CSX Corp. said its fourth-quarter profit fell from a year ago, largely due to a non-transportation-related writedown.
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Rail, Intermodal Traffic Fall for Week
Rail and intermodal traffic fell for the week ended Jan. 17 from a year ago, the Association of American Railroads said.
January 22, 2009Senate Panel Approves LaHood as DOT Secretary
A Senate panel Wednesday approved Ray LaHood to be Secretary of Transportation, passing his nomination by President Obama to the full Senate, the New York Times reported.
January 22, 2009Continued Growth of Multi-mode Transport Spurs Information Technology Systems
The information systems that support intermodal trucking companies are much like the business of intermodalism itself: complex, multi-headed and increasingly important to motor carriers.
January 19, 2009EPA Won’t Delay 2010 Engine Rule
A top U.S. Environmental Protection Agency official said last week that the agency has “absolutely no intention” of granting the request by truck and engine manufacturer Navistar Inc. for a two-year delay in implementing 2010 federal diesel emission standards for new heavy trucks.
January 19, 2009TTNews.com to Close for Holiday, Inauguration Day
Transport Topics Online will be closed Monday, Jan. 19, for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and Tuesday, Jan. 20, due to the presidential inauguration. Please check back on Wednesday, Jan. 21, for the latest trucking and freight transportation news.
January 16, 2008EPA Pick Is ‘Open’ to Carbon Tax
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator-designate Lisa Jackson said she was “open to discussion” of a carbon tax to limit greenhouse gas emissions and would immediately begin a review of the Bush administration’s denial of California’s request to regulate those emissions from automobiles.
January 16, 2009Rail, Intermodal Traffic Decline for Week
Rail and intermodal traffic fell for the week ended Jan. 10 from a year ago, the Association of American Railroads said.
January 16, 2009Opinion: Assault on Independents Threatens Trucking
If you wanted to shore up a beleaguered industry, would you do it by creating a new threat? Of course not, but that’s exactly what some U.S. policymakers seem ready to do to the already devastated U.S. trucking industry.
January 13, 2009DOT Freight Transport Index Drops 2.4% in November
The Department of Transportation’s freight transportation services index fell 2.4% in November from a year earlier, DOT said Wednesday.
January 14, 2009