Intermodal may be poised to win more freight away from TL carriers in the second half of the year due to current and impending federal regulatory efforts plus and growing driver shortage that are ...

The freight rail executive urges Union Pacific Corp. to adopt the same position it took relative to an earlier merger in that ...

The lower cost of fuel for natural gas-powered highway tractors compared to their diesel-fired brethren could make it more profitable for trucking companies to engage in longer lengths of haul for ...

This story appears in the Dec. 19 & 26 print edition of Transport Topics. Truck/rail freight’s steady growth trajectory continued in 2011, buoyed by domestic intermodal service that apparently ...

Fewer shippers moved their freight from truckload to intermodal in the second quarter as the difference in price between the services narrowed, but a shift could occur with the December electronic ...

ASF Intermodal announced that it has exceeded 300 trucks on the road, which it is calling a significant milestone in the intermodal drayage industry. “I attribute our growth and success to the team ...

There will be a new delay starting Wednesday for trucking companies serving the one major intermodal facility southwest of Chicago. The Illinois Department of Transportation announced that Walter ...

Intermodal rail—a transportation mode choice that was to take trucks off the road—is slowing down. Where is it heading? Over several decades, the premise was that railroad intermodal trailer on flat ...

The threats to public safety, the environment and the nation’s infrastructure created by allowing trucks larger than the current federal limits have been quantified by a new study released by the ...

USA Truck Inc. announced that it has entered into a long-term agreement with BNSF Railway to move private 53-foot domestic intermodal containers. USA Truck, which moved its first rail intermodal load ...

A study commissioned by the Coalition Against Bigger Trucks (CABT) asserts that allowing heavier and longer trucks on U.S. roads could divert intermodal and railcar traffic from rail to truck by as ...