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FedEx founder Frederick Smith’s son Richard Smith is rising through the ranks at the Memphis-based company.

Motorists who once scoured American roadways for Exxon’s tiger or Texaco’s star now search for Buc-ee’s beaver or Wawa’s Canada goose. And millennials value the quality of food in their gas stations just as much as the price at the pump.

More than a quarter of King County, Washington’s concrete delivery-truck drivers have gone on strike, and the rest could soon join them — threatening to delay dozens of projects amid the region’s record construction boom.

FedEx Corp. has filled a key leadership post, naming Mark Allen to succeed Christine Richards Oct. 1 as executive vice president, general counsel and secretary.

While the growth of e-commerce is widely viewed as a boon for last-mile deliveries, customer returns of the merchandise that’s delivered also are forcing change across carriers’ and shippers’ supply chains, industry experts said.

Roadrunner Transportation Systems has agreed to sell its Unitrans Inc. subsidiary to Quick International Courier for $95 million in cash.

How will the ELD mandate affect fleets' bottom lines? On our Aug. 23 LiveOnWeb program 'The ELD Landscape Ahead,' TT Managing Editor/Features Seth Clevenger presented the perspectives of a regulator, a fleet executive and a logistics expert. Watch the replay.

U.S. trucks moved more than 70% of the nation’s freight last year, and the companies that owned those vehicles employed 7.4 million people, according to a new publication from American Trucking Associations.

FedEx chief Frederick Smith’s annual letter to shareholders credits three I’s — investments, integration and innovation — for exceptional results in fiscal 2017 and the promise of even better future performance.