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Schneider National Inc. is putting Christopher B. Lofgren, its chief technology and logistics officer, in charge of its North American trucking operations.

Federal regulators and industry lobbyists could soon be clashing over mandatory driver training, but for now trucking’s leaders worry while government officials remain mum.

A proposal to allow drivers under age 21 to operate trucks in interstate commerce — if well-trained — appears to be losing momentum.

Freight brokers — the people who arrange for air, rail, ocean and truck transportation — have always walked a tightrope in their efforts to serve the needs of shippers and carriers.

Wall Street is sending a signal to non-asset-based transportation companies: Give us more.

Four months after the collapse of AmeriTruck Distribution Corp., Ronald Damico is still picking up the pieces.

Eliminating sexual harassment in the workplace is a joint goal of the Motor Freight Carriers Association and the Teamsters as they develop an industrywide training program, aided by a $100,000 grant from the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service.

Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. appealed a Surface Transportation Board moratorium on railroad mergers that would delay for more than a year consideration of the carrier’s proposed consolidation with Canadian National Railway.

Silver Eagle Co., a unionized less-than-truckload carrier, closed its doors March 16, ending 70 years of service in the Pacific Northwest.

Week by week, some of the lifeblood of the trucking industry is being drained away to the coffers of the oil-exporting nations that, through sheer happenstance, sit on deep pools of crude.