Swift Transportation said it has agreed to purchase a 49% stake in Trans-Mex Inc., a truckload carrier based in Mexico.

A controversial automated freight payment system initiated last year by the Department of Defense will be the subject of a meeting March 1 between top military transportation officers and American Trucking Associations.

A Tennessee businessman has purchased the trucking fleet of Idahoan Foods in Lewisville, Idaho, and formed a new company, called Golden Valley Transportation, to provide nationwide truckload service.

In the moving and storage industry, if you’re not the hunter, you could become the hunted as a wave of consolidation rolls on.

A month after Asche Transportation Services disclosed an alleged theft by the a top official, the company said it is investigating possible wrongdoing by its chairman, Larry L. Asche, and its president, Diane L. Asche.

A Tennessee businessman has purchased the trucking fleet of Idahoan Foods in Lewisville, Idaho, and formed a new company, called Golden Valley Transportation, to provide nationwide truckload service.

Swift Transportation said it has agreed to purchase a 49% stake in Trans-Mex Inc., a truckload carrier based in Mexico, in an effort to meet the growing demand for freight hauling between the United States and Mexico.

Teamsters and Overnite Transportation representatives last week walked away from their first bargaining sessions in almost five months with no agreements, but both sides said they would meet again on March 7.

Companies that haul containers and trailers from ports and rail terminals — long considered the weakest link in the transportation supply chain — are being targeted in two separate efforts to consolidate local intermodal carriers into national powerhouses.

USFreightways Corp. and Transport Corporation of America last week canceled a planned merger as falling stock prices reduced the value of the transaction.