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Twenty years ago, it was easy to classify companies such as Ryder/P-I-E, Consolidated Freightways and Yellow Freight System as less-than-truckload carriers: simply put, that was the type of freight they [...]

Let's face it. There are 585,677 'top' trucking companies in this country, because there are 585,677 trucking companies registered with the Department of Transportation, as of last August. Every one [...]

Operating ratios in the high 90s. Anemic earnings with profit margins, where there are any, averaging about 1 percent. Rampant bankruptcies -- 7,500 the past two years and perhaps another [...]

Multibillion-dollar global companies may increasingly dominate the LTL industry, but there's still life beyond the super-carriers, smaller, regional LTL players say. There probably are hundreds of smaller carriers focused on [...]

The regional trucking industry isn't what it used to be. Carriers once limited to hauling general freight within a few hundred miles are lengthening their lanes and offering expedited delivery, [...]

Driven by a need to cut costs in the harsh fiscal environment of the early 2000s, U.S. forwarders and shippers began moving domestic time-sensitive freight on the ground with increasing [...]

There's no secret to success in the reefer business. Pick up on time, deliver on time, buy the latest and most reliable equipment, select long-term customers, develop freight density along [...]

Everybody wants to get into regional trucking. Specifically, everybody wants to emulate the gold standard of the 21-year-old Con-Way Transportation Services group of three regional carriers, which provide most of [...]

Donations Split Between Eight Charitable Organizations to Benefit Local Children and Elderly JOPLIN, Mo. i Dec. 5, 2008 i Con-way Truckload, a full-truckload carrier and subsidiary of Con-way Inc. (NYSE: [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher UPS is offering financing for U.S. importers. With UPS Capital Cargo Finance, small U.S. importers can use their in-transit UPS shipments as collateral for loans. Instead [...]

UPS restored package delivery service in most of the area affected by Hurricane Gustav, the company said Sept. 3. Service was not restored in New Orleans, where the city government [...]

BYLINE: William B. Cassidy What can a trucker do when fuel hits $4 a gallon? Start hauling it. Schneider National Bulk is starting a fuel-hauling service in the Gulf Coast [...]

BYLINE: Ari Natter Members of Congress angry at the Department of Transportation for carrying forward with the unpopular crossborder trucking program had a chance to vent their anger to Transportation [...]

BYLINE: Thomas L. Gallagher The first U.S.-based truck crossed the Mexican border on Friday Sept. 14 as part of the Transportation Department's test trucking program. Stagecoach Cartage and Distribution, based [...]

UPS called this week for the creation of a federal Railroad Trust Fund to pay for needed capacity expansion of the nation's railroad networks. Testifying at a Surface Transportation Board [...]

YRC Worldwide is extending the overhaul of the USF regional division it launched a couple of years ago when it bought the LTL business as the company consolidates the various [...]

Xpress Direct has rapidly built a highly respected reputation by continually opening new windows in the world of expedited transportation solutions. Xpress Direct has established a track record of success [...]

Truck plants across the nation are shifting into overdrive to meet surging demand for heavy trucks, but that doen't spell relief for capacity-strapped shippers desparately searching for tractor-trailers to haul [...]

John Drewes, president of Devine Intermodal, says the backups in the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach remind him of the harbor after West Coast ports were shut down [...]

In Sacramento, Calif., an idling fuel tanker operated by Interstate Oil is shut down by remote control from more than 500 miles away. In Green Bay, Wis., the first of [...]

It is the best of times and the worst of times in trucking. It depends on whether one works for Overnite Transportation, the nation's fifth-largest stand-alone LTL carrier, or Central [...]

Shippers should be prepared to pay truckload rate increases of between 5 and 10 percent the rest of this year because of tighter capacity and tougher carrier discipline in the [...]

The less-than-truckload marketing wars heated up last week with several major carriers offering shippers their ultimate discount--free freight. LTL giants FedEx Freight, Con-Way Transportation Services and USF Corp. are upping [...]

When LTL carrier Consolidated Freightways announced on Labor Day that it was shutting down operations after 89 years in the business, it caught the attention of the U.S. military. 'It [...]

Intermodal service, often the low-price transactional stepson of the freight family, is moving up the food chain at Schneider National, Green Bay, Wis., the nation's largest truckload carrier. In fact, [...]

United Parcel Service, facing increasing competition on the ground, quietly began offering clay-definite guarantees of its residential deliveries on Aug. 1. UPS not only hopes to win back shippers that [...]

There's no shortage of top-flight regional LTL carriers in the Southeast. Shippers can have their choice of quality carriers such as Overnite Transportation and Estes Express, Richmond, Va.; Old Dominion [...]

Con-Way Transportation Services, in a precedent-setting move company officials say will shake up the staid LTL industry, is expanding its next-and second-day lanes nationally by more than 6,000 cities in [...]

Sometimes smaller is better. Sometimes a family-owned carrier can ace out the United Parcel Services of the world. Sometimes a phone call from the owner is worth all the computerized [...]

UPS is working on labor peace on several fronts as the Teamsters union promises to step up efforts to organize UPS Freight under the Teamsters banner. UPS and Teamsters agreed [...]

Swift Transportation chief Robert Cunningham rang the bell to close trading on Nasdaq the other day, joining a rush of freight executives that includes YRC's Bill Zollars and EGL's Jim [...]

In an era of too much freight and not enough capacity, a California-based fruit and vegetable supplier is taking matters into its own hands to acquire some transportation stability. Grower, [...]

Roadway Express is speeding the LTL industry's drive to become more expedited, cutting as much as a day out of its transit times, a step the LTL carrier says will [...]

Despite high fuel prices, the LTL freight market remains stable and pricing firm heading into the holiday shipping season, truckers say. Still, some LTL carriers are trolling for larger, truckload [...]

UPS is trading up in the nation's capital. After years of hosting intimate social gatherings at a townhouse a couple of blocks from the U.S. Capitol, the company is moving [...]

There's a growing debate among scholars of the rail and parcel industries (it's a special breed) about the origins of UPS's ubiquitous brown identity. The New Yorker reported this spring [...]

Saia is joining the move among LTL companies toward guaranteed service with what it calls its Xtreme Guarantee that promises shippers full money back if one of six service parameters [...]

Cardinal Logistics Management is not a trucking company. Really. But in its home state of North Carolina, the logistics provider still is known as Cardinal Freight Carriers. To end the [...]

UPS said it would start accepting Ground Authorized Return Service packages at its 40,000 drop-box locations. The service is part of an expanded focus on reverse logistics in the consumer [...]

A. Duie Pyle didn't have many of its original competitors around to invite to its 80th birthday party last year. The West Chester, Pa.-based company is one of the few [...]

When a federal judge ordered the Central States Pension Fund to make records public back in October, many current and future pensioners considered it a victory. They were further cheered [...]

Ward Trucking now offers service to and from Chicago and surrounding areas. The new service area opens up possibilities for new business from Ward's East Coast base into and out [...]

Total Logistics subsidiary Total Logistic Control and the City of Rochelle, Ill., entered a 10-year contract to provide railcar switching services. TLC has been providing switching services for six Rochelle [...]

Truckers in the Southeast are used to handling hurricanes and tropical storms, but enough is enough. 'This is unprecedented,' said Mike Schuster, executive vice president of Boca Raton, Fla.-based Super [...]

The question from the LTL executive was delivered in about as lighthearted and jocular manner as could be. 'How come you don't write this story?' he said with a grin.' [...]

Overnite Transportation will improve its transit times between California cities and several points in the Midwest from four days to three days as part of an ongoing effort to tighten [...]

The National Tank Truck Carriers published the third edition of its Cargo Tank Maintenance Manual. The revised edition includes all changes resulting from DOT Docket HM213 and all regulatory changes [...]

The federal government is tightening its control over hazardous materials such as explosives by requiring truckers that haul high profile hazmat loads to obtain special safety permits from the Federal [...]

Vital Express founder Dan Boaz hopes what's good for the fast food industry is good for fast freight. He plans to expand his small same-day delivery business from its West [...]

Crushed cartons, wet product, frozen product, hot product, shortages, late arrival, no arrival. We have all been there. Among the worst words you can hear from a customer are 'there [...]