulators, safety advocates and the trucking industry. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit decision, which upholds most of the new truck driving rules, may have ended the battle, but the war over highway safety is far from finished.

A U.S. appeals court on Friday upheld the majority of new federal hours of service rules, but rejected a 30-minute rest requirement for short-haul drivers, potentially ending a vicious and drawn-out battle between the trucking industry and regulators.

Two years into a reorganization that has sharply reduced net losses and led to operating profit, YRC Worldwide is confident enough to consider its first major public stock offering in years as a means of cutting long-term debt from its books.

The European Union is ratcheting up efforts to boost short-sea shipping with plans for an attack on customs red tape that will allow sea transport to compete with trucks and trains in moving freight among its 28 member states.

FreightWatch International, a logistics security services company, reported a total of 295 cargo thefts in Mexico in the second quarter of 2013.

Roadrunner Transportation Systems today reported its net income available to common stockholders in the second quarter of 2013 was $14.0 million, jumping 37.0 percent from $10.2 million in the second quarter of 2012.

The latest changes to the truck driver hours of service rules are being challenged by a congressman from New York.

The peak shipping season this fall should be uneventful, with only a modest increase in cargo volume, a temporary spike in freight rates and no real shortages of transportation capacity or equipment to disrupt the supply chain, according to industry experts who spoke at a Journal of Commerce webcast Tuesday.

ABF Freight System and the Teamsters union extended their current contract through Aug. 31, as the less-than-truckload carrier and union work on supplemental agreements rejected last month by ABF’s Teamster employees.

Celadon Group reported its net income decreased 20.0 percent to $7.2 million in the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2013, ending June 30, 2013, from $9.0 million in the same quarter last year.

Apex Freight Services has acquired Timberline Freight Services, a Colorado-based, full and less-than-truckload transportation company specializing in the movement of temperature-sensitive goods.

Towne Air Freight has ordered 300 new Great Dane trailers, worth $9 million, to increase its fleet and retire older equipment.

Buoyed by stronger confidence in business trends, truckload carriers plan to add capacity — but not too much capacity, according to a second quarter survey.

Landstar System reported its profit in the second quarter of 2013 was $30.4 million, dropping 15.1 percent from $35.9 million in the second quarter of 2012.

TransForce reported its net income in the second quarter of 2013 was C$26.6 million (about US$25.8 million), versus C$34.1 million in the second quarter of 2012.

A federal court again rejected challenges to the U.S. cross-border trucking program with Mexico, which has seen traffic increase this year but remains small.