Journals By Industry - Trucking Sector Performance

Slowly but surely, trucking is emerging from recession, and trucking company leaders all over die country are anxiously watching the bottom line, determined not to falter now that the sun is finally coming...

For-hire carriers added 5,100 new jobs last month, making December the fourth consecutive month in which trucking industry job growth has been positive after slumping late in the summer. December's gains represented the...

HEADNOTE Economy, Rates Helping Carriers, Report Says Trucking company failures reached the second-lowest level ever during 201 Is fourth quarter, reflecting the industry's improving financial fortunes, according to a new report. A total...

The Cass Freight Index, which measures shipment activity in trucking and other cargo modes, rose 0.7% in December from a year earlier. The index, published by a St. Louis-based bank, had slipped 2.9%...

DUBLIN -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/79bde3/worlds_7_leading) has announced the addition of the "World's 7 Leading Truck-Makers - Strategic Initiatives, Developments, SWOT, Key Trends & Outlook for 2012" report to their offering. The report...

Associations The Trucking Industry Defense Association recently awarded $20,000 in grants to help fund transportation and trucking programs at four schools. Endowment fund grants of $5,000 each were awarded to the University of...

Brokers and carriers said that the federal Safety Management System, or SMS, that is used to score carrier performance is causing them to lose business by unfairly tainting fleet safety records. Thomas Sanderson,...

Trucking industry mergers and acquisitions are expected to surge this year because of factors such as tight capacity and eager privateequity buyers, several industry experts have said. Some analysts predicted transactions could double...

DUBLIN -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/ac7684/worlds_7_leading) has announced the addition of the "World's 7 Leading Truck-Makers - Key Strategies, Plans, SWOT, Trends & Outlook for 2012" report to their offering. This Strategic report...

November New Business Volume Up by 38 Percent Year-over-year, Down Three Percent Month-to-month, Up 26 Percent YTD WASHINGTON -- The Equipment Leasing and Finance Association's (ELFA) Monthly Leasing and Finance Index (MLFI-25), which...

NEW YORK -- Fitch Ratings assigns an 'AAA' rating to the following Harford County, Maryland bonds: --$55 million consolidated public improvement bonds, series 2012A; --$8.79 million refunding bonds, series 2012B. The bonds are...

Trucking continued to rebuild both freight volumes and profits in 2011 while the general U.S. economic growth crept forward at a slower pace. American Trucking Associations' truck tonnage index illustrated the pattern, approaching...

Registrations of new Class 8 trucks in Canada are climbing slowly out ofthe same hole U.S. truck numbers fell into in 2009. As in the United States, nearly all the new sales are...

Integrated Freight Corp. said it has completed a $3.4 million financing deal for its money-losing Cross Creek Trucking unit with Utica Leaseco to refinance the carrier's tractors and trailers. The Dec. 7 announcement...

For truckers, 2011 was a year full of expectations. Some of them were fulfilled, but many were not. The economy continued to grow, but slowly, and not enough to put a serious dent...

Qualified diesel technicians are getting harder to find, a situation the transportation trade press has lamented for the past decade with headlines such as "Who Will Fix Your Trucks?" Ironically, as the diesel...

Patrick Quinn was a lot of different things to different people. To trucking, he was a leader. Quinn did a lot of things during his professional life, including co-founding and co-managing what has...

Patrick Quinn, 65, a co-founder of the nation's third-largest truckload carrier who rose from a small Nebraska farm to national positions of trucking industry leadership after opting out of a corporate legal career,...

With membership up, the grip of recession loosening and a healthier if leaner budget, American Trucking Associations ends 2011 reflective of the carriers that make up its ranks, ATA President Bill Graves said....