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For the world’s largest manufacturers, transportation services are so complex that not only are third-party logistics providers a necessity, but corporations are increasingly asking outside managers to oversee not just their carriers, but their 3PLs as well.

NEW YORK -- Fed Ex is slicing its capital expenditures and other costs to preserve its earnings during the current economic downturn, but it will not alter its fundamental plans, according to company Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Frederick W. Smith.

Flooding in the upper Mississippi River valley halted barge shipping and interrupted rail traffic but apparently had not forced a substantial change in transportation patterns in trucking’s favor as of late last week.

NAPLES, Fla. - Five disciplined, powerful, high-ranking trucking executives were given an assignment and all of them avoided it. There was just too much selling to do.

NAPLES, Fla. — Some of the nation’s largest shippers stated clearly what they are looking for from their transportation companies: quick access to lots of information about their freight and a commitment to high-quality service that rises above the lackadaisical.

NAPLES, Fla. -- Less hostile appointees to the National Labor Relations Board could help end the dispute between Overnite Transportation and the Teamsters Union, according to the motor carrier's chief executive.

SAN ANTONIO - Truckload carriers closed their 63rd annual meeting here on Wednesday by installing a new chairman and trying to move away from the turbulence of 2000, toward a calmer routine of providing business services for members while the American Trucking Associations takes care of advocacy issues.

In separate appearances, American Trucking Associations leaders spoke at the Truckload Carriers Association's annual meeting in San Antonio. Walter B. McCormick Jr., ATA's president and chief executive officer, discussed the industry's lobbying successes, while ATA Chairman Duane Acklie emphasized that trucking groups have plenty of common ground.

Bush Leasing will emerge from bankruptcy sometime in April, after a March 22 judicial decision approved the company’s reorganization plan.

The sagging stock market and the weak economy have caused two privately held transportation companies to delay plans to offer common stock to the public.