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A team of researchers from Auburn University is delving into the dynamics of less-than-truckload pricing as LTL trucking companies struggle to raise rates. The researchers hope the study will lead [...]

The Western Governors Association believes there's ample room for longer combination vehicles on High Plains highways, but must convince Congress to thaw a freeze limiting the use of double- and [...]

A strategy of housing asset-intensive trucking and non-asset based logistics in the same corporation did not survive the freight downturn at YRC Worldwide. The financially troubled transport giant sold its [...]

Less-than-truckload carriers haven't always been keen customers of freight brokers, but many operators are turning to third-party logistics in a search for new business. At June's SMC3 Summer Conference in [...]

Watching containers stuffed with clothing trucked off the docks at the Port of Los Angeles in early June, Wayne Bourne wasn't much worried about a double-dip recession or economic slowdown. [...]

Expedited trucking is a premium service, commanding a premium price. But that price might not be as high as shippers think, carrier executives said. 'We're going to be higher than [...]

When a shipment absolutely, positively has to arrive no later than yesterday, what do shippers do? First they pray . . . then they call an expedited trucking company. The [...]

Data Quality isn't just the concern of billion-dollar carriers such as U.S. Xpress Enterprises. 'Most trucking companies I talk to have thousands of spreadsheets, lots of clutter,' said Tim Leonard, [...]

AAPA Seeks 25 Percent of TIGER Grants for Ports To put it bluntly, the American Association of Port Authorities believes it got jobbed in the first round of discretionary transportation [...]

Although Echo Global Logistics is grounded in trucking, 'I'm kind of the only trucker here,' CEO Doug Waggoner said. That's an advantage for Waggoner and Echo. 'In transportation, people tend [...]

The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach spent almost $80 million combined on incentives to get carriers and owner-operators driving clean diesel trucks. At the May 5 hearing on [...]

For the second time in a year, the Teamsters union is offering a major trucking employer significant concessions to keep its trucks and drivers in the battle for shippers. The [...]

Q: We are a manufacturer that ships mostly to grocery warehouses via truckload or less-than-truckload carriers. We recently started using an LTL carrier that has the customer sign a handheld [...]

Deutsche Post DHL's chief executive sees 'clear signs' that a global economic comeback is under way, but says potential threats to a recovery still loom. 'The worst seems to be [...]

The only dispute in the truckload industry over the direction of rates this spring is whether pricing is going up fast or very fast. Shippers, carrier executives and freight brokers [...]

The trucking industry shrank rapidly last year, as the worst financial crisis in decades eliminated billions of dollars in freight revenue and erased years of growth at many carriers. The [...]

Knight Transportation is considering the potential acquisition of a fellow truckload carrier that generated about $450 million in revenue last year. The deal would almost double the size of Knight, [...]

Ship Capacity Set to Jump Help appears to be on the way for space-constrained importers and exporters in container shipping markets, especially out of Asia, as carriers are expected to [...]

The U.N. World Food Program last month began a second, more targeted round of food distribution in Haiti, but its logistics effort is complicated by the shifting population as refugees [...]

Container terminal operators in Los Angeles-Long Beach have taken their lumps over the years because of congestion problems, but they have also been innovators in reducing gate delays through the [...]

If an iPod can hold a bookcase full of CDs and a Kindle a small library of books, how long will it be before fewer trucks and containers are needed [...]

More trucking company failures and higher truckload rates may be coming sooner than many shippers think. 'I think by May we'll really see rates start to go up, and not [...]

Anyone wondering where questions surrounding U.S. exports intersect with concerns over transportation will find plenty of time to contemplate the issues while waiting in a line of trucks at the [...]

New York-New Jersey port officials say persuading diverse labor, environmentalist and employer groups to unite behind a clean-trucks program was like herding cats. Now the challenge is how to keep [...]

At first glance, the former president and CEO of FedEx Freight might seem an anomaly on the board of J.B. Hunt Transport Services.FedEx Freight and J.B. Hunt both operate trucks, [...]

Since trucking industry deregulation in 1980, more than 30 unionized, non-union, national and regional less-than-truckload carriers have left the market. However, only two new LTL carriers (Con-way Freight and American [...]

Oregon introduced the first state gas tax in the U.S. in 1919, and Rep. Earl Blumenauer hopes the state leads the way in dumping it, too. The Democrat from Portland [...]

New York City is many times larger than Stockholm, but the Big Apple could learn some lessons from Sweden's capital. After a fractious debate, Stockholm implemented a successful congestion pricing [...]

Detroit's Ambassador Bridge, the busiest U.S.-Canadian border crossing, handled far fewer trucks than usual last year, as the recession drove the number of commercial vehicles using the span down by [...]

Driver pay has been a factor in driver shortages since at least 1914, when a publication called Motor Truck reported, 'Nearly all employers complain of the great difficulty of securing [...]

The White House is looking for a route around roadblocks to a new cross-border trucking agreement with Mexico, hoping to end a year-long trade dispute hurting many U.S. companies. Last [...]

Cancellations Slash 6.7 Percent From Box Ship Orderbook Ocean carriers and charter ship owners, racing to cut costs and capacity in a market downturn that created a glut of supply, [...]

BYLINE: William B. Cassidy More than a month after the Jan. 12 Haiti earthquake, relief efforts are shifting gears to meet changing demands, says Tom O'Malley, vice president of cargo [...]

When it comes to rapid response to a disaster the magnitude of the Haiti earthquake, size matters. The World Food Program, the world's largest humanitarian relief organization, mustered land, sea [...]

The trucking industry is adding its voice to a coalition demanding tighter federal regulation of trading in commodity derivatives. Its goal is to put a choke collar on Wall Street [...]

When heavy snows and frigid weather hit much of the nation in the first two weeks of the year, several states lifted weight restrictions on trucks, some to help endangered [...]

Trucking executives had a handy source of confetti New Year's Eve: all those less-than-truckload contracts they shredded in a fourth-quarter price war. Deep discounting in the country's expedited trucking market [...]

The supply chain executive suite is looking pretty green for 2010, but it isn't because of the color of money. Cash-strapped companies are closely scrutinizing their environmental plans, experts say, [...]

With their striking orange-on-black color scheme, Schneider Regional trucks are the reverse image of Schneider National's familiar black-on-orange units. That's fitting for a division that's quickly changing the truckload giant's [...]

If drayage operators had any question that polluting trucks have no future in California, clean-trucks plans implemented at the port and state levels at the start of the new year [...]

Ongoing battles over proposed cap-and-trade legislation and efforts by ports to gain more control over harbor trucking will carry over into 2010. In 2008, the American Trucking Associations sued the [...]

When cargo volume in the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex was booming two years ago, terminal operators opened gates early, worked through the lunch hour and offered five night and [...]

For years, when a trailer door closed at a private fleet, another opened in dedicated contract carriage. That's changing as economic retrenchment chokes billion of dollars from supply chains, slashing [...]

One factor spurring fresh consideration of outsourcing private fleets to dedicated fleet operators is the proliferation of environmental regulations on trucks. In 2008, the California Air Resources Board adopted stringent [...]

While other truckload carriers are laying up trucks to wring extra capacity out of their networks, Con-way Truckload is shifting capacity to its potentially more profitable short-haul service. The company's [...]

Surviving in the hyper-competitive harbor drayage industry has always been difficult, and a proliferation of clean-air programs has upped the ante for port truckers even more. Ten small and mid-size [...]

Bankruptcy may be the end of the road for many trucking companies, but it's becoming a route out of the recession for a few. And for investors willing to pick [...]

When ocean carriers approach Southern California harbor trucking companies for rate quotes, the truckers have a stock answer: 'We don't know what our rates are going to be this year.' [...]

President www.ndtahq.com This will be a challenging year for many of our members. The fallout from the mortgage loan industry and decline in the housing and automotive markets impact the [...]

Advice to truckers: Squeaky wheels get the grease Harbor truckers have long complained about having to deliver containers and chassis to off-terminal depots for free or for rates that don't [...]