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The weather is hot, the kids are out of school, baseball has just finished its All-Star Game and freight transportation professionals are thinking about Christmas. It may be the good old summer time, but it is also the start of the busiest shipping season of the year.

Freightliner LLC said Wednesday that it will lay off 1,120 employees at four North American manufacturing plants from July through October.

Trucking company failures continued at a rapid pace during the first quarter of the year, with 1,155 motor carriers going out of business, according to an updated study from investment broker A.G. Edwards & Sons.

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — Trucking companies that go through mergers or acquisitions after June 30 may not account for their expansion as a pooling of interests. Instead, financial personnel must configure their records according to purchase rules.

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — American Trucking Associations will be asked to make reduction of the 12% excise tax on the purchase of new Class 8 tractors and trucks a top priority for its lobbying efforts on Capitol Hill

NEW YORK — Having endured a year-and-a-half of searing competition that produced a raft of hardscrabble balance sheets, some of the nation’s most prominent truckload executives told a investors gathering here that just a bit more perseverance on the part of carriers will result in lavish rewards for both themselves and their financial backers.

NEW YORK – A group of less-than-truckload executives said today that in spite of the poor economy and the expected resistance of shippers, they expect to ask for and receive freight rate increases in the fall.

NEW YORK – Some of the largest names in trucking said this morning they will scrap their systems of purchasing Class 8 tractors in three-year cycles in favor in four- or five-year purchase regimes.

The rising use of lead logistics providers by shippers could increase the total demand for trucking services, according to a number of logistics executives. But, they also say, that could lead to the creation of castes of winners and losers within the industry.

NEW YORK – To save money and stave off operating losses, the U.S. Postal Service is investigating increased usage of less-than-truckload carriage, according to the service's deputy postmaster general.