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Ryder System profit and revenue rose year over year in Q2 of 2025, benefiting from supply chain services wins and prices, plus a more stable truck sales, leasing and rental market.
Members of American Trucking Associations’ Women In Motion Council were on Capitol Hill on July 23 to elevate lawmakers’ awareness of the need to expand access to safe truck parking.
Optimism is growing at truck maker Paccar about order levels and demand for new tractors in the second half of 2025 and in 2026, said CEO Preston Feight.
A merger would create a single U.S railroad with service stretching from the East to the West Coast.
The Phoenix-based truckload motor carrier posted net income of $34.2 million, or 21 cents a diluted share, for the three months ending June 30. That was 68.7% higher than last year.
Analysts have speculated that a Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern tie-up could leave the next-biggest companies in the industry — BNSF and CSX — to at least consider their own combinations.
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Trump Presses Powell to Lower Interest Rates During Tour
The pair spoke to reporters while overseeing restoration work being done at the Fed's headquarters, with the president and the central bank leader almost immediately arguing over its cost.
Transport M&A Defies Struggling Market So Far in 2025
This year started off with 250 deals during the first quarter, and then 276 deals in the second quarter, despite market conditions.
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