TransCore’s Canadian Freight Index set a new record in March, topping previous record from May 2008. Volumes for March 2011 were up 35 percent from the previous year and 36 percent from the prior month.… Read More »TransCore's Canadian Freight Index Sets New Record
Updated: 4/15/2011 2:00:00 PM By Dan Leone, Staff Reporter This story appears in the April 18 print edition of Transport Topics. Click here to subscribe today. An Illinois appellate court has upheld a lower court’s… Read More »Ill. Appellate Court Upholds Liability Ruling Against C.H. Robinson for Fatal Accident
Commentary by Rolf Lockwood, Editor at Large You may not know that Navistar owns a subsidiary company called PurePower Technologies, formed last year, which has just announced the purchase of the Eaton Corporation’s aftertreatment business.… Read More »Engine Smarts: New directions in aftertreatment
Updated: 4/14/2011 8:15:00 AM The U.S. economy showed improvement from mid-February through early April, and reports from transportation services firms were mostly positive, the Federal Reserve reported. Business services, including freight-related activities, improved in most… Read More »Transportation Services Show Upswing, Fed 'Beige Book' Report Says
Old Dominion Freight Line kicked off its third annual truck tour with a stop in Tampa on Wednesday. The Old Dominion Tampa Service Center hosted the first of seven stops on the 2011 Old Dominion… Read More »Old Dominion Kicks off Nationwide Truck Tour in Tampa
Updated: 4/14/2011 8:35:00 AM Initial jobless claims jumped by 27,000 last week, the Labor Department reported Thursday. New claims increased to 412,000 for the week ended Saturday, higher than economists’ forecasts of little change at… Read More »Initial Jobless Claims Rise for Week
Starting April 25, weather permitting, routine bridge inspections on Interstate 80 over the Des Plaines River in Joliet, Ill., will require daily lane closures for approximately three weeks. The lane closures will be set and… Read More »Expect I-80 Delays in Illinois for Inspections and Construction
Updated: 4/14/2011 9:00:00 AM Prices paid to U.S. producers rose 0.7% in March, led by cost increases in energy and light trucks and automobiles, the Labor Department said Thursday. The increase in prices paid to… Read More »Producer Price Index Rises 0.7% in March
Hiring in the trucking industry picked up in the fourth quarter of 2010. Coupled with an increase in the turnover rate for linehaul truckload drivers, this portends increased demand for drivers as the economy recovers.… Read More »ATA: Increased Hiring and Rising Turnover Indicate Economic Recovery
Updated: 4/14/2011 1:00:00 PM J.B. Hunt Transport Services reported record income for its first quarter, as its trucking, intermodal and dedicated contract services segments all improved. Net income rose to $50.1 million, or 40 cents… Read More »J.B. Hunt Reports Record 1Q Income
A. Duie Pyle, a Northeast transportation and logistics provider, is reducing its impact on the environment as the company’s largest warehouse facility churns out solar energy at full capacity. Pyle’s megawatt solar installation is now… Read More »A. Duie Pyle Goes Solar
Updated: 4/12/2011 2:20:00 PM Truck traffic crossing the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario, slipped 1.4% in March from a year ago, the company that runs the bridge said Tuesday. Truck trips totaled 242,765… Read More »Ambassador Bridge Truck Traffic Crossings Slip 1.4% in March